As reported a few weeks ago the Council told us the feasibility report would be available a week before they meet to decide the future of the Bryn. We asked if it could be made available sooner as we were concerned 'it would be impossible for us review, share, assess and evaluate your feasibility study in the one week time frame you are allowing us'.
The council replied:-
Many thanks for your email in which you request that the feasibility study be made available at least 3 weeks prior to the meeting on the 23rdNovember.
I have discussed this here this morning with the Countryside and Rights of Way Manager, and unfortunately we are not able to meet your request.
It is quite normal for committee papers etc to be sent out a few days prior to meetings, and that is what our timescales will allow. If, at the meeting, the view of members is that they don’t feel they have had sufficient time to digest the contents of the report, then a further meeting can always be arranged. However the week prior to the meeting should give all individual members of the group (including of course your BE Users Assoc rep) time to read the report and highlight key issues. There will be plenty of opportunity at the meeting itself for clarification of points and addressing queries.
We will aim to have the report in a format that you can email out, which should save you plenty of time getting it out to members.
Anyone would have thought the huge turn out at the cricket club objecting to the proposed grazing would have been enough for the council to abandon their crazy plans but still they plod on with the producing the feasibility report. Now, it seems we may not get a decision at the November meeting and a further meeting can be arranged! What a waste of peoples time, this group only meets twice a year normally, does this mean we all have to wait till then for a final decision?
Perhaps the council feel by dragging it out people will get bored?
I think both Dave Jones MP and Darren Millar AM asked the council at the cricket club meeting to ensure there was enough time to consult adequately once the feasibility report was published. A week doesn't really seem enough does it?
Lets hope it's a meaningful report which answers the questions regarding the need for planning permission and the legal issues as well as the huge objections against. If so then the conclusion must be to forget about the plans for grazing?
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I hope the council will put as much time into listening to the views of the people who use Bryn Euryn as they are in doing this unwanted feasibility study! The council are dangerously close to alienating any confidence local people have privalaged them with up to now. I suggest they back down graciously before all the already stressed locals become angry.
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