Credit where it’s due and it’s not often that we congratulate the planning department, but ‘hurrah’ to Andrew Pegram who eventually got back to us this afternoon, 10 minutes before close of business.
In response to our request that the consultation period on St Josephs be extended, Pegram stated …
I should point out that the 21 day consultation period is a minimum period for comments and we will accept comments beyond the deadline, although failure to meet this deadline may prejudice the opportunity for comments to be taken into account. I do not intend to send additional letters to those people we consulted extending the deadline for comments.
However, in this instance, given that we will be reporting the matter to committee in February, a situation has arisen where we will be able to accept comments beyond the specified deadline, and potentially up to the date of the meeting.
All eyes will be on the Planning Committee on 26 February to hear what they have to say about this serial abuser of the planning process.
It’s still not possible to comment online, but we will post up the response to this issue once we receive it.
Update: Received another email from Andrew Pegram who wishes to state that
I have not actually extended the consultation period, merely confirmed that we will accept comments beyond the specified date. There will be no facility for commenting online, instead those who wish to comment should email russell(dot)chick(at)iow(dot)gov(dot)uk.
