Councillor under cosh over his actions on Spalding Travellers’ site application - Lincolnshire

From the Spalding Voice

Cowbit Parish Council has vowed to investigate the process which culminated in a new tTravellers’ site in Spalding being granted planning permission.

Members are angry that Moulton, Weston and Cowbit district councillor Anthony Casson declared himself unable to vote at South Holland’s planning committee meeting earlier this month.

The vote on granting permission was tied at 6-6 and passed on the committee chairman’s casting vote. Had Coun Casson voted, the plan would have been rejected.
Coun Casson claims that he showed support for objectors at an open public meeting in the village earlier this year and, following “legal advice”, had decided not to vote.
In order to demonstrate an open mind during the debate, planning committee members are not supposed to publicly declare their voting intention before the meeting.

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