1 June - If at first you don’t succeed…
Not for the first time, plans for the 1st of the month have fallen apart at
the last moment. Somehow I had got the idea that one of the bigger local
developments was up
for discussion at last week’s Planning meeting but when I got around to looking
at the detail yesterday I discovered that what I was looking forward to was not there.
As far as I could judge from the fuzzy webcast Chairman Peter Reader was
not assisted by the previous Vice-Chairman Councillor Brian Bishop
who is now irredeemably associated with with
the demolition of Bexley’s oldest pub. The video
was never good enough to read the nameplate associated with the empty chair and the Agenda omits to say
who was there.
However it was possible to discern a few new faces in attendance, Councillor Ball for Labour,
Frazer Brooks and presumably because there was a presentation that concerned Crayford, Felix Di Netimah.
(Both Conservative.) What expertise they bring to the Committee is open to conjecture.
When I last drove along Woolwich Road about two weeks ago I noted that
95a was
being prepared for development. I couldn’t stop for a photo at the time
because of the fear of assault
but a new planning application (22/01325/FUL) for that address has been submitted
and dated 25th May endorsed with the signed statement that work has not yet started.
Which may strictly speaking be true.
It is the 4th application within the past year.