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Boosbeck slaughterhouse it stinks!
ahead of its published target date for the decision of 4th November and almost 100 written objections were submitted. BASH is aggrieved and outraged that the council then moved its target decision date forward to Monday 17th October – the very next working day after the public meeting. Mark Belch said: “We don’t trust the Council over this. They delayed opening any
window of opportunity for us to object about the application then shut it quickly before we had a chance to write any letters of complaint. Now they’re telling us they had the right to rubber stamp the decision under delegated powers because they hadn’t received more than fi ve letters of objection.” The Council has also received a petition against
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esidents of Boosbeck are furious over the commencement of work at the former slaughterhouse this week. When confronted at the site on Saturday, Mr. Banaras of Banaras Halal Meats Limited told a member of the Boosbeck Against the Slaughterhouse (BASH) Committee that work would begin on Monday 16th January to clear the site for further development. The company has refused to enter in discussions with residents so far, despite calls for consultation from Tom Blenkinsop and George Dunning. The BASH Committee has been fi ghting the re-opening of the slaughterhouse on legal grounds but residents are now beginning to lose patience with the Council over their behaviour in allowing the go ahead and the mood is becoming tense.
The Council’s role
in granting a Lawful Development Certifi cate, which in effect gave Banaras Halal Meats the green light to acquire the slaughterhouse for reopening, is now under scrutiny. According to BASH members nobody from the council visited the site before issuing any certifi cate. A spokesperson for BASH said: “The Council’s decision stinks as much as the old slaughterhouse used to and the knives are out for those responsible.”
BASH committee member, Mark Belch, told us: “We have handed a fi le of complaints to Tom Blenkinsop to raise with the Council’s Chief Executive, Amanda Skelton. The way in which Council offi cers have handled the application has been sneaky and contemptible from the start. We now want some answers to establish whether there has been any willful neglect or misconduct in public offi ce during the handling of
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the matter.”
One of the key questions BASH has put to Amanda Skelton is, why did the Council delay publicising the 9th September weekly list for planning applications on its website until mid October? This is the only weekly list in 2011 that was posted late and out of sequence on the Council’s website. It contained the slaughterhouse application plus other applications relating to wind turbines and a 60m high meteorological mast.
In spite of these apparent stalling tactics, Boosbeck didn’t delay in getting a public meeting arranged. Within a few days of parish Cllrs Clive and Jean Maidens and Cllr Kath Jackson discovering the application, around 150 residents and Council offi cials attended a meeting on Saturday 15th October chaired by Tom Blenkinsop. Residents followed Tom’s advice to write letters of complaint to the Council
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