Charters Wynn makes a reasonable case in portraying Tomsky as a “moderate” Bolshevik referring most of all to Tomsky’s cautious political perspective on what the party could and should do as a revolutionary party.
“I do not think your traffic review has been done fairly. Redbridge are the developers here and the traffic review was done by Redbridge.
“You’re putting more than 600 people on this site but you’re telling me that’s only going to cause one extra car on the road? That’s unbelievable.
“If this was an external developer, this would have been kicked out ages ago.”
There were 53 written objections to the plans, including from neighbouring Loxford School.
Cllr Shamshia Ali (Lab, Cranbrook) responded: “The difficulty is, we do have a (housing) shortage and where do you put developments? It does not matter where you put them, there’s always going to be issues.”