Planning Matters Too
Onwards. I leave the building chatting with the Residents' rep on the LAP. He is very happy and positive with his choice to relocate into the heart of things three years ago. And his partner has an eight-minute commute against the main flow.
I go back into the Town Hall planning section and do a careful search on a particular site in South Manchester. Stories have been emerging of a planned demolition of a century old landmark. Not listed or protected. Not in a conservation area. And as part of the Tory legacy which New Labour have neglected to repeal or amend demolition can proceed without any sort of permission.
Eventually, hiding among more than a dozen decisions on the computer stretching back for more than 20 years, I find an outline permission which still has some six months to run in its five year term. Close enough to what's now planned to be revived.
There's not long. I ask for the drawings to be pulled out of the archive which may take a few days. And I take the details of the Conservation Officers. I will also involve the Victorian Society and the local paper.
Councillor Neil Swannick from Bradford ward passes through with a greeting as I rattle through the papers for this week's planning meeting. Two controversies in the minutes. Co-op Gate where various Co-op Party and United Co-op members have been barred from voting on a Co-op Funeral related matter. And plans to build in the flood plain in Didsbury. Not much on in the new cycle. More residential developments just North of the City Centre in Ancoats being the highlight.
Onwards to Manchester Fayre to check prices for banquets and functions. Then off to Eighth Day to collect lunch and grab an 86 bus home.
In an hour I'm off for a meeting with the Big Hands team.
I go back into the Town Hall planning section and do a careful search on a particular site in South Manchester. Stories have been emerging of a planned demolition of a century old landmark. Not listed or protected. Not in a conservation area. And as part of the Tory legacy which New Labour have neglected to repeal or amend demolition can proceed without any sort of permission.
Eventually, hiding among more than a dozen decisions on the computer stretching back for more than 20 years, I find an outline permission which still has some six months to run in its five year term. Close enough to what's now planned to be revived.
There's not long. I ask for the drawings to be pulled out of the archive which may take a few days. And I take the details of the Conservation Officers. I will also involve the Victorian Society and the local paper.
Councillor Neil Swannick from Bradford ward passes through with a greeting as I rattle through the papers for this week's planning meeting. Two controversies in the minutes. Co-op Gate where various Co-op Party and United Co-op members have been barred from voting on a Co-op Funeral related matter. And plans to build in the flood plain in Didsbury. Not much on in the new cycle. More residential developments just North of the City Centre in Ancoats being the highlight.
Onwards to Manchester Fayre to check prices for banquets and functions. Then off to Eighth Day to collect lunch and grab an 86 bus home.
In an hour I'm off for a meeting with the Big Hands team.
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