Hackney Council confirmed recently that a planning meeting which was to decide whether travellers could be moved to 2 new sites in Homerton Road and Wallis Road, Hackney Wick, had to be put back by them because they want more time to consider the responses they have received.
I previously covered the planned move, which had angered local residents because the planning notices had been “accidentally” hidden from view. Hackney Marshes User Group’s (HMUG) Paul Hodge said:
“We had no knowledge from the council about two meetings held in December specifically about Hackney Marshes site.”
“We organised a hunt by 14 people to find the notices the council said they had put up, and when we finally found them, they were dated December 4, the day of the first meeting.”
“There are loads of notice boards around the Marshes, but these were almost hidden and one was at least 100 metres away from the site.”
“They also put the notice in Hackney Today under the wrong postcode. It’s embarrassing that the council has made such a pig’s ear of this.”
Hackney Council said, rather as we would expect, that it has fulfilled the requirements of the planning consultation hence it will not be starting the planning process again.
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