Watch the public criticisms of the Issues and Options Paper
Watch the webcast
http://www.guildford.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_inteWractive/123800
There have been no less than FIVE petitions organised by members of the public to protest at different elements of Guildford Borough Council’s (GBC’s) local plan process.
If a petition gets more than 500 subscribers then the Petitioner is granted 10 minutes to address the council and up to ten others may speak for 3 minutes each.
All of these petitions received well over 500 votes and most were stopped soon after the 500 threshold was crossed. This is an indication of the strength of feeling and level or concern generated by the local plan process.
Extraordinary Meeting of GBC on 13 January, 2014
This meeting was held to hear two petitions:
Keep West Horsley in the Green Belt And
The webcast of the meeting is at:
http://www.guildford.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/123800
Watch the public speakings presenting their cases in three minutes each.
If you are pressed for time just listen to the speeches made by the petition organisers and take 10 minutes to listen to the speeches by Mr Mark Payne, Dr Peter Shaw and Mr Ben Patton.
You will be left in no doubt that the local plan is a mess.
| Time in webcast | Speaker | comment |
| 2:12:23 | Mr Jules Cranwell | Petition organiser: Keep West Horsley in the Green Belt |
| 2:19:42 | Mrs Karen Stevens | Petition organiser: Save the Hog’s Back |
| 00:36:07 | Mr Robert Burch | Resident: Critique of University’s building plans |
| 00:39:34 | Mr Tom Stevens | Lack of road infrastructure: unacceptable congestion |
| 00:43:00 | Mr Martin Dowland | No justificaton to change the Green Belt boundary at Manor Farm again |
| 00:46:03 | Mr Peter Elliott | Save the Hog’s Back: environmental vandalism |
| 00:49:35 | Mr Tim Harrold | Council for the Protection of Rural England |
| 00:53:12 | Mr Ramsey Nagaty | Resident of Hog’s Back |
| 00:57:00 | Mr Mark Payne | Resident: Broken promises(Must listen to this. It is brilliant) |
| 01:00:33 | Mrs Susan Parker | Guildford Green Belt Group: |
| 01:04:23 | Mr Tony Thompson | |
| 01:08:13 | Dr Peter Shaw | Resident: Statistics distorted by students(Must listen to this. It is brilliant) |
| 01:11:22 | Mr Ben Patton | Resident: ‘This document is not fit for purpose’(Must listen to this. It is brilliant) |
See the list of petitions on GBC’s website here:
