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Spring Quiz answers

Congratulations to Peter Exton, a Housing Development Consultant and a triathlete, who wins the Thorncliffe Spring Quiz. For those who attempted it and who want to know the answers, here they are:

  1. Under what circumstances should a planning applicant submit ownership Certificate D?

When submitting an application on a site where the applicant only owns part of the land and does not know the identity of any of the other owners.

  1. Name either of the two towns (one in England, one in Scotland) that were previously Cities but are no longer.

Elgin (Scotland) and Rochester-upon-Medway (England).

  1. The three longest serving Labour council leaders in London, Robin Wales, Steve Bullock and Claire Kober, are all retiring at this May’s elections. Name one of the four Labour council leaders who have been in post since May 2010 who are likely (unless deposed) to be the joint longest serving Labour borough leaders.

Julian Bell (Ealing), Doug Taylor (Enfield), Stephen Alambritis (Merton), Peter John (Southwark).

  1. Who is the longest-serving Conservative council leader in London at the moment?

Ray Puddifoot (Hillingdon)

  1. Link the council to the scandal which forced its leader’s resignation:

5.1  Council awarding contracts to the leader’s personal physiotherapist

Cheshire East

5.2 Agreeing unlawful payments to the chief executive’s pension pot

Carmarthenshire

5.3 Forcing officers to change a bypass route to make the leader’s land more valuable

Lincolnshire

5.4 Failing to solve a three month strike of bin workers

Birmingham

5.5 Failing to audit applicants for new taxi licenses

South Ribble

  1. Which city has a boundary which extends many miles outside the urban area along the banks of a river – including just the river and no land?

Norwich, down the River Yare. It’s a legacy of centuries of mediaeval disputes between Great Yarmouth and Norwich about river traffic; the right of Norwich to control the river was confirmed by a Charter of Queen Mary in 1556.

  1. Name the TV series which feautured these fictitious local councillors.

7.1 Freddie Patterson

An Independent Man

7.2 K. Edwards and Vijay Shah

Little Napoleons

7.3 Augustus Bent and Mrs Smallgood

Swizzlewick

7.4 Austin Donohue

Our Friends in the North

7.5 Cox and Evans

The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer

  1. What factor links the following councils in recent years? Rotherham, Isle of Anglesey, Northamptonshire, Tower Hamlets, Doncaster?

All have been partly or wholly run by appointed commissioners due to failures by the political leadership.

9.  In what way did the Local Government Association take over from the Labour Party, and the European Parliament take over from the Conservative Party?

They have taken their Smith Square headquarters buildings. Transport House (18 Smith Square), formerly the Labour Party HQ, is now the headquarters of the Local Government Association. 32 Smith Square, formerly Conservative Central Office, is now the London base for the European Parliament.

10.  Since 2016 the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition are both former members of local authorities. When was the last time that both main parties had leaders who had served in local government?

May 1940, when the Conservatives were led by Neville Chamberlain (former Birmingham City Councillor) and Labour by Clement Attlee (former Mayor of Stepney, although never elected as a councillor).

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Smooth operation

Many thanks for last night: a very smooth operation!

Message was very welcome

Was a great result – especially to receive unanimous approval! Many thanks also for you and your team’s work in the run up to the committee. Getting those messages across really helped and was evident by the feedback given by members on both sides of the political spectrum … notably on the successfully engagement with residents and how the scheme responded accordingly. Message was very welcome!

On point

Harry was on point and has been the whole way through. We are all very chuffed. We are already preparing for another rather testing application on another site and you can be certain that we will engage you

Appreciated

Thanks Richard, your help has been much appreciated. Will let you know when the next job comes up!

Big guns!

Thanks for your and the team’s help. It was good to know we had the proverbial big guns in our armoury!

You kept calm

Many thanks for that: your team did very well, and kept a lot calmer than me! Matt was a sensible wise head, as was Alex, but he also made me think succinctly for the questions and how to answer, which is a great skill to try and acquire. Especially for someone as verbose as me!

A unanimous approval

Councillors praised both officers and the developer on their work and engagement.

A unanimous approval 5-0

With your help

Really pleased to hear the news this evening

With your help, we got it through !!!!

Best Regards!

Truly excellent example

Great news that we approved 60 houses on green belt last night.

It was tremendous that the Chair said that this was a “truly excellent example of good consultation…”

Gave me more confidence

Thank you – we were both somewhat surprised given the level of objections but in fact the committee hardly discussed the scheme at all before consenting it.

Thanks to your team for preparing me well for the committee which certainly gave me more confidence.

A big relief

Thank you. A big relief. As I am sure you can appreciate, we are delighted!

Your team did a great job, especially Matt who was integral.

I look forward to catching up soon.

Unanimous

196 flats approved unanimously, thanks to all involved.

Professional and effective

I wanted to thank you and all at Thorncliffe for managing the consultation process so professionally and effectively. This, without doubt, played a crucial role in gaining the approval.

Once again, all our thanks.

Was a good result

Cant remember the last time I got anything through unanimously!

Was a good result, it’s the right scheme for the site and of course we had a great team including yourselves working on it,

First class troops

Richard. Your troops did a first class job as always. Many thanks

Praise for communityUK

Well done for the way you presented tonight’s online consultation. I thought it was an excellent format.

Great result last night

I just wanted to say thank you again for all your help with the great result last night.

You have been tremendous and it is much appreciated.

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