#Jenrick. My perspective: As a local cllr dealing with planning matters (while on EDDC) I never had private meetings with developers. Ever. I wasn't a decision maker but part of that process. Cllrs on planning cttees have strict rules as decision makers in a quasi judicial 1/2

Process. If a cllr on a planning cttee was found to be greasing the wheels of an applicant also their party donor there would almost certainly be a standards cttee investigation. There are few issues in politics that fire me up more than this sort of

Thing. Not only does it have the whiff of corruption but it also erodes public trust in a process already weighted towards the developer #nppf ...He should resign