I went to an unusually lively Highways Committee last night. The most controversal item was a proposal to install some parking meters on Preston Road and Bridge Road. Remarkably we took far longer on that item than on Brent's Local Implementation Plan (LIP), which is the main vehicle to determine our transport investment over the next four years.
We also had a number of threats from members of the public that we would be taken to court over the parking meter decision. Making threats of this nature seems to be becoming increasingly fashionable.
Cllr Paul Lorber added his own peculiar twist to the meeting by threatening to report us to the Local Government Ombudsman for maladministration. This is on the somewhat obscure ground that the decision to go ahead with emissions based parking permits was taken by the Director of Environment under delegated powers rather than a meeting of the Executive.
I find such a concentration on process hard to understand.
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