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by Lib Dem team on 17 June, 2010
The next Cheadle Area Committee will be held at Ladybridge Park Residents Club, Edenbridge Road, Cheadle Hulme starting at 6pm on Tuesday 22nd June 2010. You can download the (unusually short at only 61 pages) agenda here.
As always, the meeting is not only open to the public, but we really want more people to come along. You can turn up late if you like, and you can ask questions of the police, council and councillors (though where there’s no agenda item the question fits into, it needs to be submitted in advance – you can send it by email to stephen.fox@stockport.gov.uk if you like.
Tuesday’s agenda includes
Then we have the planning applications. These are quasi-judicial, which means there are rules we follow and a set way things are done to ensure the outcome is fair.
This time round councillors will be considering:
In all cases with planning applications, councillors have (by law) to go into the meeting with an open mind and listen fairly to the arguments. Our task is not to decide whether we fancy having the development, or whether its popular. Our task is simply – again by law – to decide whether the development is within the rules and guidelines as set down in the Council’s Unitary Development Plan.
If we refuse an application, the developer can appeal and – if successful – the Council pays lots of money for the appeal costs and the development goes ahead anyway, so it’s worth getting it right.
2 Comments
I have to agree that the planning application for 9 wilmslow road should be declined, we have a host of cafes and take-aways in cheadle already, there really is no need for another one!
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kath
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