I note from an article in this newspaper that the Planning Authority stated that it will be holding individual meetings with residents on the Paceville master plan.

When I read that I thought that is good but later in the article the plan to divide and conquer became clear.

How can anyone have any faith in a process which isolates individuals for ‘consultation’ and does not allow the public and appropriate ‘group reaction’, which is more likely to be more open and far less intimidated by officialdom.

A ‘one-on-one ‘consultation’ in a closed office situation, even if minutes were to be taken and published, makes it easy for officials to bamboozle people who are not used to public speaking or the ways of bureaucrats, overawe them and effectively silence them.

Let the authorities come clean, be not only accessible but very openly public and honest rather than compound the impression of unreasonable haste with ulterior motive as they are clearly doing now.

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