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Hastings Development Management Plan Proposed Submission Version

Representation ID: 5343

Received: 09/04/2013

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Development Management Plan has no provision for HBC enforcement to pro-actively intervene to enforce control or prevent offences against ecology, wildlife, woodlands.

Presently, like Pilate washing hands, whatever safeguards and conditions written into planning permissions, offences are deemed to fall outside HBC's purview or remit;

e.g. 05/06/2012 unlawful felling of listed bat-roosts required an ecologist to be present. HBC exculpation typified by mantras;

"responsibility of the applicant"...

"if offences committed complain to Sussex Police WLO"... [WLO ignored evidence; sought HBC guidance].

Deferring abused ecology conditions as matters outside HBC's enforcement purview is obfuscation, toothless complicity in offences.

Full text:

Development Management Plan has no provision for HBC enforcement to pro-actively intervene to enforce control or prevent offences against ecology, wildlife, woodlands.

Presently, like Pilate washing hands, whatever safeguards and conditions written into planning permissions, offences are deemed to fall outside HBC's purview or remit;

e.g. 05/06/2012 unlawful felling of listed bat-roosts required an ecologist to be present. HBC exculpation typified by mantras;

"responsibility of the applicant"...

"if offences committed complain to Sussex Police WLO"... [WLO ignored evidence; sought HBC guidance].

Deferring abused ecology conditions as matters outside HBC's enforcement purview is obfuscation, toothless complicity in offences.