TEN YEARS AGO
Residents express anger at bizarre planning decision Residents and councillors have expressed their anger at a bizarre decision to grant permission for a block of flats on the site of a former Bushey pub. Proposals to build a three-storey block of flats on the site of the former Otter Pub, in Bushey Mill Lane, were twice rejected by the Bushey and Aldenham planning committee, in September 2009 and June 2010. But on the second appeal, planning inspectors overturned the committee s decision. Councillor Roger Kutchinsky (Bushey North, Liberal Democrats) said: I think it s a completely bizarre decision. I m shocked and disappointed the planning inspector decided to overrule us. This is an example of us being dictated to by central government and it is a monstrosity.