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PLANS to build a chalet-style bungalow on a poultry farm have been thrown out. Mr Challen has been refused permission for a new three-bed home for his family at Challen’s Chicks (farm), on Marsh Lane, in Taplow.
Planning committee members said it ‘did not meet the requirement for exceptional circumstances’.
PICTURED: What the chalet-style bungalow would have looked like The new build was to help maintain the farm which is largely centred on laying hens and egg sales, which the applicant claims is a “viable” business. Permission for a mobile home for a period of three was granted in 2018.
She says that there was no other auditor within the service with the experience and expertise necessary to complete this complex piece of work.
At December’s special meeting of the audit and accounts committee on December 23 “it was agreed that I would take personal oversight of appointing an appropriately qualified external auditor following a swift procurement exercise – with a view to them starting work immediately”.
Her reasons were set out in a public statement which said she was under pressure from council leader Steve Count and audit committee chairman Mike Shellens to wrap up the report quickly.
Mrs Beasley said there was also the need to release the findings of the report prior to May’s elections and the period ahead of it known as purdah which prohibits much council activity.
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