23rd June 2011, 12:37 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I understand from another forum that the councillor in question is also a quantity surveyor and director of a construction company.... Now reread his little speech bearing that in mind and suddenly the 'unacceptable face of capitalism' and blatant self-interest begins to rear its ugly head....
If this is true, it's absolutely appalling - he'd be using his public position to further his private commercial concerns, which must breach some sort of councillor code of conduct. If he's the leader of the Council, his job should be to represent all residents, not just one narrow special interest group whose views happen to coincide with his own. As I mentioned on the other thread dealing with this, the Council will have local and structure plan policies dealing with the treatment of archaeology, these policies will have been formulated in a considered manner and approved by a vote of the whole council, so probably can't just be dismissed on the whim of a single individual. Were they to be abandoned, the local plan would need to be amended to reflect this, and the altered policies approved by the councillors as a body, rather than by diktat.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum