It is absolutely amazing how the Nelson City council can just totally ignore the entire statutory planning process when it suits, and when it wants to spend money on its vested interests.
The latest example of this sort of improper expenditure is the Theatre Royal.
Council has approved a couple of million bucks worth of financial committals to the Theatre Royal, without any planning notification or consultation whatsoever.
They have achieved that significant piece of expenditure by adding it, sight unseen into the confirmed LTCCP, without ever declaring that intention to the public, via the draft LTCCP.
Because of that slieght of hand, the public have never been notified, or consulted about that intended expenditure, in total contravention of every part of the legislative planning process.
If that intended expenditure has never been declared in the published draft plan, then clearly the public were kept in the dark about that expenditure, and were thus unable to give any sort of assent, informed or otherwise, silent or otherwise.
This despotic totalitarian council are as usual, giving a one finger salute to democracy.
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