7 Sheffield Councillors Suspended For Voting Against Local Plan

[SheffieldForum]

Most of the Labour ‘old guard’ of Sheffield City Council, including former leader Terry Fox…

 

https://x.com/lutheblue/status/1701234157261599180

[HeHasRisen]

Until I know what's in this "plan" I don't know whether to be outraged or not. 

[SheffieldForum]

Lots of info in the documents at the bottom of this page: https://haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/draft-local-plan

[Pyrotequila]

1 hour ago, deejayone said:

Lots of info in the documents at the bottom of this page: https://haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/draft-local-plan

Is there a "too long, didn't read" short version?

[Planner1]

1 hour ago, HeHasRisen said:

Until I know what's in this "plan" I don't know whether to be outraged or not. 

It is the spatial planning policy for the city.

 

It is used in determining planning applications. It essentially says what can be built where.

 

The controversy was about the proposed gipsy and traveller site at Eckington Way. Terry Fox and Bryan Lodge voted against the local plan because of this proposal. It’s in this article

[Delbow]

Councillors should be able to vote how they want, surely? Being told to vote en bloc seems anti-democratic. 

[HeHasRisen]

Just now, Delbow said:

Councillors should be able to vote how they want, surely? Being told to vote en bloc seems anti-democratic. 

No different to the whips in the House of Commons tbf. If you get elected under the banner of a party this will always happen.

[Delbow]

3 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

No different to the whips in the House of Commons tbf. If you get elected under the banner of a party this will always happen.

True, but national Labour are being very rigid about what they will tolerate - any cooperation with the Green Party will see you expelled, for example, and a Labour member appears to have been blocked from standing for MP because she 'liked' a tweet from Nicola Sturgeon saying she had recovered from Covid

 

They are control freaks - this should not be welcome.

 

 

[harvey19]

16 minutes ago, Delbow said:

Councillors should be able to vote how they want, surely? Being told to vote en bloc seems anti-democratic. 

This leads to the question as to why we need different MPs/councillors if they are all ordered to do what the whip/centre decides.

 

[Delbow]

4 minutes ago, harvey19 said:

This leads to the question as to why we need different MPs/councillors if they are all ordered to do what the whip/centre decides.

 

Yeah, it's important to have people willing to speak up. Look at Thurrock Council who wasted all that money - they would have benefited from someone who said 'hang on, this isn't right'.