sheepgate

Funny place Havering. It's in Essex in case you didn't know.

Last year the planning committee at the Council had to consider an application for planning permission to site a mobile home on a farm alongside rare breeds of horses and sheep.........
........and the fun began because throughout the meeting councillors heard repeated baaing and bleating sounds?!

Spurred on by a complaint from one of their number the Council has been trying to find the guilty culprit ever since. After spending £10,000 and producung a 300 page report the list of suspects is down to 4. A sub committee will interview them all next month.

What made matters worse was that the chairman of the committee in calling for the votes for permission heard the sound baa and added it in as a vote in favour with the eventual decision being to grant permission 5 votes for and 4 against. There were only 9 councillors present and one has sworn an affidavit that she did not vote at all and at the key time was out of the room.

The names of those being interviewed has so far been a closely kept secret......
......until today, when lawyers, Sue Grabbit and Run, for Shaun the Sheep, went to the High Court and successfully secured an injunction preventing the sub committee taking any further action against their client.

They argued that the Council were acting in breach of their clients rights as a sheep by including one Councillor Bull on the sub committee!

So now we are down to 3.

And my money is on a certain Councillor Scrooge....and the hearing date - 22 December.

Bah Humbug!