Open letter addressing Mr Richard Keeling - leader, Councillor Saunders ? chairman of the 'planning; committee.
This letter to be forwarded to 41 other councillors - I am not well enough to do this myself.

I ask you to read the two attachments in the first posting. First a brief survey of my earlier objections to this hideously large 'development' to do eventually with the growing and selling of flowers. This used to be done by families in the valleys of Combe and Stoke from small wooden sheds.

I say this relying on memory but I am open to correction. The applicants Mrs and Mr Cooper-Smith badgered the planning officer Artur mercilessly in my view, as if there was urgency. They were deceitful, given that the first purpose stated was for the storage of hay, but there was no substantial hay field nor appropriate numbers of stock.

But I focus on the key condition which was to excavate down ONE POINT TWO meters for the foundation. This was to lessen the impact of this very large erection within the 'beautiful brecchia landscapes' of this parish - this to quote a planning officer. Breach of due process was added to by this condition being tabled with others at a February 6 meeting of Haccombe with Combe PC from which Amelia Cooper- Smith, then a member, did not recuse herself.

The erection went quickly ahead to general surprise and anger, partly because other 'unfair' developments were well known in a generally timid parish.

The excavation would have required removal by at least 17 fifteen tonne lorries. I never had access to the site - notice and padlock, but 'drone' footage shows no sunken path around the construction. In a web site advertising yoga lessons (only 12 monthly flower arranging talks allowed in the outline conditions) - 'stunning views over the estuary' were spoken of. This was made more easy by later construction of a second storey verandah on the east end of the erection. ?Permission.