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DON’T LET THEM TAKE YOUR RIGHTS AWAY
Planning: The threat to your rights to stand up
for your home and neighbourhood Intended changes to the planning
system (H&F Council
website,
18 June 2021) 1. The introduction of a
traffic light system which will classify land for either
growth, renewal or protection. Land in growth areas will automatically
be given planning permission without individual planning consent 2. Planning committees
won’t decide applications as they do now, so residents will be less able to
comment on specific proposals. Instead, planning inspectors will have
discretion over what form an objector’s representations might take. 3. The existing site
notice and letter approach will be scrapped in favour of a fully digitised
system which could exclude those who are less technologically able. Some reasons why the government’s changes should
not go ahead MPs’ debate on
planning (21 June 2021) voted 231-0 for residents to have their say. A consultation towards legislation on making it easier to impose
mobile phone masts recently closed.
(In the 2019 consultation, personal respondents were the largest single
group. A large
majority, typically 74%, up to 85%, opposed the planning changes (p8). It would
be a betrayal of the assurance in the Government’s 2019 Manifesto: “We
remain committed to devolving power to people and places across the UK.” The
2019 Manifesto also notes “Having listened to local communities, we have
ruled out changes to the planning system. We will not support fracking unless the science shows categorically that it can be done safely.” The same yardstick needs to be adopted for
emerging 5G technology, which has not been tested for
safety. The government
committed to roll out 5G nationally in 2017 despite the lack of economic
justification, concerns about health and insecure communications. The telecom
industry wanted public sector support and funding – however the pilot – a
police facial recognition system –
was ruled illegal as a threat to
privacy! 5G is
potentially a major part of a population surveillance system (that could be
sneaked in under the guise of building ‘Smart Cities’ or ‘The Internet of
Things’). THIS ATTEMPT TO REMOVE OUR RIGHTS COMES AT
THE SAME TIME AS A WORRYING BARRAGE OF ATTEMPTS TO RESTRICT OUR FREEDOM AND
INCREASE THE POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT ● removing rights to object to unlawful
government decisions ● making it easier for government employees
to break laws ● removing rights to expose malpractices in
government ● restricting the right to free speech ● restricting the right to free assembly
and peaceful protest ● introducing an irrational system of
‘medical apartheid’ and population tracking ● engineering
social and economic upheaval. |
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What can I do?
Write
to your MP insisting that the
government drops its insane planning proposals – e.g. to Rt
Hon Greg Hands, MP for Chelsea with Fulham, House of Commons, London
SW1A 0AA (mail@greghands.com). |
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● We
also support the important crowd-funded national legal action actionagainst5g.org - the appeal is
still open for donations. |
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