Letter to Protesc

Dear Pam
This is to let you know we are in the process of preparing a complaint about the councillors on the JDCC to send to Simon Partridge, the leader of the council.

We have information from Karen Sly in the finance department, that there is an emergency council meeting next Wednesday, presented to full council at which councillors will be asked to claw back £200,000  from the capital programme for NNDC's own appeal costs, and a further £200,000 for Tesco's costs, which, the notice says, will have an immediate effect on on the current budget as well as implications for future years' budgets. The capital programme will need to be reprogrammed as this money is already funding capital schemes. This will also be reported to the audit committee as this increases the financial risk exposure of the council significantly. I can send you the full report tomorrow if you don't already have it.

Our complaint will be on the basis of possible maladministration, failure to act democratically and to represent all the people of Sheringham fairly; also on the grounds for rejection after saying they would pass it in April 2006; money wasting and time wasting as it now looks as though this is delaying tactics while the LDF is brought in; and what happens in Sheringham is decided by SCAMROD and the Chamber of Trade. We hope you have seen their notices in the shops - unbelievable! "Our local elected district councillors did us proud." And "Tesco will appeal, but with your continued support we will cross that bridge when we come to it." This last is in very small print. I have photographs of all the shops displaying this notice.

We think there is a need now for the rest of North Norfolk taxpayers to know what's going on. I intend to contact Richard Batson (EDP reporter) tomorrow with information about the emergency council meeting.

Hope you've also seen our letters in the EDP and the North Norfolk News.

We'll keep you informed.

Paul and Wendy Norman

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