B&Q: Council cannot hope to win appeal

B&Q has confirmed it will launch an appeal against the council's decision to refuse permission for the controversial application for a store on land adjacent to Pevensey Bay Road.

I assume when B&Q win the appeal then the councilors will personally pay the £200,000 cost and not the tax payers. Or may the resident of the Eastbourne Marina will pay, since they all knew that warehouse type retail park was planned for the site BEFORE they moved in or did they developers not tell them.

Every one who lives around the area knew about this planned development, even Eastbourne Council, so multistory blocks are OK, that change the sky line of the coast for ever, but a low rise warehouse on a contaminated site is not. I suspect some incentives were involved is these decisions.

Updated: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:08