It's another of those pernicious practices. An embedded anti-transparency agenda among officers of a local council whose arrogance knows no limits. We are promised that we will be able to see the full terms of the lease given to RSPB/NT for Burbage etc. only after the lease has been signed. While it's still being discussed we are kept in the dark. Quote:
"The signed lease will of course be a public document and available to anyone that wishes to see it."
Similarly when SCC and SWT were discussing the present lease on Blacka Moor the council's law officer did not allow the public to see a copy of the Graves Covenant.
They really do think we have no rights in these matters. Officers in councils across the country have this view of us, the public, as small children past our bedtimes. Yet they themselves regularly get things wrong. The point about transparency is we sometimes see (and understand ) things they don't.
Why, I wonder, should any commercial sensitivity exist between the public and large charities that receive all sorts of advantages denied to private individuals?
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