tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79400596685320658972024-03-12T20:13:44.828-07:00Cosmic ClaireCosmic Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01956437927031336935noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940059668532065897.post-83962297157802406522015-11-01T14:57:00.000-08:002015-11-02T02:19:25.063-08:00Leeds Trolleybus Inquiry Revisited…<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 26.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Leeds Trolleybus Inquiry </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is now a year and a day since the Leeds Trolleybus
Vehicle System Order Inquiry was completed, or as it is known better to some of
us, The Leeds Trolleybus Inquiry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We understand that the Inspector,
Mr Martin Whitehead, did, as promised, duly submit his report to the Secretary
of State about the time of the election in May. Some small progress has been made in the removal of the original
supremo, Mr Robert Goodwill, from the decision making position, due to his former
clearly stated view in favour long before the plans were developed or the
Public Inquiry carried out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Full detail on this story and all
other ongoing news in recent times is to be found on the blog page of the Stop
The Trolleybus campaign.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But are we any closer to finding
out the decision?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Councillor James Lewis still
claims that the case for the trolleybus is ‘compelling’, Mr Dave Haskins of NGT
has been globe trotting telling the world how Britain is taking the lead in
exciting new transport developments with his trolleybus </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/letters/yep-letters-october-20-1-7523875">http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/letters/yep-letters-october-20-1-7523875</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and a letter to the Telegraph </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">claims that “There are now as
many trolleybus systems running worldwide as there are trams, <b><i><u>and
Leeds will have such a system in 2020</u></i></b>” Perhaps this gentleman knows something we others in the public
don’t? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We have often seen the shadowy
presence of Tbus, a trolleybus promotional group working here and there in the
NGT campaign and this is just the kind of trick that they would pull, hoping
that <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the Minister will chance upon such a letter as he leafs th<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rough the papers over his morning<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> coffee</span></span></span>.
Neurolinguistic and predictive programming are well recognised
psychological techniques whereby suggestions are put to recipients of such
information which already assume the desired outcomes in veiled ways, couched
behind other statements. But this is no
more than a convenient lie and doubtless the writer knows it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emeritus Professor of Transport
Planning Peter Bonsall was quick off the mark in repost. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He and the illustrious Gregory
Jones QC took up many fascinating hours last summer picking apart the
trolleybus scheme, and demonstrated amongst other things that trolleybus
schemes are disruptive to traffic when they do not have fully segregated lanes,
as would occur along this route, and that with the new advances in battery bus
technology this much more flexible option is to be preferred. This is not to mention even that NGT
witnesses admitted it would cause more congestion than at present, and the fact
that the business case was brought into serious doubt when the laughable
examples of ‘public consultation’ were exposed. You would have to listen to the audio recordings to believe it
was possible. Which conveniently, you
can do, here. (More on that later.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Index of which can be found here</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So what we have seen in recent
time is a war of words to influence the final decision of the Minister, who
should really be following the advice of the Inspector.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We as the Objectors felt that it
was us, and First West Yorkshire who had the <i>‘compelling’</i> case, as the
Professor and Mr Jones dismantled the case presented by NGT.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We have been told that a decision
may well take until the end of the year, so we should not be impatient, but
there are still matters of concern which are at last coming into the light of
day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was always dissatisfied with
the attitude of Leeds City Council, Metro and NGT towards the documentation of
the proceedings of the Public Inquiry.
It may well be the case, as the Inspector told me more than once, that
the recordings which our Objectors group made of all the sessions of the
Inquiry, and which I co-ordinated the uploading of on my Mixcloud site </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cannot be accepted as an official
record of the Inquiry. However, I
raised the matter of a formal record of the Inquiry with various different
people and they were all adamant that there was to be no official record,
neither audio nor a written transcript.
Mr Whitehead had no personal secretary and made all his own notes. Perhaps for that he can be thought to have
earned his £630 per day, but how can we be sure that every detail he wrote down
is correct, if there is no objective record?
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was a matter of some alarm to
us in the Objectors group that it was some weeks into the Inquiry before Mr
Whitehead apparently became aware that the trolleybus route was not fully
segregated. Probably the single most
important factor in whether a system such as this would improve or harm the
existing state of affairs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And with Cllr Lewis claiming that
the case is ‘compelling’, then we surely must have the compelling points
explained to us, since we cannot see them.
Besides which, the idea of compulsion is somewhat repugnant, but the
pugnacious bully boy of Metro is determined to compel us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, it may be that I in my
humble estate was unable to prevail upon Leeds CC or the Inspector to set about
the institution of a formal record, but those perhaps more recognised by their
positions have set matters in motion which need to be resolved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Professor Christopher Todd has
dug out some information about Public Inquiries which we should all have known
before this began, and it has been drawn to the attention of Greg Mulholland,
MP for the constituency through which much of the route would travel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So I have reprised my pursuit of
the goal of some recognition of the need for a public record and wrote this to
the Yorkshire Evening Post the other day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">There is a debate behind the
scenes of the trolleybus inquiry which will not go away.</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">At the pre-Inquiry meeting last
year I asked if an audio recording or video live stream would be made available.
Councillor John Illingworth also supported this request, and put it to Leeds
CC. At the time I asked the Inspector if it would be acceptable for the
public to make recordings, and I was told yes. </span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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Illingworth informed me that LCC claimed it was too expensive and that no
recordings would be made.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">With the co-operation of
concerned Objectors I co-ordinated our own recordings and uploads of this
material. Unofficial though these were, they were referred to many, many
times during the Inquiry, by the Inspector himself, counsel and witnesses.</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">The Objectors have always been
disappointed that officials of LCC such as James Lewis were dismissive of the
need for a public record.</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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that this was the subject of legislation and guidance.</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">In </span></span><i><span style="color: black;">A Guide to Public Inquiries, </span></i><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">put out by the Office of the
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INQUIRY 3.11 The proceedings will be recorded so that a transcript can be
produced should one be required.”</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">And when Inquiries Act 2005 was
examined in select committee</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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evidence” was stressed. Otherwise people “are largely left painfully to acquire
such knowledge for themselves.”</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">It is my understanding that this
shortcoming in the lack of official recordings or transcripts has been drawn to
the attention of Greg Mulholland, MP, who one hopes will pursue the matter.</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">Certainly it is unsatisfactory
that there should be no official public record of proceedings which ran to 72
days over six months and cost Leeds taxpayers several million pounds.</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">This has not yet been published,
but it is my hope that it will be, and then with the support of an MP there may
at last be questions asked of people who need to give better answers than they
have in the past. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">As one who has long been unhappy
with the shilly-shallying of Leeds City Councillors it would not in the least
surprise me if the avoidance of the making of a formal public record was
somewhere in the back of someone’s mind as a get out if the evidence was
required to be subjected to further scrutiny.
