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Competing Forums for same Neighbourhood Area
paul lewin, modified 1 Year ago.
Competing Forums for same Neighbourhood Area
New Member Posts: 8 Join Date: 06/04/20 Recent PostsAnyone had two applications from different forums for the same neighbourhood area? A long standing Forum has reapplied following the lapse of its previous designation. There was a major falling out within the Forum about 4 years ago. Some of that group and others have responded by submitting their own Forum application.....
richard white, modified 1 Year ago.
RE: Competing Forums for same Neighbourhood Area
Advocate Posts: 212 Join Date: 26/11/18 Recent PostsNot exactly, but we had a dispute a few years ago about the extent of a neighbourhood area which might provide some tangential ideas about the scope / approach to decisions like this
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2014/228.html
nicholas waring, modified 1 Year ago.
RE: Competing Forums for same Neighbourhood Area
Enthusiast Posts: 29 Join Date: 21/01/12 Recent Postswhat exactly is the problem here?
does Guidance not countenance competing forums?
isnt this the nub of democracy and local government? seems you need to devise a process in which the various forces compete for "victory" as the sole forum or in which multi forums are tolerated.
Andrew Chalmers, modified 1 Year ago.
RE: Competing Forums for same Neighbourhood Area
Advocate Posts: 169 Join Date: 20/10/11 Recent PostsRegulations only allow one forum for an area, so you will have to carefully establish (and the bar is pretty low) whether each fulfills the purpose. Of course you could consider them sequentially and consult on them separately. Then the first to be approved would automatically trump the other. I would have thought that effectively renewing an existing forum would be easier since the evaluation will have been done better.
Quite why regulations set an expiry date at all and no renewal process is quite beyond me...but then again the introduction of neighbourhood plans was a rapid and rather cynical political attempt to get neighbourhoods on side to agree to more development. And of course many are set up with exactly the opposite aim...