That seemed to come to naught.
However Cllr Bell this year reported at a full Council Meeting that a new and as yet un-nameable party had entered into preliminary discussions with our LPA once more about proposals for the Hall and the gas-holder site..
Whilst Cllr Bell committed to writing to Julia Webb at that same meeting to explain matters, he made it clear that the Council was constrained by confidentially because of the formal aspects of the consultation conducted under the auspices of planning law.
Whilst being unable to convey details to residents, Cllr Bell made plain the Council's resistance to whatever was contained in the proposal. He has publicly repeated that position in subsequent meetings.
The identity of the consultee remains cloaked in that legal confidentiality.
However in searching Berkeley Groups prospectus and published accounts the Group identifies a number of former gas-holder sites around the country as being of interest as additions to the Group's portfolio.
Livesey Hall and the gas-holder site have been removed from the latest publication.
But at the usual risk of adding two and two and getting five, it is not improbable that the consultee is the Berkeley Group.
I do NOT have any insight into the consultation - has anyone else been briefed or has the confidentiality been set aside with the passage of time?
Interestingly The Times publishes an item.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/risi ... -hnwvp65hk
"Planning delays" are quoted by Berkeley as being problematic - can they mean us?Berkeley says that it is facing a “number of challenges”, including planning delays and uncertainty caused by cladding costs, although the housebuilder is still selling homes more rapidly than it was before the pandemic.