| Topic: | List of exempted properties | |
| Posted by: | Paul Pryce | |
| Date/Time: | 27/11/14 09:14:00 |
| Gail, the same principle would apply whether it is streets or individual properties. Ask the Council for the full list so you can review it. If they give it to you they have probably made a reasonable effort to apply the rules fairly. If they say no they probably have something to hide and more properties in favoured wards will have been exempted with no consistent rule applied. If you do a Freedom of Information request they will have to send it for you. Once you have it you could either use Google Street view to check out a random sample of properties across the borough to see if their exemption is consistent with the Glebe Estate's inclusion or put the list in the public domain and 'crowd source' information about how exempted streets compare to non-exempted ones. If the Dan Murphy conspiracy theory is right, which I'm not discounting, you will find a pattern in which different standards are applied in Labour controlled wards. Quite what you would do then, I'm not sure, but at least you would have caught them in the act. On the other hand, if the policy has been applied even-handedly across the borough you might just have to accept that the Council had a difficult decision to make and you were unfortunate to be on the wrong end of it. |