The Parish Council are on the warpath so we have a cunning plan

I have been checking the Parish Council notice board for some weeks now, waiting to see what negative comments they would make on our last (withdrawn) application. For some reason, the meeting they held in early January has only now just been minuted and posted. Rather than just a comment about the visual effect of our house, the parish council have now decided to go for broke. They still feel that our little house would detract from the visual aspects when entering the village, but they now also say that our plot plan is flawed (?), and that they insist on no accommodation in the roof space.

However, the killer punch is that the parish council have voted that their chairman should attend the District Council planning committee meeting when our plan is to be considered, specifically to object to it. How bizarre is that? One of my work colleagues is a parish councillor, and was chairman for 10 years. Not once did anyone from his parish council go to the District Council Planning meeting to object, even though they often opposed major developments in his village.

We really seem to have upset someone, don't we?

Well, it seems that the odds are now stacked against us getting planning permission for our wee house, so we have a cunning plan..............

Baldrick of Clifton