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Councillors have defended “putting their money where their mouth is” over a failed £180,000 Derbyshire planning appeal. A Derbyshire Dales District Council meeting last week saw councillors discuss the £181,619 cost of fighting an appeal for 87 homes at Leys Farm, off Wyaston Road, in Ashbourne.
Government planning inspector Hayley Butcher allowed the plans at appeal, from Woodall Homes, following a public inquiry at Matlock Town Hall. Cllr Sue Hobson, leader of the council’s Conservative group, said: “We are talking a lot of money here which could be used for other things. We can’t keep spending this money every year.”
Cllr Peter Dobbs said the £180,000 cost of the appeal was “not insignificant”, saying: “Robustly defending decisions that have been democratically made by a planning committee should be taken as consequential as to the existence of that committee. I can assure members that we do take the consequences of
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