If it wasn’t, one is left to consider the abject lack of standards that
could lead to the expenditure of some £2.6 million pounds on an inquiry into an
infrastructure project that would radically transform the areas affected and be
expected to run for some 60 years or so, and there is no actual record of the
evidence that was given. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">This is really crucial. When I approached Cllr Lewis about this, all
he was interested in were the documents which NGT entered, and neither did he
attend the Inquiry as a witness to be examined on this, nor did he even come to
listen to the examinations of others or Objectors evidence. He claims not to have even listened to the
recordings online. So he has absolutely no idea of the shortcomings of the
scheme as exposed by both the professionals as well as the local amateurs
opposed to it.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">As a political cynic from way
back, forgive me for saying, but this looks like an attempt at a whitewash to
me. I can’t speak for the Inspector,
perhaps his hands were tied in ways we don’t know, but the dismal disregard for
the needs or rights of the local citizenry to even know what was going on at
the Inquiry should call the entire bid by Leeds City Council into doubt. The truth fears no investigation, and if the
likes of Cllr Lewis and his cronies are so convinced that their case is
compelling, they won’t have any difficulties in endorsing the recordings which
the Objectors group and I made public for the greater good.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">This is all rather reminiscent of
how the Inquiry began, when Chris Foren, Chair of the A660 Joint Council
requested the release of feedback material which had been given at consultation
events. The NGT team resisted for a
short time, but clearly their counsel, the erudite Neil Cameron QC will have
prevailed upon them to release this material, which they did before long.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">This is a much larger body of
material to transcribe, but if they are so convinced of their case, I hope they
won’t mind spending a little bit more of our Council Tax on making it
available, or at least endorsing the recordings (which were made at our own
expense), so that the material can be recognised for what it is, the only truly
objective record of the proceedings of the trolleybus inquiry, and be open to
scrutiny by a wider public. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="yiv1300508921"><span style="color: black;">It is as I have said, the Truth
Fears No Examination. I do not fear the
forensic examination of these recordings, either technically to verify that
they have not been altered beyond the needs of enhancement of audibility (as I
stated in an affidavit document to the Inquiry), nor in their spoken
contents. It is perhaps this latter
which the august Councillors who propose the NGT scheme fear, and why they
would prefer that there were no objective record, but only their quips and
soundbites, which find no support in the actual evidence as presented to the
Inquiry.</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leeds Trolleybus Inquiry </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Index of Audio Recordings</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span>The data here was extracted from my blog <a href="http://cosmicclaire.blogspot.co.uk/">http://cosmicclaire.blogspot.co.uk</a>. and compiled by David Tong, a supporter of the Stop The Trolleybus campaign, for which I am most grateful. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span>The blog includes a commentary on each session. The links without
the commentary are also available at <a href="http://a660.org/">http://a660.org/</a>.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span><b>Note: </b>When I began recording and blogging on this, I used the spelling 'Enquiry' and then a few days in I realised that it was officially being spelt 'Inquiry', but continued using my first spelling for the sake of continuity and consistency. Both spellings are accepted in the Oxford English Dictionary. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span> In reverse order, here is the entire Inquiry, bar a few minutes.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 72: 31.10.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-72a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-31-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-72a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-31-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;">In the first morning session of Day 72 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, the final day, Wednesday 31st October 2014, after
dealing with procedural matters and outstanding issues Neil Cameron QC
commences the Closing Statement on behalf of the Applicant NGT for the
trolleybus scheme proposals.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-72b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-31-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-72b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-31-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;">In the late morning of Day 72, and final session of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 31st October 2014, Neil Cameron QC
completes his Closing Statement on the NGT case for a trolleybus scheme.<span> </span>There is then a short time given over to
scheduling site visits including one to see First’s latest bus, some
outstanding questions are dealt with, and the Inspector draws the Enquiry to a
close, thanking everyone for their good manners and courtesy over the space of
the six months in which it has sat.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 71: 30.10.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-71a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-oct-2014-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-71a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-oct-2014-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 71 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry uncertainty still remains as to whether the Leeds
College of Art will be presenting its case or whether a settlement has been
reached.<span> </span>In addition there is a
somewhat fraught exchange between Gregory Jones QC, the Inspector Mr Whitehead
and Neil Cameron QC about the timing of the Applicant’s presentation of their
Closings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-71b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-oct-2014-midday-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-71b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-oct-2014-midday-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the short midday session of Day 71 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry we hear about the agreement which has ostensibly
‘more than likely’ been completed between the Leeds College of Art and the
Promoter, but not yet actually been signed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 70: 29.10.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-70a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-29-oct-2014-morning-session/" title="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-70a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-29-oct-2014-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-70a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-29-oct-2014-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the short morning session of Day 70 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 29th October 2014, there is discussion
about programming matters before adjournment until the afternoon.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-70b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-29-oct-2014-afternoon-session/" title="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-70b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-29-oct-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-70b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-29-oct-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of Day 70 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Wednesday 29th October 2014, Gregory Jones QC makes the Closing
Statement from First West Yorkshire after some delays for the printing of
documents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There was a brief adjournment after the first sixteen
minutes which I have represented by a two second gap before resumption for the
remainder of the afternoon.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 69: 28.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-morning-session/" title="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-morning-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the morning session of Day 69 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Tuesday 28<sup>th</sup> October 2014, there is extensive and
lengthy discussion of the Deemed Planning Permissions with respect to the
proposed NGT trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/" title="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 69 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 28<sup>th</sup> October 2014, there is
discussion of the Building Order with respect to the proposed NGT trolleybus
scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-mid-afternoon-session/" title="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-mid-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-mid-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the mid afternoon session o of Day 69 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 28<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Mr David
Graham for First West Yorkshire raises some points with respect to the Building
Order of the proposed NGT trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/" title="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-69d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-28-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 69 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 28<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Closing
Submissions are given on behalf of the Northwest Leeds Transport Forum,
Weetwood Residents and West Park Residents Associations.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 68: 23.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-68a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-oct-2014-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-68a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-oct-2014-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In morning session of Day 68 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public
Enquiry, Thursday 23rd October 2014, representatives from Leeds City Council,
NGT, First West Yorkshire and the North West Leeds Transport Forum as well as
local residents discuss the proposed Deemed Planning Permissions around the
trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-68b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-oct-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-68b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-oct-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In afternoon session of Day 68 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Thursday 23rd October 2014, representatives from Leeds City
Council, NGT, First West Yorkshire and the North West Leeds Transport Forum as
well as local residents continue to discuss the proposed Deemed Planning
Permissions around the trolleybus scheme</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 67: 22.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-67a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-67a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In first morning session of Day 67 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Wednesday 22nd October 2014, Mr Chris Foren, Chair of the A660
