I WAS very struck by the notices section of last week's paper. There are the usual Road Traffic Act and Highways Act notices, and, commanding, 15 column centimetres, a planning notice from Dartmoor National Park.
It gives some details of an application and offers all the usual facilities to write and support or otherwise with warnings that those letters may be made public.
That means this application will be given consideration and due process. At a cost of (£2,000?). Hardly less I would have thought as the multiple copies are spread through highways etc, and a planning officer visits, photographs and drafts a report.
The subject of all this — the erection of a woodshed on an allotment site in South Zeal. Why? Are the usual sheds that add a certain distinct Britishness to our beloved allotments and are essential to the safekeeping of tools, seeds, etc, so contentious that we should undertake a full planning exercise to protect, well, who knows what?
Maybe the 'shed' is 100ft long or 20ft high. The notice gives no clue. Maybe, but if it is the usual thing, maybe 10ft x 8ft max then the sooner the bonfire red tape reaches South Zeal and all other parts, including the unelected DNP, the better.
David D Hill
Mill Street
Chagford