17_6_2008 MP for North Devon - WRRG

17_6_2008 MP for North Devon to WRRG
Further to my meeting with you and other members of the Windsor Road Residents Group
a) This does now seem a matter for the Local Government Ombudsman having exhausted all other avenues of enquiry.
b) On the basis of the discussion I feel the Group's complaint has not fallen outside the 12 month time limit (arguably the failure to resolve the matter with the local authority either dates from NDC's reponse of 19th February or 15th May 2008) and indeed the Ombudsman does have a level of discretion.
c) clearly the S106 obligation rests with the new owner, who is calling the NDC's bluff if they have stated they would rather go to court than accept it. The question therefore remains why NDC failed to enforce the S106