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GoogleTranslate won't work with this, can someone here translate the above?New document. SBC now duping DCLG, apparently. Funny how it took a week to post this on the site.
From: Karen Partridge Sent: 17 March 2016 12:04 To: 'malford@staffordbc.gov.uk'; 'rwood@staffordbc.gov.uk' Subject: Stafford Rugby Club on Land at Blackberry Lane. Ref No: 16/23583/FUL
Mark We spoke this morning and you kindly brought me up to date with the position of this application. And I note you are on AL until 4/4/16 after Friday, hence I’m cc’ing Richard in. I understand you are taking it to Committee on Wed 30 March. As I explained, the Secretary of State has a letter requesting ‘call in’ of this application. I will be sending a holding reply to the writer, advising that we will be taking no action until such times as this application has been to committee. In general, we consider that it is inappropriate in these cases to consider whether intervention at Government level is appropriate until the Council has reached a clear recommendation, taking into account the views expressed by consultees and the local community. In the event that your Council is minded to approve the application, following committee, we will then consider the request along with any other issues raised by the application against the call-in policy set out in the Ministerial Statement of 26 October 2012. We would then need a period of time to assess this request, post committee. You mentioned that there is no S106 on this application, so it is likely that you could be in a position to issue the planning permission quite quickly. We may therefore, depending on the outcome at committee, need to issue an Article 31 (previously 25) Holding Direction, to you on Thursday 31 March, formally preventing your authority from issuing planning permission. Or we could agree an informal arrangement. We agreed I would keep in contact with Richard in your absence and I will call him on the am of 31/3 to establish the outcome of the Committee. I hope this is clear. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any queries in the meantime.
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Is Karen riding the fence and being very clever in not saying anything and everything, both for and against, just incase?