Wiltshire Council’s Strategic Planning Committee will determine the controversial Library application next week. The meeting, which is public, will be held at:

City Hall at 10.30am on Wednesday June 19th.

Please attend and if you can air your views and listen to others! The agenda for the meeting can be seen HERE.

The City Council’s Planning Committee voted to support the application on party lines by 5 to 3. All the Tories spoke in favour, citing how good the building is and how the 40ft Rule Policy should be broken on this occasion. This is unbelievable, as they clearly have not read the Conservation Officers Report. None of them actually spoke on planning matters, but Tory policy. They had a pre-meeting and were whipped. The proposal is unfit for Salisbury. But we are talking Wiltshire Council! If this was anyone other than a Wiltshire Council application, it would have been thrown out for a higher quality design. This meeting stunk of pre-planned speeches and a total disregard to Wiltshire Planning Policies. Once the 40ft Rule is broken, that’s it. This will come back to bite the Tories and the sooner the better.

I will be there on Wednesday. I hope you can be too!