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Dave1
I hope that you will allow me to advise/give a view/let you know,
The council is, and always has been officer led, where the councillors play lip service to what should be achieved, there are so many instances of this.
The planning dept has featured in many threads and until we get a positive outlook from them, not much will change.
Now back to the councillors, sadly we are in a difficult postion, we rely on those that can commit the time to councils, but may welk not be the best for the job.
Commiting time means your a businessperson, unemployed or OAP
maybe not the best people.
Of those that do get elected if we look at the District council, we could probably get away with 15 cllrs rather than the present 45
as many do very little, are not known to the electorate, and give a bad name to councillors.
Councillors do get an allowance but no where near enough to compensate losing a wage, thus the wrong people put up, or those that would make good councillors cant afford the time off work so we end up with the same ones.
One idea would be to reduce the number of cllrs and have so many full time, but with a remit of accountability9not just every 4 years via ballot box)