Sounds like the usual KCC 'consultation' process in operation once again.
I've just checked the dictionary and, sure enough, the word 'consultation' reads ..."the due process given by public bodies when nonsensical decisions are given legitimacy by asking half a dozen alcoholics a series of questions they don't understand or care about, and presenting the results as a genuine
vox pop that cost millions to stage."
Silly me.

I thought it involved asking those concerned. In this case, one would have thought that Whitfield Parish Council would have been invited to offer their two penneth. They haven't.
