Cabinet fails to ratify rebellion over conservation rules
Friday, 13th September 2013.
Haverhill Area Working Party may have surprised everyone, including St Edmundsbury Borough Council officers, by refusing to agree a proposal to axe conservation regulations in Haverhill to save money, but the borough’s cabinet has stopped short of ratifying it.
The decision was a recommendation from the working party and when the cabinet met on Tuesday, members deferred a decision on the issue.
They want to find out more about whether a partial axe of the regulations may be possible, although it is unclear exactly what that would mean.
The council wanted to end the Article 4 Directions, which remove the right of property owners to make external changes to their homes in the town’s two conservation areas, such as windows, doors and paintwork, without the approval of planners.
Members of the working party were told there was not the staff at St Edmundsbury to monitor the issue, although Article 4 Directions are being expanded in Bury St Edmunds.
Members were generally fed up with the council failing to take action against people who broke planning conditions and regulations and refused to agree to the proposal, which they saw as aimed at saving money which would not benefit Haverhill.
The cabinet, however, which normally rubber-stamps recommendations of the working party, is still trying to find a way of achieving the savings.
The decision was a recommendation from the working party and when the cabinet met on Tuesday, members deferred a decision on the issue.
They want to find out more about whether a partial axe of the regulations may be possible, although it is unclear exactly what that would mean.
The council wanted to end the Article 4 Directions, which remove the right of property owners to make external changes to their homes in the town’s two conservation areas, such as windows, doors and paintwork, without the approval of planners.
Members of the working party were told there was not the staff at St Edmundsbury to monitor the issue, although Article 4 Directions are being expanded in Bury St Edmunds.
Members were generally fed up with the council failing to take action against people who broke planning conditions and regulations and refused to agree to the proposal, which they saw as aimed at saving money which would not benefit Haverhill.
The cabinet, however, which normally rubber-stamps recommendations of the working party, is still trying to find a way of achieving the savings.
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