I'm not going to argue that political whipping has completely disappeared from the planning process.
Like Clapham Gull, I don't think this is the time to open up old wounds, but the thing that annoyed me most about Ann de Vecchi's behaviour wasn't her opposition to the stadium, it was the...
No they don't. The law on Planning decisions is that councillors must take their decisions on planning grounds, not party policy.
If party policy was the driving factor, how come some of the members of the majority group on the City Council failed to vote for the stadium?
And if anyone wants to read the Report that is being considered by the Committee, it's here:-
http://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/Published/C00000118/M00001351/$$ADocPackPublic.pdf
All 608 pages and 11MB of it.
The Stadium part of the report starts on page 65 of the pdf. - the page that is...