The town council planning committee can only give an opinion to the decision-makers; it cannot do anything more than that. Their response will be added to all of those from statutory consultees. Don'… (View Post)

Bit of a drop since the last election. Adding up the South East and South West to get a comparable "rest of South" from last time, they led by 31% in 2019. Going from that to a statistical … (View Post)

Bit of a surprise. Possibly a local thing there. We're one DC over, and in my ward alone, there are two solar farms bigger than that. Never heard a hint of controversy over it. Then again, we're also… (View Post)

Very true. And I notice that the major Thames Water reservoirs were all nearly 90% full as at the end of July (Farmoor at 89%, Lee Valley ones at 88%). And, as you point out, leak reduction provides … (View Post)

I can answer that! The STT involves a request to United Utilities to release the water. The first port of call is Lake Vyrnwy, but there are lots of other existing reservoirs that can be called on if… (View Post)