Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:David Tennant's application to build house extension | |
Posted by: | Francis Rowe | |
Date/Time: | 11/11/15 11:26:00 |
Adam, I am hesitant to suggest you might be wrong about anything to do with planning and that David Tennant isn't necessarily mistaken in not doing what you would have recommended but you seem to be attempting the mould the facts here to make your case. Mr Tennant cannot have been unaware that his intervention at the meeting would have attracted media attention. If he wanted a low profile his wife could have addressed the meeting and, as a former actress, have made the case just as powerfully. He seems to have been advised that putting the spotlight on his application could help it get through. If this is the calculation it seems to be working. In no way has the press coverage presented him as having had a hissy fit, in fact it is generally positive. It is not been presented as a celeb demanding that he gets what he wants but as a father asking for some consideration for his family. The calculation seems to be that when people become aware of just how ridiculous it is to reject his appeal Hounslow Council will become conscious that they have a PR disaster on their hands. If his application is rejected the story will be about how power-crazed bureaucrats and small-minded nimbys combined to force a family out of the area. Are you seriously suggesting the prospect of this won't weigh heavily on the planning committee considering this application? |