‘Poor awareness beggars belief ’

I HAVE recently had a planning application for an extension to a care home turned down by Staffordshire Moorlands District Council’s planning committee.

Nothing wrong with that and I respect their decision – even if it was based on incorrect information.

What has really shocked me though, is the fact that they do not even have a planning policy which specifically refers to old people and disabled people in care homes.

They haven’t got a clue how many care homes there are, or how many beds they provide for old and disabled people.

How, therefore, can they know how many more facilities are required.

They refer you to the Staffordshire Moorlands local plan of February 2018 which is a document with 308 pages.

I could find barely one line which talks about old people in care homes,

Contrast that with the two full pages devoted to gypsy, travellers and travelling showpeople’s needs for accommodation.

Well done Staffordshire Moorlands planners, you are doing a great job.

It beggars belief. Robert Smith Nottingham

Perhaps it’s about time the royals wade in and gave us their opinion for a change as they are presently kept by the tax payer.

So come on, Charles, give us your shout you owe us for hunting on our land free of charge for all those years and tell those misguided youngsters and so-called politicians where they are going wrong before there’s anarchy in this country.

Hiring President Donald Trump for five years would not be a bad idea, I think.

■ When a tax-payers’ subsidiary is being wasted like it is at Waterhouses then surely the time has come to scrap this payment and put this money into your local hospitals and other needy causes.

I refer to the example of Waterhouses, where two-thirds of their precept is spent on grass cutting. In my opinion this task could be done on a voluntary basis.

I think time back it was called community adhesion to which Mr Brown recently described as what community to which has been long gone and taken over by a handful of control freaks and definitely not like it was 80 to 90 years ago when church wardens were real church wardens unlike our present example that have been reduced to church mice so what does this letter say an overhaul of the complete system is urgently needed. Frank Bradbury Leek and Calton