“Everyone will find something they don’t like, but we have to say it will be difficult to find any better alternatives. If you take something out of the proposals, something else has to take its place,” said the council's Cabinet member for finance
Cllr Bacon says the basis upon which changes to the Island Plan are proposed is "clearly severely flawed, will almost certainly take well over a year and will likely achieve nothing other than delay"
Cllr Bacon says the MP's vote runs wholly and totally against the undertakings he made in a meeting designed to call Southern Water to account for recent perceived failings in the management of our water infrastructure
The Alliance Group say the primary consideration for planning applications has become whether a refusal could be legally challenged, rather than whether it's appropriate for the Island