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STOP RUBBISHING LOCAL PLAN, SAYS UNDER FIRE PARISH COUNCIL CHIEF Sefton Central MP Bill Esterson
...but MP maintains document is a ‘dog’s breakfast’ and claims its proposals have been ‘savaged’ by a government inspector and could cost thousands to be put right
THE chair of Formby Parish Council has accused the local Labour group of making ‘highly inaccurate, sensationalist and wrong claims’ about the cost of the area’s Neighbourhood Plan after Sefton Central MP Bill Esterson referred to it as a ‘dog’s breakfast’. In a hard-hitting response to Formby Labour Group’s latest claims over the FRAG inspired document, FRAG councillor and Parish Council chairman Bob
Report by Danielle Thompson McCann, accused the MP and Ravenmeols Labour councillor Nina Killen, of ‘perpetually rubbishing’ the draft Neighbourhood Plan. Mr McCann reacted angrily to a statement from Mr Esterson claiming Formby’s Neighbourhood Plan had been ‘savaged’ by a government inspector and could cost
Formby Parish Council Chairman, Bob McCann
‘thousands’ to be put right. The FRAG member said a statement put out by Mr Esterson ‘will only serve to reduce any public interest in the plan which, when it goes to referendum, may well be voted down by the electorate because of such inaccurate reports’. He added: “So in effect Labour are demonstrating that they don't actually support the residents and would sadly rather try to score political points.” Continued inside
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