Public Inquiries

Gemini · Post by **Gemini** » 25 Mar 2005, 08:34

Why hold a PI at the Taxpayers expense, when the Executive can just dismiss its findings.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=317052005

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 25 Mar 2005, 11:09

So that all parties can report solemnly that 'due process' was achieved and that the planning process had successfully engaged with the local community

It's part of the same picture that lets developers put in application after application after application until they get a consent.

It's a part of the planning system that has become tailored to suit the 'professionals' on each 'side' and that completely steamrollers individual citizens, despite the best efforts of a lot of individual planning officers.

It's a complete nonsense.

(and that's despite what I said re Masterplanning - the mix just isn't right)

dccairns · Post by **dccairns** » 25 Mar 2005, 20:34

Totally agree with the above...it makes a complete mockery of the system. The MSP for Glasgow Cathcart was unable to give a cogent reply when asked on Newsnight Scotland last night why they had gone to the trouble and public expence of a public inquiry when they were going to overrule the result anyway. They should be called to account or, better still, Nichol Steven, or whoever made the decision, should be made to pay the cost of the inquiry out of his own pocket.

scossie5 · Post by **scossie5** » 26 Mar 2005, 11:19

Two Jobs Jackson made a great statement on Politics Now: 'well of course they're (politicians) going to ignore the consultant's report'.

How gratifying.