Row over Darwen Conservative Party office sign (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Row over Darwen Conservative Party office sign
6:40pm Friday 12th March 2010 in
A NEW Conservative Party office in Darwen breaches planning guidelines, Labour councillors have told borough planners.
Labour claims the use of signs, outside the building in Railway Road, is against rules for the heritage area.
But Jake Berry, the Conservatives’ prospective candidate for Darwen and Rossendale, hit back, saying: “I am satisfied that the signage at our new office complies with planning law, having raised the issue with the council before the signs even went up.
“I’m delighted we have been able to open our new office in the town centre to serve the people of Darwen.”
The office, a local base for Mr Berry’s general election campaign, opened last month and was recently visited by Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Regeneration chief Adam Scott said: “The signs are apparently replacements of what was on the building previously and are being looked at to see if they are acceptable.”
Comments(15)
A Darener
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12:49pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Just remember what the labour government have done to the country in the last few years and make sure you show them the door.
hasslem hasslem
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1:20pm Thu 11 Mar 10
CapitaBackHander
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3:46pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Excluded
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4:12pm Thu 11 Mar 10
I think we have all had enough of MPs who think that the rules that are good enough for Joe Public are not good enough for them.
hasslem hasslem
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5:43pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Excluded wrote:Still pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
If someone wants to be our MP to make the laws that all of the rest of us should follow, shouldn't he have to folow the same rules as the rest of us? I think we have all had enough of MPs who think that the rules that are good enough for Joe Public are not good enough for them.
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Stinks of political opportunism, and you know it.
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It's a technicality, and you know it.
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Tell me Excluded what has been the response to the review as to whether it is acceptable.
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Rather think your mob, should be trying to to stuff a bit more postive about the current sitting mp rather than get involved in a stupid attempt at mud slinging.
Private I
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5:46pm Thu 11 Mar 10
happycyclist
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9:10pm Thu 11 Mar 10
THG
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10:56pm Fri 12 Mar 10
time.team
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11:55pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Goodness, now there’s a sign that shouldn’t be allowed. Thought up by those very wealthy supposedly red party pretenders who have spent our money on wars abroad and bankers pay off‘s. They have wasted our money through inept use and we‘re going to experience very hard times ahead. Do any of them say otherwise?
When the **** hit’s the fan, couldn’t be a better description of what we have to look forward to!
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“New Labour” - Blue boy’s with red faces!
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Browns slogan should have been: “A Fairy tale for all!”
lwg76
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2:18pm Sat 13 Mar 10
CapitaBackHander
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4:38pm Sat 13 Mar 10
Your (political) opinion counts for nothing, there is a legal rule and ruling and it HAS to be followed.
A Darener
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12:45pm Sun 14 Mar 10
CapitaBackHander wrote:Ah! If only that were true! Rules are made by people that then make sure they are immune from them e.g. MP's expenses. If a rule or law can be bent then you can expect a politician to bend or break it.
Comments here just show what is so wrong with people and their (political) opinions. Your (political) opinion counts for nothing, there is a legal rule and ruling and it HAS to be followed.
Roy Drage
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4:37pm Sun 14 Mar 10
lwg76 wrote:Very succinctly put - anything new in this town is just not on is it? New leisure centre - moan moan. New school - moan moan. New sign - moan moan. Who dares put their head above the parapet with the next new idea...only to be shot down in flames by the league of naysayers? Eventually the visionaries and entrepreneurs will give up and invest their time and effort in towns that are more appreciative of progress.
The signs are new therefore will not be acceptable to Labour and the Regeneration board, as anything new is abhorrant. New signs, New start New life in a New Darwen.
whereistedward
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4:53pm Sun 14 Mar 10
However, there have to be planning rules otherwise everyone could just do their own thing and build things with impunity. For example, I'm sure people wouldn't like house building on the greenbelt, large extensions on terraced housing, or small terraced houses turned into shops or flats, etc etc;
Conservation Areas (most of Darwen Town Centre is within
one) have special planning rules where things like signage have different rules than the rest of the Borough.
So when new signs are erected without planning permission then members of the public have a right to question their validity. It turns out that, according to planning officials, these particular signs did not need permission.
Full metal shutters on shop fronts are another issue. They are not allowed in Conservation Areas, yet the Council have 'turned a blind eye' because of the security benefits they can bring. But do rows of metal shutters attract shoppers to the town centre and are they visually attractive ?
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happycyclist says...
11:36am Thu 11 Mar 10
What a sorry bunch you Labour lot are.