Pocklington Town Council (PTC) revealed the results of the Consultation for the Neighbourhood Plan over the weekend and confirmed yet again they are all mouth and no brains.

The Evidence

• For eight years PTC failed to produce a Pocklington Neighbourhood Plan that could have shaped planning in Pocklington.
• Yet they constantly complain about Tory controlled ERYC allowing further house building in Pocklington.
• All three Pocklington Provincial ERYC Ward Councillors are now Tory.
• All three are former PTC Councillors.
• It is a Tory policy to build houses.
• All three agree to put party first (thus residents are at best second).
• A review of the Local Plan is currently in process.
• All three will support national Conservative Policy and support the building of more houses, especially in Pocklington by voting for this in the new Local Plan.
• None of the three newly elected ERYC Ward Councillors was in attendance over the weekend.
• Of course, they were absent. They know they failed for years while PTC Councillors to introduce the Neighbourhood Plan.
• Due to PTC Councillors failure and Tory policy, it is now too late for a Neighbourhood Plan as the overdevelopment has happened.
• The three Tory Ward Councillors will now vote for a new Local Plan that will force many more houses on Pocklington.
• The Neighbourhood Plan is still about two years away at best.
• The consultation period was launched in the run-up to the recent elections.
• This was surely not to deflect from the failure of the PTC Councillors who were standing for election as both ERYC and PTC Councillors at the time?

Enough said.