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Why Did NYCC Waste £24,000
Dear Mr Flinton and Cllr Weighell
Why did NYCC allow the initial planing application for the Park and Ride to expire?
This has cost the tax payer £25,000 to re-submit the application!
When it should only have cost another £575.
In £2007 the application cost £1350 and planning was refused.
In £2008 there was a resubmission free of charge following alterations which I believe were passed
NYCC then allowed the planning permission to lapse.
However to extend the application it would have only cost £575.
From what I understand, had NYCC had begun constructing the Park & Ride they would not have had to apply for a completely new planning application.
Only submit alterations as it was being constructed.
So, NYCC have had to resubmitted the latest application from scratch as permission granted had lapsed and due to a change in application fees there has been a considerable increase.
It has now cost another £5780 for a new application to the National Park Authority.
Excluding all additional consultancy fees in submitting the new application and alterations made.
NYCC do NOT have planning permission for the Park and Ride, despite compulsory purchasing the land where the Park and Ride will be located and allowing previous approval to lapse.
1) As a freedom of information request please may I have the total cost incurred by NYCC regards the Park & Ride, Whitby?
2) Please include all external consultancy fees and an approximate cost of NYCC officer time?
Tom Brodrick
The Reading Room
24a Flowergate
Whitby
North Yorks
YO21 5PA
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kathleen parker
January 9, 2013 at 5:20 pm
Typical another waste of our money and for what? Something that will cost more than it will save! Park and ride is a total waste of money in my opinion.
Richard Ineson
January 10, 2013 at 12:25 pm
There is a strong rumour circulating in Whitby that the P&R scheme is going to be abandoned, this is based apparently, on NYCC insider, information. The quandary for NYCC and local Councillors is how to break the news without looking like complete fools. The final straw was the latest announcement from Osborne about the fiscal cliff and the need for further savings by local government. Of course the £415,000 already spent, on God knows what, will have to be written off, but the scheme as it stands, was a disaster in the making and to spend £5,000,000 (£5 million) on the provision of 450 car parking spaces, should have been seen as a serious waste of public money, a long time ago.
Richard Ineson
January 10, 2013 at 4:27 pm
The short answer to the question is no, they did not waste £24,000, it now looks as if they wasted £415,000.
DKP
January 21, 2013 at 12:18 am
And it won’t stop there. The cost of never admitting a mistake rises faster than the council tax. They’ll go broke before long. Welcome to the wonderful world of denial.