First Periodic Minerals Review Suspended

Man of Action Posted on July 11, 2013 Posted in News

Doncaster MBC has agreed to postpone the review of conditions attached to permission to extract peat from Hatfield Moor. Pearson Planning, Chartered Surveyors applied for a postponement until November 2018. The Council accepted the rational behind the request. The vast majority of the Moor is now run by Natural England as a NNR. Pearson Planning argued that until the Council completes its Appropriate Assessment, and agrees appropriate compensation to it’s client, conditions should remain unchanged. The Moor supports a manufacturing plant, and local jobs.

Edinburgh, 12 November, and Ivan McKee MSP announced to the national assembly that work on introducing a Community Infrstructure Levy in Scotland is “stopped”. Ivan ‘the terrible’ McKee recognised that the Levy was not welcome. There is a general acceptance, too, that much needed house building is being stalled by disproportionate obligation demands, and as Ivan says “unpredictable, costly and lengthy” planning application processes. McKee, branded ‘the terrible’ because of His handling of public finances north of the Cheviots, offers only one solution: higher planning fees! Genius! Increasing (again) authority revenues is not the solution. The vast majority of applications are determined by individual Officers (many of which have no professional qualifications) without the right of appeal. This needs to stop. SNP Government spending for 2023-2024 had a negative fiscal balance of -£22 billion. This must stop.