The refusal of planning permission is stated in this document:
http://www.wealden.gov.uk/moderngov/Published/C00000303/M00002500/AI00022812/$082516.docA.ps.pdf
Para 6 only lists the telephone numbers of the 'team leader' and 'case officer' involved. Uniquely amongst the posted list of councillors, Councillor Ms Barby Dashwood-Hall, the chairman of the development control south sub-committee, declines to provide any contact details....... Although it would appear to be
[email protected] from a cached source.
The Sun today reports:
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears demanded an urgent re-think after they banned Joe Townsend from building a specially-adapted bungalow.
Last night furious Ms Blears stepped into the row and declared: “Heroes deserve much better than this.”
She has no power to over-rule the decision by Wealden District Council.
But she called on planners to reconsider Joe’s application which is unopposed by neighbours in Hankham, East Sussex. Ms Blears said: “It’s a heartless decision.”
Perhaps e-mails in support of Hazel Blears should be sent to Ms B Dashwood-Hall at the e-mail address listed for her in the
Hellingly Parish Council website - with an apology for using a private e-mail address, since her official Wealden District Council e-mail address is, curiously, currently missing?