The Battle for Broxhead Common
The Case for Hampshire County Council – PART 34
- 6th February 2009 is the date of a letter from HCC’s Executive Member for Efficiency, Performance and Rural Policy, Cllr. Raymond J. Ellis in reply to mine of 12th December 2008.
2009 From Cllr Ray Ellis re Order 54 to Cradle Lane27022021 - The letter is incomprehensible in that it speaks of the need for a full and proper debate as if that has not already taken place previously through the Planning Inspectorate and the Order confirmed.
- 14th February 2009 I respond by email asking for further clarification of the points he was making and ask why they are disregarding HCC’s own policy.
2009 Feb. Reply to Cllr Ray Ellis16022021 - 23rd February 2009. I receive an exact copy of his previous letter. No help there then.
2009 Letter from Cllr Ray Ellis 23.2.09 - March 2009 I am contacted by the Planning Inspectorate. They tell me that HCC are objecting to their own Order and ask how I would like to proceed. I suggest that a Local Hearing would be more than sufficient as I cannot see the need for yet another full Public Inquiry.
- 3rd April 2009 is the date of a letter from the Planning Inspectorate. It appears that HCC are insisting on another Public Inquiry and asking me if I will present the case at that Public Inquiry.
2009 Planning Inspectorate to MC17022021 - I had done this twelve years before when the Creation Order restored the link in the bridleway network with BW54. On that occasion HCC had taken a neutral stance so I reluctantly agreed.
- I also asked PINS what reason the HCC had given for their objection to their Order for the bridleway but was told I should ask them.
- I had already asked but informed that the reason was too complicated a matter to discuss in public, so I had no option but to agree a written reply which of course was never forthcoming.
Next time: A very unpleasant experience and a set-up