The most significant development is that Brentwood Council's planning officers published their report last week and have referred the application to the Planning Committee with a recommendation that it be approved. so the decision will now be taken by the committee at their meeting on Tuesday evening.
There are all kinds of inconsistencies and weaknesses in the officers' report, and letters have been sent to the Planning Committee members pointing this out and setting out all the reasons and all the legal precedents which mean that this development cannot be allowed to go ahead in the Green Belt.
Our campaign has attracted interest from the both the Green Party and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, both of whom have been to see the proposed site and have now made representations to Brentwood Council objecting to the proposed destruction of the Green Belt and the impact that the development would have on the Grade II listed building next door.
In a letter to the Brentwood Gazette, the GP, Dr Butler, has attempted unsuccessfully to refute the suggestion that he is a commercial enterprise trying to expand his business at the expense of the Green Belt and has again implied that if he doesn't get planning permission he'll shut up shop and leave altogether. As one of my neighbours said in a letter to the Gazette this week, this makes Dr Butler sound "rather like a child throwing his toys out of the pram because he can't get his own way".
I'll post some more in-depth info on the officers' report later on if I get a chance, but first I need to go and work out what I'm going to say in my three minute speech to the Planning Committee on Tuesday evening.
Meanwhile, if you want to help stop the destruction of the Green Belt, it's not too late to add your name to the online petition at www.doddinghurstsurgery.com. If you haven't signed already, please go and do it now!
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