Joint Council completes his evidence and there is some cross examination.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-67b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-67b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In late morning session of Day 67 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Wednesday 22nd October 2014, Mr John Buchan, Ian Liptrot from
Belle Isle and Mr George Jennings give their evidence against the NGT
scheme.<span> </span>There is some examination, and
then Claire Randall firstly gives the audio visual evidence which was postponed
from her previous statement due to technical issues and then gives the case for
Brenda MacIntosh, local private objector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-67c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-67c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In early afternoon session of Day 67 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Wednesday 22nd October 2014, there is discussion around the
presentation of evidence by Mr Bill McKinnon, some of which is ostensibly new
to the Enquiry.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-67d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-67d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In late afternoon session of Day 67 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Wednesday 22nd October 2014, Mr Bill McKinnon gives his
slightly emended evidence on behalf of North Hyde Park Neighbourhood
Association and there is some examination.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 66: 21.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-66a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-66a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 66 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Tuesday 21st October 2014, Carol Carey Campbell, Publisher of
North Leeds Life, gives her case against the NGT scheme and is examined on her
case. </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-66b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-66b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 66 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 21st October 2014 Dr John Dickinson for the
Weetwood Residents Association gives evidence against the NGT scheme and is
cross examined on it by Neil Cameron QC and the Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-66c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-66c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoons session of Day 66 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 21st October 2014. Mrs Katie Fabri, local
Headingley resident gives her evidence against the NGT proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-66d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-66d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 64 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 21st October 2014, Professor John Griffiths
gives his evidence and is examined by Mr Walton.<span> </span>Mr Chris Foren, Chair of the A660 Joint Council commences his
case. </span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 65: 17.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-65a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-17-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-65a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-17-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 65 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, 17th October 2014, Mr Anzir Boodoo, a former student of
Transport Studies at Leeds University gives his case regarding the NGT
proposals and is examined on it.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-65b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-17-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-65b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-17-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the mid morning session of Day 64 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Friday, 17th October 2014, Mr Anzir Boodoo, a former student of
Transport Studies at Leeds University gives his case regarding the NGT proposals
and is examined on it.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-65c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-17-oct-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-65c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-17-oct-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoons session of Day 64 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Friday, 17th October 2014, 17th October 2014, Doug
Kemp gives the case against NGT for the West Park Residents and is followed by
Michael Broadbent, former Traffic Police Inspector..<span> </span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 64: 16.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 64 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Thursday 16th October 2014, Mr John Brooks gives his statement
of case and is examined by Gregory Jones QC for First West Yorkshire.<span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Due to the extreme quietness with which this witness spoke
it has been necessary to make numerous level adjustments in order to improve
audibility.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the mid morning session of Day 64 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Thursday 16th October 2014, Mr John Brooks for First West
Yorkshire, is examined on his evidence by Gregory Jones QC.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A short adjournment was taken a few minutes into this
session which I have represented with a two second gap joining the two segments
into one.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Due to the extreme quietness with which this witness spoke
it has been necessary to make numerous level adjustments in order to improve
audibility.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">Day
64c Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry 16 Oct 2014 Early Afternoon Session</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoons session of Day 64 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 16th October 2014, Neil Cameron QC
commences his examination of Mr John Brooks.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 64 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 16th October 2014, Neil Cameron QC cross
examines Mr John Brooks. Due to the extreme quietness with which this witness
spoke it has been necessary to make numerous level adjustments in order to
improve audibility.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 63: 15.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 63 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15th October 2014, is taken up with programming
matters and the matter of some late documents submitted by the Applicant.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-mid-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-mid-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the mid morning session of Day 63 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15th October 2014, Ms Katie Lightbody, expert
conservation witness for First West Yorkshire, gives her evidence in chief and
is examined on it by Gregory Jones QC.</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 63 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15th October 2014, Gregory Jones QC
concludes his examination of Ms Katie Lightbody, expert conservation witness
for First West Yorkshire, and is followed Mr Walton for the Applicant NGT.</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 63 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15th October 2014, Gregory Jones QC
re-examines Ms Katie Lightbody.</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63e-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-63e-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-15-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 63 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15th October 2014, the Inspector holds an
open round discussion on planning conditions should the TWA Order for the Applicant
be granted.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 62: 14.10.14</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 62 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14th October 2014, is taken up with programming matters
for some forty minutes.</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-mid-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-mid-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the mid morning session of Day 62 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14th October 2014, Mr John Reid, local resident,
retired planner and private objector gives his evidence against the NGT
scheme.<span> </span>Mrs Jenny Phelps, the operator
of a hair and beauty salon on Headingley Lane.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 62 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14th October 2014, Mr Nabarro gives the case
on behalf of Mrs S Baskind, owner of property on Shaw Lane corner and is
followed by Cllr Barry Anderson (C) Adel and Wharfedale, who is cross examined
on his case.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 62 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14th October 2014, Mr Geoff Steele gives the
case on behalf of Dr Ruth <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk401147686">Cunliffe </a>for the Adel
Association, and Cllr Jonathan Bentley (Cllr for Weetwood) speaks on his own
objection and on behalf of his constituents.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62e-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62e-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 62 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14th October 2014, Mr Nigel Sleeman gives
his case against the NGT scheme and is cross examined by both Mr Walton and the
Inspector.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 61: 10.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-61a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-61a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 6[1] of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Friday 9th Oct 2014, Mr Stuart Natkus on behalf of
Morley House Trust (LGHS) and other local Statutory Objectors, gives their
cases against the NGT proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-61b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-61b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 6[1]<span> </span>of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry,
Friday 9th Oct 2014, Mr Stuart Natkus on behalf of Morley House Trust (LGHS)
and other local Statutory Objectors, completes their cases against the NGT
proposals and Neil Cameron QC for the Applicant begins his cross examination.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-61c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-oct-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-61c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-oct-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of Day 6[1]<span> </span>of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry,
Friday 9th Oct 2014, Mr Stuart Natkus is cross examined by Neil Cameron QC for
the Applicant NGT as well as by the Inspector.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 60: 09.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 60 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 9th Oct 2014, retired town planner Mr Tony
Ray gives the Heritage case against the NGT scheme on behalf of the North West
Leeds Transport Forum.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 60 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 9th Oct 2014, Mrs Helen Pickering gives the
