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Outraged at flats plan

4:30pm Monday 22nd December 2008 in


I was outraged to discover that Chorley Borough Council had granted planning permission for two-storey flats to be built on the Edna Shone memorial green at the junction of Chorley Road and Daisy Hill Drive.

I was even more enraged to discover how this had come about.

The person who owns this land decides he’ll apply to the council for planning permission to build flats on it.

The planning proposal is posted to see if there are any objections to the flats.

Several local residents, some who will be directly affected by this building, object for several reasons, everything from the fact that it will create a dangerous blind junction, the ground is unstable because there are old cellars under it, a new building will not be in keeping with the existing buildings, the list goes on.

Even all three local MPs object.

But in spite of all the weight of local objection, the planning application goes straight from the planning officer to the chairman, bypassing the planning committee, even though local MPs asked for a committee hearing, and it is passed by the pen stroke of one man.

Call this a democratic decision, what’s going on at Chorley council.

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