kevinjohnsonmbe

Sounds like PD, unlikely to have an eco report. A bit off topic, but the number of planning apps that state “No, No” for trees and hedges when it should be “Yes” still staggers me. I even tried raising it as an issue with LPA once - distinct lack of interest frankly. Edit - Meant to say - conditions based on assumptions? That’d be fun to challenge.

One of my funniest experiences.... Narrow lanes, I’m driving wife’s little car, meets peroxide blonde puma in a shiny new (what do they call that little hairdressers Land Rover?) Can’t remember. She gets all animated with the wavy finger thing because she doesn’t want to pull in to the edge and risk hedge rash, I pull in and say come on through, you could get a bus through there, she’s aving none of it. It was only when she said you can move that shitty little car, I’m not scraping this that caused the hackles to really go up. I politely suggested you could get a bus through there and questioned her suitability / eligibility to be driving whilst physically standing arms spread in the space she needed to drive through. Her husband said nothing. Son got out of the back and puffed up like a bantam. That’s not going to help... Eventually, after several drivers indicated her stupidity she ‘squeezed’ through. 2 cars behind her there actually WAS a bus and he glided through easily as well 😂

Not just bad down here J, wifey is at M5/M6 interchange around Brum, 1 hour to move 6 miles 🤯. Whilst she’s on domestic travel, wouldn’t want to try and run a business under those kind of conditions. Guess it becomes ‘normal’ if yome forced to get used to it?

I had a beauty on Sunday. The ubiquitous narrow high side lane and a ‘visitor’ in a BMW. As 2 more cars pulled up behind him, from the same party, you could see the relief on his face as he gesticulated that I should reverse because he was 1 of 3. That got quite funny as he frantically waved 3 fingers at me. His attempt to reverse literally the 2m (compared to the 1000m I knew I’d have to go) to the spot where we could pass was both painful and hilarious to watch. I just smiled as he hurled insults as I passed. Soon be back to ‘normal.’

I can't find the exact thread where Big J complains about West country roads - there were too many search results 😂 But I think this guy is a distant cousin of J's (watch the vid, don't bother with the journalism - it's Cornwall Live so it is shite at its very best: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-campervan-says-rubbish-cornwall-5761383?fbclid=IwAR1rItnQj5E_96mhY4hY92eNYiDWRf0pGo4hiyEXeOxPq1N-eynUQcH62Mk

I think there's more to this than may immediately be apparent: 'Gimp Man of Essex' aiming to spark debate while fundraising WWW.BBC.CO.UK A rubber fetishist takes to the streets in a 'gimp suit' in an attempt to challenge stereotypes and raise money.

Watching or acting??

Totally agree there a problem and that problem has consequences. Starmer is playing a dirty political trick by attempting to link both the problem and the (so called) solution to Brexit. Is he really so daft, or arrogant and out of touch, as to seek to dump all over the former Labour Brexit voting heartlands though?

Absolutely! BUT, it fits his re-neverendum agenda to claim Brexit is the cause of a shortage of truckers - conveniently ignoring the fact that the trucker shortage pre-dates Brexit by at least 5 years and is a consequence of that industry failing to implement a credible sustainability plan.

That’s an outrageous assumption of my perfectly entitled opinion of how big a “thing” wokeness is! You've no right to project YOUR assumptions into my free thinking space! Im conflicted and confused as to whether I should slink off to my safe space for a sob session or go on a march to declare my independent right to free thought and speech..... (all of that said, and stated for the record, I’m actually inclined to agree Mark - but keep it on the QT! 😂)

Not quite the same, but similar..... Horrible barsteward in my childhood village, proper wrong un but ultimately probably the unluckiest geez I’ve ever heard of. Always up to mischief and never a thought for the consequences to himself or others. First major mishap was speeding back from a late night pub session as pillion on a motorbike. Twisty turny country lane, hard left and over one of the little humpback bridges over a stream with a black and white concrete pillar at either side and a scaffold bar between the 2. The bike took out the first pillar, driver was thrown clear and Harry Porter was skewered on the horizontal pole. Our house was 300m away. The sirens woke us, the screams of “let me die” as the fire brigade cut a section of the pole away so they could fit him in the ambulance kept us awake! Still remember it now 40 years later. Episode 2 in his short life was (apparently innocently) being hit by the getaway car from an armed blag in Oxford city centre and thrown through a plate glass shop window - again, somehow, he survived that. Finally met his match, no more than late 20s, after missing the last foot passenger ferry from the aptly named “Ferryman Inn” at Bablock Hythe whence upon he decided to swim across the flood swollen Thames to get home to Appleton. Found his bloated and disfigured body past Cowley Bridge several weeks later. Village life was broadly somewhat more enjoyable for the vast majority in the subsequent years.....

What passes for “rich” these days anyway? If you’ve got enough, or more, money than you need but you wish you had more time does that make you rich or poor? You can’t change money for time so what use is it so long as you’ve got food and shelter? The old boy knew his onions:

I’m ‘rich’ in life, love and happiness Andrew 🏋️

None necessary, been called worse.... And you can do one monkey boy.

Put it in “what 3 words” I think it comes out as South East Cornwall!

Always thought of it as a made up event so that posh twats that are a little bit good at several disciplines, but entirely mediocre in any single one, have something to do rather than being left out completely. I mean, if you can ride, shoot, fence and swim at even as low as a county level, and you can just about hold your own in the other elements, you’re just about guaranteed a punt at the UK team simply on the basis that East Ham comprehensive school probably doesn’t have fencing and rifle shooting on the syllabus (if it were opened up to stabbing with a shank and popping a cap in ur ass with a moody shooter.....) Well then you might see a more diverse selection pool 😂

I can feel myself getting drawn in when I know I should resist...... 😞 Whole thing bears very little interest for me. The BMX story just about piqued an interest though - having been refused funding by what ever nameless QUANGO allocates funding to potential competitors, girl set up a gofundme page, raised her own cash and was first UK female gold medal winner - class act and with elements of ‘cool running’ back story. 👍🏻

I’m SE Cornwall and can often find tasks that would suit if you fancy a schlepp down this far 👍🏻

I see you’re in!

On the one hand, there is a long and well recognised route of incremental additions and supplements that are recognised as a potential path to eventually claiming lawfulness or residential rights within areas (particularly woodlands) which would otherwise never be granted planning consent.... But on the other, (some) town, parish and district councils have a well earned reputation for being complete asses. Entering into an appeals battle with people that are not spending their own money is futile and playing by their rules. There are much more entertaining, enjoyable and fulfilling means of taking your fight to the enemy 😎

Offer to send them samples of output from the compost loo and comparable samples that have not benefitted from composting and ask them which they’d prefer. Make sure to send samples to PC as well.

Or after for that matter. It only gets a bit sketchy if you start changing the situation after approval - unless in accordance with the submitted plans.

I'd suggest the 'planning process' in the context as quoted - the part where the LPA gets involved - starts when the application is submitted and the obligation under s197 rests squarely with the LPA - not the applicant. Does the arb agent owe a duty of professional obligation to the LPA or to the client? (rhetorical obvs)

Given your login name, its possible that your dendrophilia (n. a paraphilia characterised by sexual attraction to trees. The person may have actual sexual contact with trees, may venerate them as phallic symbols, or both. Also called dendrophily) may exceed your chrematism. Either way, it sounds like you've got bigger issues than client behaviour 😯