Thursday 29 August 2013

Open letter to the Director of Planning and Transport

Dear Mr Trigwell,Following the article in the Chronicle about Stall 36 (Aug 8th) and subsequent letters, many readers have contacted me to ask why the Council is in dispute with us when they see that our stall is not significantly different to many others. When I tell them that you personally have written to me to say that many of the other stalls either do no harm in planning terms, or are freestanding and therefore require no listed building consent, but that you still insist that ours is too enclosed and not sufficiently like an outdoor market stall, they are astonished. When I also explain that several councillors and our MP have all asked you to take enforcement action against us in line with  the Council's own Planning Enforcement Policy, but that you have refused to do this, or to explain with reference to the legislation why you believe I have committed a criminal offence, they shake their heads in utter disbelief.

It is now three years since your staff raised these ridiculous allegations - three years in which you have threatened my livelihood on a daily basis. The time has come to either make your case and carry out enforcement action or admit you and your staff were wrong, and then do the decent thing and resign.

Yours sincerely,
Robert Morgan

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