Heritage case against the NGT scheme on behalf of the Drummond and Churchwoods
Residents' Association.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of Day 60 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Thursday 9th Oct 2014, Mrs Helen Pickering completes the
Heritage case of the Drummonds and Churchwoods Residents' Association against
the trolleybus scheme and is then cross examined by Mr Walton for the Applicant
NGT and then by both Inspectors.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 59: 08.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt 1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;">In the
first<span> </span>morning session of Day 59 of the
Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 8th Oct 2014,<span> </span>Dawn Carey Jones on behalf of the South
Headingley Community Association and herself gives the cases against the NGT
trolleybus scheme.<span> </span>Sue Buckle of the
SHCA also supports this case.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;">In the late
morning session of Day 59 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 8th
Oct 2014, Dawn Carey Jones on behalf of the South Headingley Community
Association and herself completes their cases against the NGT trolleybus
scheme. Sue Buckle of the SHCA also supports this case.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;">In the
afternoon session of Day 59 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday
8th Oct 2014, Mr Walton for the Applicant NGT and the Inspector cross examine
Dawn Carey Jones and Sue Buckle on their cases for themselves and the South
Headingley Community Association against the trolleybus scheme.</span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 58: 07.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt 1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-58-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-oct-2014-only-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-58-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-oct-2014-only-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;">On Day 58<span> </span>of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry,
Tuesday 7th Oct 2014<span> </span>there was only one
short session since the programmed witness Ms Katie Lightbody had been taken
ill last night.<span> </span>There was discussion
around the programming schedule.<span> </span>The
Enquiry resumes tomorrow, Wednesday 8th October at 9.30 am.</span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 57: 06.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt 1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-57a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-6-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-57a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-6-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;">In the early afternoon
session of Day 57 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Monday 6th October
2014, Mr Ian Barraclough, on behalf of the residents and management of
Headingley Castle, gives their cases against the NGT proposals.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-57b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-6-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-57b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-6-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;">In the late
afternoon session of Day 57 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Monday 6th
October 2014 Mr Ian Barraclough, on behalf of the residents and management of
Headingley Castle, continues to give their cases against the NGT proposals, and
is examined by Mr Walton for the Applicant and the Inspector.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 56: 03.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt 1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-56-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-only-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-56-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-only-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the only session of Day
56 of the Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry, Friday 3rd October 2014 cases of objection
to NGT are given by Mr Mike Holmes Practice Manager Highfield Surgery in Holt
Park, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk400218679">Matthew Hill </a>local resident and finally
Catherine Shuttleworth, Governor of Richmond House School.<span> </span>There is some examination by Mr Cameron and
the Inspector.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 55: 02.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt 1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-55a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-55a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session
of Day 55 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday October 2014, Mr
Jeff Fawcett gives the case on behalf of Adel and Wharfedale Labour Part.<span> </span>This if followed by cases from Mr John
Crawley on questions around Burton Crescent and Janet Matthews a qualified
accountant on the public expenditure involved. There is some examination by Mr
Walton for the Applicant NGT and by the Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
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<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-55b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-55b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session
of Day 55 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday October 2014,
Lorraine Nelis, tenant of the fields on Headingley Hill and Mr Ian Simpson both
give their cases for objection to the NGT scheme and there is some examination
from counsel for the Applicant and the Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
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<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-55c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-55c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon
session of Day 55 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday October
2014, cases for objection are given by Mr Alan Haigh, and by Mr George Geapin
who concentrates on electric installation issues of the trolleybus system.</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-55d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-55d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon
session of Day 55 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 3rd October
2014, Mr George Geapin is examined by the Inspector.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 54: 01.10.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt 1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-54a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-1-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-54a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-1-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session
of Day 54 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 1st October 2014 Neil
Cameron QC on behalf of the Applicant NGT continues to cross examine Emeritus
Professor of Transport Planning Studies Peter Bonsall on his evidence against
the trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-54b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-1-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-54b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-1-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session
of Day 54 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 1st October 2014
Neil Cameron QC on behalf of the Applicant NGT concludes his cross examination
of Emeritus Professor of Transport Planning Studies Peter Bonsall on his
evidence against the trolleybus scheme.<span>
</span>This is then followed by the Inspector who asks a number of questions of
his own.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-54c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-1-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-54c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-1-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon
session of Day 54 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 1st October
Chris Longley of the Federation of Small Businesses presents his evidence and
there is some cross examination from the Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-54d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-1-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-54d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-1-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon
session of Day 54 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 1st October
cases are given against the NGT scheme by Mr Graham Lauder and Mrs Susan
Sleeman, both long term residents of Leeds 6.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #333333;"></span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 53: 30.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt 1pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-53a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-53a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session
of Day 53 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 30th September 2014,
Mr Doug Kemp presents evidence on behalf of the North West Leeds Transport
Forum, West Park Residents and himself against the NGT proposals. There is some
examination by Neil Cameron QC on behalf of the Applicant and then by the
Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-53b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-53b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session
of Day 53 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 30th September 2014,
Emeritus Professor of Transport Planning Studies Peter Bonsall goes through his
evidence in chief against the NGT scheme, drawing attention to many flaws in
the planning.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-53c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-53c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon
session of Day 53 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 30th
September 2014, Emeritus Professor of Transport Planning Studies Peter Bonsall
is cross examined on his evidence by Neil Cameron QC on behalf of the Applicant
NGT.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-53d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-53d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon
session of Day 53 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 30th
September 2014 Neil Cameron QC on behalf of the Applicant NGT continues to
cross examine Emeritus Professor of Transport Planning Studies Peter Bonsall on
his evidence against the trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 52: 26.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-52a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-26-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-52a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-26-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 52 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Friday 26th September 2014, Neil Cameron QC
continues his cross examination of Mr David Alexander, Regional Managing
Director for First Bus on behalf of the Applicant for the TWO, NGT.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-52b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-26-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-52b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-26-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 52 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Friday 26th September 2014, Neil Cameron QC
concludes his cross examination of Mr David Alexander, Regional Managing
Director for First Bus on behalf of the Applicant for the TWO, NGT.<span> </span>The Inspector then has some questions of his
