YOUR report (April 26) concerning planning approval given by west Wiltshire councillors for five houses to be built at Long's Yard, St Margaret's Street, Bradford on Avon, failed to mention that their previous refusal for a virtually identical development on this site was upheld, not on appeal, but at a very costly public inquiry.
What your reporter and the council tax payers of west Wiltshire may not be aware of is the fact that £15,000 of our money was spent by the council in defending its original refusal at the public inquiry.
That the committee was correct in its refusal was endorsed by the planning inspector, who also rejected the plan.
Is your reporter not curious to know why councillors gave almost unanimous refusal (with one abstention) to the original proposal, and yet voted 9-2 in favour of a virtually identical second application? I know I am.
And how do they justify the £15,000 they spent last year at inquiry; and would now have us believe they got it so wrong?
C JOHNSTON,
Trowbridge Road,
Bradford on Avon.
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