27 April (Part 1) - Where next?
Now that we have reason to believe that
Bexley’s Planning
Committee is compromised by its close relationship with the borough’s best
known property developer, should we be looking for more such liaisons?
It was suggested that I look at Perminder Singh Kang who
nominated the Conservative candidates in Erith.
He runs BSD Ventures Limited from his address at 106 Bexley Road, Erith and its business is
“Buying, selling and managing real estate on a fee or contract basis”.
106 Bexley Road is locally listed and a House of Multiple Occupation with plans for 16 apartments
to be built on the site. (21/03064/FULM.)
There is of course one very big difference between Mr. Kang and Mr. Singh.
Perminder Kang is not obviously best mates with the Vice-Chairman of the Planning Committee
with a string of questionable planning applications (and
non-applications!) and H&SE infringements
behind him. You can’t go around banning property developers from joining
political parties. What next? Publicans can’t risk meeting a member of the
Licensing Committee or cycling club leaders being able to directly influence the Transport Committee?
Oh, better not go there!
What else is going on? Not a lot. For the record I eventually convinced my
energy provider that the Smart Meter display unit that they call an
IHD did not
calculate costs correctly, or even close. It is much better now. The gas readings seem
to be exactly right but electricity costs are still over-estimated for ְ‘today’ but when
the figures are dumped into the History folder they magically correct themselves.
Octopus have said they are still learning and grateful
for the bug reports but I remain puzzled by the fact that they are tweaking
a individual IHD and not running standard software on them all. I got my total
consumption down to £1·56 yesterday and it’s really not been all that that
difficult. No children is probably a good place to start. More seriously the eleven
year old solar panels are proving to be one of the best investments ever and yesterday was a sunny day.
I have a feeling there was something else. Another senior moment!