own.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-52c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-26-sept-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-52c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-26-sept-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of Day 52 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Friday 26th September 2014, Gregory Jones QC re-examines Mr
David Alexander, Regional Managing Director for First Bus.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 51: 25.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-51a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-25-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-51a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-25-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 51 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 25 September 2014, Mr David Alexander,
Regional Managing Director for First Bus is taken through his evidence in chief
by Gregory Jones QC.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-51b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-25-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-51b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-25-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 51 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 25 September 2014, Gregory Jones QC
continues to take Mr David Alexander, Regional Managing Director for First Bus
through his evidence in chief.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-51c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-25-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-51c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-25-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 51 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 25 September 2014, Gregory Jones QC
concludes taking Mr David Alexander, Regional Managing Director for First Bus
through his evidence in chief and then Neil Cameron QC begins his cross
examination on behalf of the Applicant for the TWO, NGT.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-51d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-25-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-51d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-25-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 51 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 25 September 2014, Neil Cameron QC
continues his cross examination of Mr David Alexander, Regional Managing
Director for First Bus on behalf of the Applicant for the TWO, NGT.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 50: 24.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-50a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-50a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 50 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 24 September 2014, Louise Howard Long and
Chris Sheard for the Meanwood Valley Partnership present their cases of
objection to the NGT scheme and there is some examination by Neil Cameron QC
and the Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-50b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-50b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 50 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 24 September 2014, Mr Stephen Hammond and
then Mr Stuart Archbold, private objectors, give their cases of objection to
the NGT scheme and there is some examination by Neil Cameron QC and the
Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-50c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-50c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 50 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 24 September 2014, Mr Malcolm Bell and
then Mr Martin Fitzsimons give their cases of objection to the NGT scheme and
there is some examination by Neil Cameron QC and the Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-50d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-50d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 50 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 24 September 2014 Claire Randall first
represents the cases for four others and then delivers her own case and is
questioned on some points by the Inspector.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 49: 23.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-49a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-49a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 49 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, 23rd Sept 2014, Deborah Fahey of the Whitfields
Against The Trolleybus group gives her evidence against the NGT scheme and is
examined by Mr Walton for the Applicant and the Inspector, Mr Martin Whitehead.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-49b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-49b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 49 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, 23rd Sept 2014, Professor Christopher Todd gives his
statement of case in objection to the proposed NGT scheme and is examined by Mr
Walton for the Applicant and then by the Inspector Mr Martin Whitehead.<span> </span>Ms Elizabeth Reather for Leeds Cycle Action
begins but is deferred to after the lunch break for circulation of documents.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-49c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-49c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 49 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, 23rd Sept 2014, Ms Elizabeth Reather, on behalf of
Leeds Cycle Action, gives their case for objection to the NGT scheme and is
then examined by Neil Cameron QC and the Inspector, Mr Martin Whitehead.
Following this Mrs Christine Perry gives evidence on behalf of Mrs Betty
Claughton, a resident of West Park who would stand to lose part of her front
garden to the road widening proposed by the scheme.<span> </span>Questions follow from Mr Walton and the Inspector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-49d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-49d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 49 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, 23rd Sept 2014, evidence is given by Mr Doug Kemp on
behalf of Mrs Bell, a resident of West Park whose property would be affected by
the required works for the scheme, Ms Emma Stewart who amongst other concerns
addresses disable access issues and Mr Ken Torode, a local resident who
addresses discrimination against elderly passengers’ access to the scheme.<span> </span>There is some cross examination by counsel
for the Applicant.</span></span></div>
</div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 48: 12.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-48a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-12-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-48a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-12-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 48 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Friday 12 September 2014, Mr Richard Caten is cross
examined by Mr Bill McKinnon for Friends of Woodhouse Moor and then by Mrs Sue
Sleeman on behalf of Ms Dawn Carey Jones for South Headingley Community
Association who was unable to attend in person.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-48b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-12-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-48b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-12-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 48 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Friday 12 September 2014, the Inspector Mr Martin Whitehead
has some questions for Mr Caten on land acquisition for the proposed NGT
trolleybus scheme.<span> </span>Mr Walton for NGT
had no questions for re-examination.<span>
</span>After this, Mrs Riddell gives the first evidence for an Objector against
the NGT scheme on behalf of residents at Weetwood Court in West Park, followed
by her husband Mr Riddell on the more technical aspects of the impacts and then
is cross examined by Mr Walton.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Enquiry now breaks for a week and resumes on Tuesday 23rd Sept 2014
at 10am.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 47: 11.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-47a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-11-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-47a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-11-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 47 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Thursday 11 September 2014 Mr Bill McKinnon for Friends of
Woodhouse Moor resumes his cross examination of Mr Kevin Leather of Mott
MacDonald on the NGT Environmental Statement and is followed by Ms Dawn Carey
Jones for the South Headingley Community Association.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-47b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-11-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-47b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-11-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 47 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Thursday 11 September 2014 Ms Dawn Carey Jones for the
South Headingley Community Association concludes her cross examination<span> </span>Mr Kevin Leather of Mott MacDonald on the
NGT Environmental Statement and is followed by Mr Chris Foren for the A660
Joint Council and then the Inspector, Mr Martin Whitehead before the lunch
break is taken.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-47c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-11-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-47c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-11-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 47 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, Thursday 11 September 2014 Mr Walton for the Applicant carries out his
re-examination of Mr Kevin Leather of Mott MacDonald on his Environmental
Statement.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-47d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-11-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-47d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-11-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 47 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Thursday 11 September 2014 Mr Richard Caten of Ardent is
examined on his evidence about Land Management by Mr Walton for the Applicant
NGT, followed by Mrs Helen Pickering for the Drummonds and Churchwoods
Residents’ Association and then by Mr David Graham for First West
Yorkshire.<span> </span>There is a short discussion
about programming matters over the examination of Document B-13.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 46: 10.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-46a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-46a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 46 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Wed 10th September 2014 Mr Kevin Leather presents his
evidence in chief on the NGT Environmental Statement, is taken through this by
Mr Walton for the Applicant and then Gregory Jones QC for First West Yorkshire
cross examines him on his evidence.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-46b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-46b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 46 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, Wed 10th September 2014 Gregory Jones QC for First West </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yorkshire continues to cross examine Mr Kevin Leather on the
NGT Environmental Statement.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-46c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-46c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 46 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Wed 10th September 2014 Gregory Jones QC for First West
