Consider Notice of Review Request: Land West of Strathholm, Clachan, Tarbert (Ref: 24/0009/Lrb)

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Land West of Stratholm, Clachan 

Local Review Board Ref.  224/0009/LRB

Comments on Planning Authority Statement of Case dated 7th May 2024.

The planning Authority has stated that “none of the procedural points raised by the appellant raise
any material considerations that would justify allowing the appeal”
We disagree strongly with this statement as we were constantly requested for an FRA when the
flood levels, which are legally required to be issued by SEPA/local authority, were not being
provided together with the fact that the local authorities legal team blocked the appeal to the
Scottish Government stipulates in volumes the level of maladministration of this application, being 
refused information and being passed from one person to another which entailed a vast amount
of time and money wasted trying to obtain the requisite information from the local authority and
their Flood Risk consultants.

Again we emphasise that because it took over 12 months to obtain flood level information, which
was received from an obscure source, this entailed the application coming into the jurisdiction of
NPF4, which in turn negated the flood barriers proposals.

We have still not received any comments on the design of the proposal which again given the
length of time the application was live is disappointing together with  the reason for demanding an
FRA was on unverified photographs ( no investigation to the cause !!), as it was deemed when the
flood level was disclosed that there was no issued of flooding from the clachan burn, so the
applicant is prepared to take this application to the Court of Session if required, should this
appeal not be successful.

Regards

John Bol

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