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dave

‘major independednt audit’

That’s a joke, the UK planning officers will spend six weeks being wine and dined and fed information from the planning dept, they will then write a report which will be heavily edited by planning, (to include exactly what planning want) before it is finally released. How much is this ‘independent audit’ costing the taxpayers?

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Blue Knight

Why will it take a number of officers to visit the island for six weeks, to review the processes of the Island’s Planning Department? Can’t this be done by one officer examining the processes in the U.K., by sending the information as an attachment to an e-mail and discussing the issues by video conferencing? More jobs for the boys and more money wasted.

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C Le Verdic

‘Why will it take a number of officers to visit the island for six weeks, to review the processes of the Island’s Planning Department?’

Because we’ve all got to tighten our belts so that those who have always done all right may continue to do all right.

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Julie

When the Chief Planning Officer’s job was advertised 2-3 years ago, you had to have a management as well as a planning qualification to be eligible to apply. I read here recently that the successful candidate is on £107k pa. If the States are paying such a high salary to someone who has a management as well as planning qualification and knows the system, why isn’t (s)he capable of streamlining and making cost-saving changes? Anyone coming in will have to familiarise themselves with the system before suggesting changes. Maybe the States should be reviewing the efficiency and effectiveness of their Chief Planner?

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Leah Holmes

#3 Blue Knight, probably because the UK has had a horrible, wet summer!

I would have expected this on April 1st!

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PJ

It seems this is the new trend of the states now, how many more ‘experts’ will come across and be wined and dined at one of the top hotels so we can spend a big portion of tax payers hard earned cash, no doubt each depatrment will use this tactic.

What a disgrace!!

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truthseeker

Can this oversized overpaid civil service do nothing for itself….always they go running to someone else who has to be paid, fed watered and accommodated and when the report is gathering dust on a shelf somewhere later fades into obscurity or is just openly ignored….but Aha if questioned upon it later or by a new political upstart..they can dodge the issue saying it was not us…so we have rafts of these salary drawing people.who duck responsibility for the issues by hiding behind yet another report or heaven forbid expert……they’re taking the you know what.it is no puzzle to me why this place is in the state it is …and spare me the recession B/S as there are well managed buisnesses here thriving …it is simply apalling wastefulness and wilfull reneging of responsibility which to me is taking money under false pretences..to say nothing of the credit card fiasco.

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The Jersey Bull

If Senior Civil Servants up at planning can’t sort out the department and correct their bungling inefficiencies, then they should all be fired – I mean just how much have these senior Civil parasites cost this Island over the past fifteen years and what the hell has they ever done for the Island, other than accommodate the carpetbagging developers and look after their pensions and bonuses? What in God’s name do these these people think they have been getting paid for?

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Cathy

It doesn’t take Einstein to see that planning applications have reduced by a third compared to 2007.

Perhaps the more senior management could go to the UK for a week – converse by telephone and email on their return – and submit recommendations themselves?

Anyone submitting any type of application has to jump through hoops, it may be time for a little bit of departmental research?

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WeThePeople

So we have massive unemployment for an island of our size.. A population of 100k+ and no immigration control.

Our government has loads of managers that can’t escape a wet paperbag without someone holding their hand.

Our COM and ministerial govt and bloated civil service are totally unaccountable and unfit.

We must do one of the following:

1. Empower managers to make decisions and suffer the consequences
2. Allow the public a democratic way of entering the decision process. I believe it is called a referendum. Collating 100k+ answers would probably be quicker than engaging external consultants, them writing a report, the COM doctoring it and then publishing it with recomendations which are ignored anyway.
3. In the case of plannign Freddie must be stopped. FULL STOP. The man is a liability – one man should not have the say over the desecration and raping of the island.
4. A census must be held. Immigration must stop. Once we know how many people are here, then the qualies threshold can be lowered and we can stop building tacky apartments and then produce a proper immigration strategy.
5. WEB must be disbanded – this is a quango of people who are being paid to make the island look like Milton Keynes without any former knowledge of the subject matter.
6. Go back to the department style of government until Clothier is implemented.
7. Bring back capital punishment and get rid of the namby pamby liberal handout state.
8. Reemploy all states workers on new contracts banning union member ship. If they refuse we currently have 1300 unemployed people who would be grateful for a job.

P.S. I am local, I am unemployed, I do have children and a large mortgage. No I’m not rich, xenophobic or racist. I am a tax paying, law abiding concerned citizen who is seeing this island ruined, and can also see we are building up serious problems for the immediate and long term future.

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