Councillor Terry Parish, new West Norfolk Council Head, has had a complaint registered against him by local parish member Nigel Marsh
One of Councilor Parish’s proposed conditions was to build a wall to stop campers from getting to the campsite, a concept reminiscent of the Cold War and the building of the Iron Curtain!
This condition let me use the entry point, but only for the holiday lets and not the campsite it runs past, making it impossible to operate my business here. It would have required me to build a wall between the entrance and the campsite to prevent access between the two, making certain areas of the site entirely impossible to access!
On top of an unreasonable condition to make large areas of my site effectively useless, the council also proposed a condition whereby only holiday let guests could use an entry point! Not only would this condition have been nearly impossible to enforce, but it also entirely ignores the fact that this access point has been accepted since at least 1953 when it was pictured in use as an entrance point for the caravan and campsite which was operating at the time. Regardless of that, the planning hearing still sketched a plan to get it approved!!!!
With this allegation and this evidence, it is clear to any person on the Clapham Omnibus that I, Nigel Marsh, was quoted by Councillor Terry Parish as a “rogue developer”.
There is no evidence that this is factual, nor is there evidence that this is someone else's opinion that Parish was relaying on behalf of someone else; this can only be his view, and as such it's clear slander. Similarly, the minutes of multiple Council meetings from April 2022 to January 2023 refer to my campsite in a libellous manner as an "illegal campsite"
You can read the email I sent off personally on May 9th to complain about Parish's conduct on the right here.
However, all was not lost. Following a review by the planning inspectorate, these conditions were overturned, and my plans were allowed to go ahead. A report from an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State laid out their reasoning for this decision, which categorically reflected my arguments and sided with me wholly on the matter.
In the report, the Inspector of the Secretary of State writes:
Clearly, the Planning Inspectorate saw as well as I did that there was no legitimate reason to block this access based on this application. But, that wasn’t all, as they later stated:
