AndyF
New member
Hi Sam,
I know the Peak do do a lot of good, BUT they also have a considerable record of totally unreasonable, dictatorial and downright brainless actions.
My comment reflects that this authority is totally unaccountable to the people whose lives they affect. Why is this? Would you accept a local council that you couldn't elect? Of course not...so why should anyone accept the Peak Authority imposed on us.
A friend of mine has recently been ordered to stop parking his vehicle at his house, on his own drive which is half a mile down a track. Vehicles have been parked there for decades. Now he's been told he has to prove that it's been used like that for 7 years. It's cost him time, stress, money on solicitors and is a total waste of taxpayers money. Thats just a small example.. This is the sort of thing that an out-of-control bureaucratic organisation does.
So yes, I want these people to be accountable. I want to get to vote on their policies, like I can for a council, and have some genuine choices, not have policy imposed by the whim of a bureaucrat. And when/if they misbehave, yes, I want to vote them out and replace them with people who have policies that reflect what the people who live here want. I want policies that encourage business, and let the park area grow and prosper, rather than be run as a mothballed tourist attraction...
GRRRR!!
I know the Peak do do a lot of good, BUT they also have a considerable record of totally unreasonable, dictatorial and downright brainless actions.
My comment reflects that this authority is totally unaccountable to the people whose lives they affect. Why is this? Would you accept a local council that you couldn't elect? Of course not...so why should anyone accept the Peak Authority imposed on us.
A friend of mine has recently been ordered to stop parking his vehicle at his house, on his own drive which is half a mile down a track. Vehicles have been parked there for decades. Now he's been told he has to prove that it's been used like that for 7 years. It's cost him time, stress, money on solicitors and is a total waste of taxpayers money. Thats just a small example.. This is the sort of thing that an out-of-control bureaucratic organisation does.
So yes, I want these people to be accountable. I want to get to vote on their policies, like I can for a council, and have some genuine choices, not have policy imposed by the whim of a bureaucrat. And when/if they misbehave, yes, I want to vote them out and replace them with people who have policies that reflect what the people who live here want. I want policies that encourage business, and let the park area grow and prosper, rather than be run as a mothballed tourist attraction...
GRRRR!!
