SHAME WAS THE WORD MOST HEARD AS 429 HOMES PASSED ON A CHAIRMAN'S VOTE WITH SPECTRES OF THE 'SMALL ARMS' LOOMING LARGE ALMOST A DECADE TO THE DAY (PASSED TO SIMILAR CALLS ON A CASTING VOTE)
NOW ENFIELD CLRS HAVE SOLD THE LAST OF THE LOCK & NOT EVEN FOR THE TRADITIONAL 30 PIECES OF SILVER BUT FOR PENNIES. SHAME!
YOU CAME, WATCHED & SHOUTED 'SHAME' - JOINED BY RESIDENTS & CLRS FROM ACROSS ENFIELD - APPALLED AT THE FIASCO ADVERTISED AS DEMOCRACY & THE WORD WHICH BEST SUMMED UP THE MOOD SPREAD AROUND THE ROOM.
BUT FIRST: TO 'LOCK' CLR RUTH HONES(C) & DINO LEMONIDES(L) (WHO JOINED BETH PEDDER IN DELIVERING BRILLIANT SPEECHES ON OUR BEHALF) - 'IT WAS NOT THE SPEAKING THAT WAS LACKING BUT THE HEARING' – THE ROOM STOOD & APPLAUDED - THANK YOU.
TO CLR ANDREAS CONSTANTINIDES WHO ROSE TO THE OCCASION & BECAME A ONE MAN LABOUR OPPOSITION & TO THE 3 VALLIANT CONSERVATIVES - PEARCE, LAMPRECHT & FORD WHO ACTED PROPERLY IN OUR BEST INTERESTS & NOT THE DEVELOPER'S – RESIDENTS APPLAUD YOU & DID ON THE NIGHT - THE ROOM STOOD FOR YOU & RIGHTLY SO. THANK YOU.
AS FOR THE REST OF OUR EXPENSIVE & DISPENSABLE COMMITTEE; THEY DIDN'T SPEAK (SOME HAVING TRIED TO STOP ANYONE SPEAKING) - KEPT QUIET WHEN THEY COULD HAVE SPOKEN - WITHHELD INFORMATION NOT CORRECTING LIES - DECIDED NOT TO ASK QUESTIONS (WHILE THE FEW FOUGHT TO GET ANSWERS) & SOME DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO VOTE!
AS SOON AS THE ITEM STARTED TOBY SIMON (HE MET YOU AT THE MP’S COFFEE MORNING) DECLARED AN 'INTENTION TO ABSTAIN' IN UNSEEMLY HASTE (BUT LATER SPOKE FOR APPROVAL) - SWIFTLY FOLLOWED BY ROBERT HAYWARD PROPOSING A VOTE FOR APPROVAL (REMEMBER NO DEBATE YET) WHICH FORMER LOCK CLR JONAS HALL TRIED TO SECOND – CLR HENRY 'THE WAVER' LAMPERCHT WITH PAPERS IN HAND STOOD & WAVED IT DECLARING OVER HALL THAT HE “HAD PPS1 & WE MUST REGARD IT” – HALL & HAYWARD WERE STOPPED & THE ROOM ROARED APPROVAL (FEW KNEW QUITE WHAT PPS1 WAS BUT ALL THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT USE OF GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION).
QUESTIONS FROM ANNE-MARIE PEARCE FOLLOWED ‘THE WAVER’ & WERE DENIED THE ASKING & NEVER ANSWERED – HER RESOLVE STRENGTHENED WITH EVERY BULLYING REPLY & WITH OLD HAND ANDREAS CONSTANTINIDES STRUGGLING TO GET EVEN A SINGLE REPLY TO HIS REPEATED CONCERNS & QUESTIONS THE AUDIENCE (AS IT HAD BECOME) ROSE & APPLAUDED AT ALMOST EVERY WORD THEY SAID.
THEN OFFICERS & CHAIRMAN SHOUTED DOWN THE 3 STALWARTS - VOTING BEGAN & TO MUTTERING - JEERS & CALLS OF ‘SHAME’& WITH NOT A QUESTION BETWEEN THEM – HAYWARD & HALL (APPEARING JOLLY) & ADAMS & FALLART VOTED FOR IT.
PEARCE & LAMPRECHT & FORD VOTED AGAINST & THE ROOM STOOD IN APPLAUSE & WITH THE VOTE 4 IN FAVOUR & 3 AGAINST THE ROOM HELD ITS BREATH WAITING TO SEE IF LABOUR WOULD JOIN THE FIGHT & THEY DID IN THE LONE FORM OF ANDREAS CONSTANTINIDES (LABOUR PLANNING LEAD) WHO PUT HIS HAND UP WITH THE LONE 3 CONSERVATIVES & KEPT IT UP - THE ROOM STOOD & ROARED APPROVAL.
THE ABSTAINERS IN THE FORM OF SIMON & PIPE ABSTAINED (OFTEN CONSIDERED A COWARDLY ACTION) & THE 'DO NOTHING GANG' OF HASSAN & ROBINSON DID NOTHING - (JUST SAT THERE - WE WORRIED THEY HAD EXPIRED). IT WAS A LOT OF THINGS - A PLANNING COMMITTEE - DEMOCRATIC OR TRANSPARENT IT WASN'T.
FINALLY CHAIRMAN MARTIN PRESCOTT(C) WITHOUT HAVING ASKED A SINGLE QUESTION & HAVING BERATED MEMBERS THROUGHOUT AGAINST A REFUSAL REPEATING OVER & OVER THAT THE ‘DEVELOPER WILL APPEAL & YOU MAY NOT REFUSE’ & DESPITE THE MAJORITY OF MEMBERS NOT HAVING VOTED FOR IT TOOK AN AMUSED 5 SECOND PAUSE BEFORE PASSING IT - SHAME!
THE ROOM ERUPTED - A BREAK WAS CALLED - SOME CLRS FLED THE SCENE & OTHERS LAUGHED (RESIDENTS WERE APPALLED - WE GAVE THEM THEIR NAMES).
OH & SOME OF THEM WEREN'T EVEN THERE PERHAPS THE SAFER OPTION? - CLRS MCGREGOR - BRETT & BUCKLAND & ANWAR.
TOTAL MEMBERS ON PLANNING 17. PRESENT ON THE NIGHT 13. VOTES FOR APPROVAL 5 (C). AGAINST 4 (3C/1L). ABSTENTIONS 2 (1C/1L) . 'DO NOTHING GANG' 2 (L)
*MORE DETAILS ON 'WHO DID WHAT' & 'INNOVA Q & A'S' - ELAG SPEECH & OBJECTIONS 1-9 IN 'LIBRARY'