Yorkshire completes his cross examine of Mr Kevin Leather of Mott MacDonald on
the NGT Environmental Statement.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-46d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-46d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 46 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Wed 10th September 2014 first Mr Stuart Natkus for Morley
House Trust and then Mr Bill McKinnon for Friends of Woodhouse Moor cross
examine Mr Kevin Leather of Mott MacDonald on the NGT Environmental Statement.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 45: 09.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-45a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-45a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 45 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Tues 9th Sept 2014 Mr Max Forni Principal Acoustic Engineer,
Mott Macdonald, is cross examined firstly by Mr Walton for the Applicant, NGT
and then by Gregory Jones QC for First West Yorkshire on the noise impacts of
the development or running of the proposed NGT trolleybus system. #trolleybus
#lovinleeds</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-45b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-45b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 45 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tues 9th Sept 2014 Gregory Jones QC for First West
Yorkshire completes his cross examination of Mr Max Forni Principal Acoustic
Engineer, Mott Macdonald, on the noise impacts of the development and running
of the proposed NGT trolleybus system.<span>
</span>He is followed by Mr Barraclough on behalf of Headingley Castle and its
residents, then Mr Bill McKinnon for Friends of Woodhouse Moor, and finally Mr
Walton who re-examines Mr Forni on behalf of NGT.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 44: 05.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-44a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-5-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-44a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-5-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 44 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Fri 5th Sept Cameron QC commences his cross
examination of Paul Turner, Commercial Director of First West Yorkshire</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-44b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-5-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-44b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-5-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 44 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Fri 5th Sept Neil Cameron QC continues his cross
examination of Paul Turner, Commercial Director of First West Yorkshire, on
matters around First's response to the NGT proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Afternoon Session</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-44c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-5-sept-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-44c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-5-sept-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of Day 44 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Fri 5th Sept Neil Cameron QC concludes his cross examination of
Paul Turner, Commercial Director of First West Yorkshire and is followed by
Gregory Jones QC who makes a short re-examination of Mr Turner.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 43: 04.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-43a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-4-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-43a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-4-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>In the first morning
session of Day 43 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thurs 4th Sept 2014
Neil Cameron QC, counsel for the Applicant NGT cross examines Mr Chris Cheek,
expert witness for First West Yorkshire on his evidence, dealing with matters
around the viability of the proposed NGT trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-43b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-4-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-43b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-4-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>In the late morning
session of Day 43 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thurs 4th Sept 2014
Neil Cameron QC for NGT concludes his examination of Mr Chris Cheek, expert
witness for First West Yorkshire, focussing in this section largely on
operation matters comparing buses with the proposed NGT trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-43c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-4-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-43c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-4-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 43 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 4th September 2014, Gregory Jones QC
re-examines Mr Chris Cheek, expert witness for First West Yorkshire on his
overview of the NGT trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-43d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-4-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-43d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-4-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 43 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 4th September 2014, Gregory Jones QC
examines Mr Paul Turner, First's regional head of commercial on operational
matters comparing NGT trolleybus to the existing bus services, some of which
have run continuously since the 1950s</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 42: 03.09.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-42a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-3-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-42a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-3-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 42 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Wednesday 3rd September 2014 Gregory Jones continues
to examine Mr Chris Cheek, expert witness for First West Yorkshire on the
viability of the NGT trolleybus proposals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-42b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-3-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-42b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-3-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 42 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Wednesday 3rd September 2014 Gregory Jones continues
to examine Mr Chris Cheek, expert witness for First West Yorkshire on the
viability of the NGT trolleybus proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-42c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-3-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-42c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-3-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 42 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Wednesday 3rd September 2014 Neil Cameron QC
commences his examination of Mr Chris Cheek, expert witness for First West
Yorkshire on the viability of the NGT trolleybus proposals.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-42d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-3-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-42d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-3-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 42 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Wednesday 3rd September 2014 Neil Cameron QC
continues to examine Mr Chris Cheek, expert witness for First West Yorkshire on
the viability of the NGT trolleybus proposals.</span></span></div>
</div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 41: 02.09.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of the Day 41 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 2nd September 2014, the Enquiry resumes
after the summer break with Gregory Jones QC, for First (Bus) West Yorkshire
cross examining Mr Steve Speak who is representing Leeds City Council on
Planning matters concerning the NGT trolleybus proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 41 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 2nd September 2014 Gregory Jones QC
continues to cross examine Mr Steve Speak on Planning considerations regarding
the NGT scheme, in this session concentrating on planning guidelines around
heritage assets and damage to them.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 41 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 2nd September 2014 Gregory Jones QC
concludes his cross examination of Mr Steve Speak on Planning considerations
regarding the NGT scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mid Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-mid-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-mid-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the brief mid afternoon session of Day 41 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Mr Steve Speak concludes his session as witness when
he is re-examined by Neil Cameron QC for the Applicant NGT.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41e-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-41e-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-2-sept-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 41 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Public Transport expert Mr Cheek gives his evidence
in chief for First West Yorkshire and is then cross examined by Gregory Jones
QC.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>The inquiry
adjourned on 24-07-2014 (Day 40). It resumed again on 02-09-2014.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 40: 24.07.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-40a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-july-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-40a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-july-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>In
the first morning session of Day 40 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry,
after admin and timetable matters have been dealt with, Mr Stuart Natkus,
acting for his clients, Statutory Objectors, examines Professor Jeremy
Purseglove on ecological issues around Headingley Hill.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Late
Morning</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-40b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-july-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-40b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-24-july-2014-late-morning-session/</a>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>In
the late morning session of Day 40 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry
Gregory Jones QC completes his cross examination of Mr Neil Chadwick on the
business case for NGT and is followed by Neil Cameron QC who carries out the
re-examination of the witness. The Inspector then gives his decision on the
matter of whether he will accept the Heritage technical appendix and this is
followed by some brief discussion of the coming timetable. The Enquiry is now
adjourned for the summer break and will resume on 10am Tuesday 2nd September
2014.</span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 39: 23.07.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-39a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-july-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-39a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-july-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 39 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Mr Cameron gives his verbal response to the letters
