The Story so Far ...
Who signed the Call-In? (good)
In September 2006 Cllr Roger Symonds 'called-in' a decision by made the Council's Executive to demolish St Martins Garden Primary School and build a supermarket on the Hayesfield Playing Field / St Martins Garden Primary School. St Martins would be relocated to a smaller site. Read the Executive's Report here.
On 3rd October 2006 the Council's Planning, Transport and Sustainability Overview & Scrutiny Panel agreed by 4 to 2 that the call-in was justified. See how the Bath Chronicle reported the meeting.
On 11th October at 10am the Executive was asked to reconsider the Local Plan in the light of the call-in. An amendment was proposed by Cllr Colin Darracott that would stop a supermarket being built and would potentially Save St Martins. Cllr Darracott was supported by three other Cabinet Members. The other five voted against, and so the proposals stay in the plan.
On 12 October at 6.30pm all the councillors had a vote on the Local Plan at Full Council. An amendment was narrowly passed that will make the possbility of a supermarket being able to be built on the site significantly less likely. By default (because only the massive budget of a supermarket chain could have funded the rebuilding of St Martins) that meant that St Martins is much safer than it was.
In November and December there was a six week consultation period on the Local Plan.
In late March the Local Plan was passed by Full Council. An amendment to take St Martins out of the development site was passed!
The amended Local Plan is now out to consultation for another 6 weeks. Given the support at Full Council this does not appear to be any more than a formality.
Roger Symonds
Carol Paradise
Gitte Dawson
Rosemary Todd
Lynda Hedges
Gail Coleshill
Sarah Bevan
Steve Hedges
Nigel Roberts
Mike Kelleher
Who upheld the Call-In? (good)
Dave Dixon
Caroline Roberts
Marie Brewer
Ruth Griffiths
Who voted to dismiss the Call-In? (bad)
David Hawkins Chris Cray
Who voted for the amendment? (good)
Paul Crossley
Nicole O'Flaherty
Colin Darracott
Gerry Curran
Who voted against the amendment?(bad)
Sir Elgar Jenkins
Jonathan Gay
Vic Pritchard
Malcolm Hanney
Francine Haeberling
Who voted for the amendment? (good)
Tim Ball, Sharon Ball, Brian Barrett, Gail Coleshill, Paul Crossley, Gerry Curran, Colin Darracott, David Dixon, Hilary Fraser, Andy Furse, Ruth Griffiths, Steve Hedges, Lynda Hedges, Adrian Inker, Mike Kelleher, Keith Kirwan, Jane Lewis, Shaun McGall, Marian McNeir, Peter Metcalfe, Nicole O'Flaherty, Carol Paradise, Caroline Roberts, Nigel Roberts, Dine Romero, Roger Symonds and Rosemary Todd.
Who voted against the amendment (bad)
Colin Barrett, Tim Bullamore, Bryan Chalker, Chris Cray, Sally Davis, Phyllis Gay, Jonathan Gay, Charles Gerrish, Francine Haeberling, Malcolm Hanney, David Hawkins, Sir Elgar Jenkins OBE, Les Kew, Bryan Organ, Vic Pritchard, Michael Ringham, Martin Veal, Tim Warren, Chris Watt, Sarah Webb, Stephen Willcox and Gordon Wood
Who didn't vote? (unhelpful)
John Bailey, Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst, Ian Dewey and Leila Wishart
Final amendment
The Council minutes aren't available yet to tell us who voted which way. However we understand that some of those that voted against or abstained above did a u-turn to finally come out in support of St Martins.
Thank you to all those councillors who supported our school.
