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Parish Councils - law unto themselves?...

the-muffin-man · 2023-02-23T11:56:36Z

Basic outline... We wanted a memorial to my wife's mother in the village cemetary. Not a gravestone (her mum hated gravestones!), a memorial feature in the garden. My wife has been in discussion with the Parish Council since last July, had several site meetings, lot of emails saying what was planned and approval to continue late last year. There was even a site visit last week between the builder of the memorial and the Parish Clerk last week so he could say what he was doing before he started work. Monday night we get an email from the Clerk to say stop work as they've had a complaint that it's out of place! The work was already completed and it's a 2ft square limestone column with a circular stone plaque on top - not some ruddy great mausoleum with unicorns and rainbows on. It's all made from local stone so about as in-keeping as you can get - and it's what we said it would be! My wife is furious and very upset as she's bent over backwards to please them. We know who's complained - it's a bloke who's a nasty piece of work who thinks he rules the village and even though not on the council he has huge sway. And he was hanging around the cemetary while it was being built. And him and my wife's mother had many run-ins over the years - village politics at it's best! My wife's mum was born in the village and spent all her life working for the good of the village. We get the impression from their email that if they say it has to go, it has to go. This seems very unfair as we've spent hundreds on it and done all they asked. If we have to can we go higher than the Parish Council.

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singletrackmind

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If he is a spiteful vindictive old git he might use this opportunity to still try to cause a nuisance of himself.
When its been taken down i reckon he will try to ensure its not rebuilt at all if he can find a way to get it stopped, people like this with nothing to do like to wage pointless wars of attrition.

Posted : 15/03/2023 3:42 pm

wbo

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What does this thing look like?

Posted : 15/03/2023 4:28 pm

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