that have been generated in reply to the submission of the additional 370 page
Heritage document some weeks ago. This is followed by the Inspector’s
deliberations and Mr Jones for First.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-39b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-july-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-39b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-july-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 39 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry 23 July 2014 Mr Stuart Natkus cross examines Mr Speak
on Planning issues for his clients who are statutory objectors and is followed
by Mr Chris Foren for the A660 Joint Council.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-39c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-july-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-39c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-july-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 39 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry 23 July 2014 Mr Chris Foren for the A660 Joint
Council completes his examination of Mr Speak on Planning issues and is
followed by Ms Dawn Carey Jones for the South Headingley Community Association.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-39d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-july-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-39d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-23-july-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 39 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry 23 July 2014 Neil Cameron QC re-examines Mr Speak and
is then followed by Gregory Jones QC who picks up his cross examination of Mr
Neil Chadwick on the business case for the proposed NGT system.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 38: 22.07.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-38a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-july-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-38a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-july-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 38 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Emeritus Professor Peter Bonsall cross examines the
recalled Mr Neil Chadwick on the business case focussing on the arguments
around passenger preferences.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-38b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-july-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-38b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-july-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 38 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, 22 July 2014, Professor Bonsall concludes his
re-examination of Mr Neil Chadwick on the business case and justification for
the NGT proposals, and is then followed by Gregory Jones QC who commences his
own cross examination.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-38c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-july-2014-early-afternoonsession/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-38c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-july-2014-early-afternoonsession/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 38 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, 22 July 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues his cross
examination of Mr Neil Chadwick on the business case for the NGT trolleybus
focussing on the methodology and research which is claimed to support the
choice of pursuing this scheme. </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-38d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-july-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-38d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-22-july-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon of Day 38 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, 22 July 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues to cross examine Mr Neil
Chadwick on the business case underlying the NGT trolleybus scheme proposals.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 37: 21.07.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-37-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-july-2014-only-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-37-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-21-july-2014-only-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the only session of Day 37 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public
Enquiry, 21 July 2014, Mr Bill McKinnon for Friends of Woodhouse Moor cross
examines Mr Speak of Planning for Leeds City Council on planning issues around
the trolleybus and green space provision which would be affected on Woodhouse
Moor. </span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 36: 18.07.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-36a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-18-july-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-36a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-18-july-2014-first-morning-session/<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 36 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Planning Enquiry 18 July 2014 the day begins with more discussion on
the ongoing situation with letters being exchanged with respect to the
submission of the 370 page Heritage technical document. Following this Neil
Cameron QC takes Mr Speak of Planning through his evidence in Chief.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-36b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-18-july-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-36b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-18-july-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the late morning session of Day 36 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry 18 July 2014 Neil Cameron QC completes his
examination on Mr Speak's evidence in chief for Planning and then is followed
by Mr Tony Ray a retired Town Planner who cross examines Mr Speak for the North
West Leeds Transport Forum.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-36c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-18-july-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-36c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-18-july-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of Day 36 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, 18 July 2014, the cross examination of Mr Speak for the Planning
Policy on which the Trolleybus scheme rests is cross examined by Dr John
Dickinson for Weetwood Resident's Association.</span></span></div>
</div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span></span>Day 35: 17.07.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-35-july-17-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-35-july-17-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 35 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, July 17 2014 begins with about an hour of discussion around the
letters between First West Yorkshire and the Applicant NGT over the submission
of late Heritage technical evidence. This is then followed by Mrs Helen
Pickering for the Drummonds and Churchwoods Residents Association who cross
examines Mr Thomas Walker on the visual and landscape impacts on Far Headingley
if the NGT scheme were to go ahead.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-35-july-17-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-35-july-17-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 35 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 17 2014, Mr Stuart Natkus for Morley House
Trust and others cross examines Mr Thomas Walker on the landscape and visual
impacts on Headingley Lane which would be created by the NGT trolleybus scheme
should it be approved and implemented.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-35-july-17-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-35-july-17-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 35 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 17 2014, Ms Claire Randall cross examines Mr
Thomas Walker on some aspects of trees relevant to the Enquiry and then
concludes her examination by analysing the unnecessary and prejudicial changes
which were made to the photomontages of key locations as they are expected to
look should the NGT proposals be implemented.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-35-july-17-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-35-july-17-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 35 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 17 2014, Mrs Sue Sleeman delivers questions to
Mr Thomas Walker on behalf of Ms Claire Randall on the visual and landscape
impact of the proposed NGT scheme on Headingley Lane should it be accepted and
be implemented. She is then followed by the Inspector Mr Martin Whitehead who
asks a short series of killer questions of Mr Walker before Neil Cameron QC who
completes the re-examination of Mr Walker who has now completed his evidence as
a witness at the Public Enquiry.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 34: 16.07.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-34-july-16-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-34-july-16-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 34 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 16 2014, the cross examination of Mr Thomas
Walker on the landscape impact that the NGT route would have begins with Mr
Chris Foren for the A660 Joint Council and is continued by Mr Bill McKinnon for
Friends of Woodhouse Moor.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-34-july-16-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-34-july-16-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 34 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 16 2014, Mr Bill McKinnon, for Friends of
Woodhouse Moor, continues and completes his cross examination of Mr Thomas
Walker on the visual and landscape impacts of the proposed trolleybus system on
Woodhouse Moor if it went ahead.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-34-july-16-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-34-july-16-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 34 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 16 2014, Dawn Carey Jones for the South
Headingley Community Association cross examines Mr Thomas Walker concerning the
impacts the NGT scheme would have on the area around Hyde Park Corner.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-34-july-16-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-34-july-16-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 34 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 16 2014, Mrs Helen Pickering of the Drummonds
and Churchwoods Residents’ Association cross examines Mr Thomas Walker on the
landscape and visual impacts which would occur should the NGT Trolleybus scheme
be implemented. </span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 33: 15.07.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-33-july-15-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-33-july-15-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 33 of the Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, July 15 2014, the matter of the Applicant's submission of a
huge 370 page resubmission of their Heritage case is looked over by the
Inspector and several objectors. Gregory Jones QC for First West Yorkshire
raises the question of whether costs might be incurred due to the immense
amount of work which would be required to review this document. Also whether
private objectors would be in a position to claim costs, and not least whether
the document should even be accepted by the Inspector and the implications for
