Efforts by local residents to use the democratic process to pin down the planners over the highwalks and bridges have come to nought. A motion passed by the 2008 Aldersgate Wardmote seeking a policy review, and agreed by the Planning Committee, has been shelved.
The City planning department are claiming that because there is no scheme proposed at the moment for any site affecting the highwalks (and St. Alphage in particular) and that there is a existing policy to support the highwalks that there is no urgent need for such a policy. This is disingenuous as the existence of the policy didn't keep affect the City's support for the Milton Court and St. Alphage proposals so clearly the guidance needs to be made more explicit
Another reason why you should elect Labour Party Common Councillors who know how to hold committee chairs and officers to account.
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