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DDC are the Local Planning Authority who will make the decision, DDC as a body have not and are not currently campaigning for the adoption of the CGI proposals. DDC have received and posted the planning application so that we can all read it, understand it and make our submissions on it, whether those submissions are in favour of all or part of the proposed development or whether those submissions are against the proposals in whole or in part. Once the period for submissions is over, the DDC will examine the entire application, taking into account the submissions that have been made, the consultations that have taken place etc. and will make known whether or not they have granted the planning permissions required and what modifications, if any, CGI need to make to their proposals in order to meet the requirements of the Planning Authority and address any technical or heritage issues raised by consultees and members of the public who have made submissions.
There may well be some individual councillors in favour of this development, just as there are those councillors who are against it. But the body (DDC) itself, whilst welcoming the application, has not embarked on a campaign to sell or develop the heights and Farthingloe.
WHPS have not and are not currently campaigning in favour (or against) the CGI proposals. Paul has said time and again that the WHPS are examining the proposals and will make a submission on them to DDC as per the legal and planning process and that the WHPS submission when it comes will be the result of careful and open minded study of the documentation that has been presented and consultation with its membership in order to ascertain their views.
The list of parties/bodies/corporate entities currently actively campaigning for the adoption of the CGI proposals is really rather short - just the one - China Gateway International. To suggest that either DDC or WHPS are campaigning to concrete over the heights and Farthingloe is a falsehood.