Plans with Council for New Westwood Housing Estate

Plans for the Westwood Bland cabbage patch development, are now with the local council. These were registered with the council on 24th May, with a decision by the council on or after 23rd August.

Clearly this is the only consultation that matters, if you attended the well publicised consultation that was held at Westwood Cross this was possibly little more than a public relations exercise. You may well have had, a copy of the leaflet that was handed out asking for comment, on the development, this was to be returned to The Development Planning Partnership (DPP), naive as I am I checked out their website as I invariably do, and discovered to my disappointment, that the role of DPP was not quite as impartial as I thought.

DPP make the following observations on their website, "We can help you obtain that valuable planning permission" "help you secure a favourable land allocation in the relevant local plan" "it pays to use an expert to maximise the chances of success"

So if you're happy to be stuck in traffic around Westwood, then don't go to the planning office and asked to see the application TH 060650, or write into the planning office with your objections to this plan.

The developers seemed so proud of the planned development, you would have thought that they would have publicised with as much effort there submission for outline planning on this project as they did with the consultation.

Now finally the developers plans are in line with the local master plan, but pause for thought, wasn't there a plan for an offshore art gallery once.