the entire Enquiry procedure should it be.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-33-july-15-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-33-july-15-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 33 at the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 15 2014, Gregory Jones QC cross examines Mr
Thomas Walker on the subject of the impact on visual amenity of the scheme
should it go ahead, the photomontages which have been made to illustrate this
impact in some places and the replacement of trees which NGT wishes to fell.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-33-july-15-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-33-july-15-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 33 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, July 15 2014, Gregory Jones QC cross examines Mr
Thomas Walker on the landscape impacts of tree loss and the categorisation of
tree quality on critical sites.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-33-july-15-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-33-july-15-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the final session of Day 33 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry Gregory Jones QC cross examined Mr Thomas Walker on landscape
impacts of the proposed NGT trolleybus on the Leeds College of Art, for whom he
was acting this afternoon.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 32: 27.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-inquiry-Day-32-june-27-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-inquiry-Day-32-june-27-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 32 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 27 2014, Mr Thomas Walker responsible for the
landscape plans for the NGT route sets out the evidence in chief with Mr Walton
taking him through his statement and summary.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-32-june-27-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-32-june-27-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 32 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, June 25 2014 Mr John Reid cross examines Mr Thomas
Walker on the landscape design case for the applicants, NGT</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-32-june-27-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-32-june-27-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of day 32 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, firstly Mr Tony Ray, retired Town Planner, for the North West
Leeds Transport Forum, and finally Mr Doug Kemp of West Park Resident's
Association, cross examine Mr Thomas Walker on the landscape proposals for the
NGT route should it be implemented. </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Enquiry now breaks for two weeks and the next session
will be on Tuesday 15 July 2014.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 31: 26.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-31-june-26-2014-only-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-31-june-26-2014-only-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the short session held on the morning of day 31 of the
Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry, June 26 2014, Mr Bill McKinnon for Friends of
Woodhouse Moor carries out his cross examination of Professor Jeremy Purseglove
on the ecological impact of the proposed NGT trolleybus route.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 30: 25.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-30-june-25-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-30-june-25-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Bill McKinnon cross examines Mr Neil Chadwick on his
business case model for the NGT trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-30-june-25-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-30-june-25-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Neil Cameron QC<span>
</span>re-examines Mr Neil Chadwick on his business case model for the NGT
trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-30-june-25-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-30-june-25-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr David Graham for First West Yorkshire cross examines
Professor Jeremy Purseglove on the potential impact of the NGT trolleybus
scheme on the local ecology along the proposed route.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Later afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-30-june-25-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-30-june-25-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Chris Foren for the A660 Joint Council cross examines Professor
Jeremy Purseglove on the potential impact of the NGT trolleybus scheme on the
local ecology along the proposed route and is followed by Ms Claire Randall, an
independent private objector on the subject of mature and old trees.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 29: 24.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-29-june-24-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-29-june-24-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 29 of the Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, June 24 2014, Professor Peter Bonsall continues with his cross
examination of Mr Neil Chadwick on the business case for NGT. </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-29-june-24-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-29-june-24-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 29 of the Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, June 24 2014, Professor Peter Bonsall concludes his cross
examination of Mr Neil Chadwick on the business case for NGT.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-29-june-24-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-29-june-24-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 29 of the Trolleybus
Public Enquiry June 24 2014, Chris Longley of the Federation of Small
Businesses cross examines Mr Neil Chadwick on the impact of the implementation
of the NGT scheme on small businesses along the route.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Later afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-29-june-24-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-29-june-24-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 29 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, June 24, 2014, several objectors cross examine Mr
Neil Chadwick on the business case for the NGT trolleybus.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 28: 20.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-28-june-20-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-28-june-20-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 28 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Professor Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr
Neil Chadwick who is responsible for the business case which underlies the NGT
proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-28-june-20-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-28-june-20-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 28 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Professor Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr
Neil Chadwick who is responsible for the business case which underlies the NGT
proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-28-june-20-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-28-june-20-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of day 28 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, firstly a private objector Mr Haig puts questions to Mr
Chadwick, and then Professor Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr Neil
Chadwick who is responsible for the business case which underlies the NGT
proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 27: 19.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 27 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Professor Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr
Neil Chadwick who is responsible for the business case which underlies the NGT
proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mid morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-mid-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-mid-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the mid morning session of day 27 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry Professor Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr Neil
Chadwick who is responsible for the business case which underlies the NGT
proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 27 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Professor Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr
Neil Chadwick who is responsible for the business case which underlies the NGT
proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 27 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry Professor Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr Neil
Chadwick who is responsible for the business case which underlies the NGT
proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-27-june-19-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 27 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Professor Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr
Neil Chadwick who is responsible for the business case which underlies the NGT
proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 26: 18.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-26-june-18-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-26-june-18-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 26 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 18 2014, there is some business at first relating to a
large box of documents which were submitted by Professor Christopher Todd but
which appear to have been mislaid, and then when that has been dealt with, Neil
Cameron QC continues to take Mr Neil Chadwick through his evidence and
concludes at the end of this session.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-26-june-18-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-26-june-18-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 26 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, June 18 2014, Professor Peter Bonsall commences his
cross examination of Mr Neil Chadwick who is responsible for the business case
on which the NGT proposals rely.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-26-june-18-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-26-june-18-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 26 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, June 18 2014, Emeritus Professor of Transport
Studies Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr Neil Chadwick who is
responsible for the business case on which the NGT scheme rests.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-26-june-18-2014-late-afternoon-session">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-26-june-18-2014-late-afternoon-session</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 26 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, June 18 2014, Emeritus Professor of Transport
Studies Peter Bonsall continues to cross examine Mr Neil Chadwick who is
responsible for the business case on which the NGT scheme rests.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 25: 17.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-25-june-17-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-25-june-17-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 25 of the Public Enquiry
the examination of Mr Paul Hanson with regards to his modelling of traffic and
demand for the NGT trolleybus scheme is continued by Dr John Dickinson of the
Weetwood Residents' Association and completed by Mr Nigel Sleeman, a private
objector.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-25-june-17-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-25-june-17-2014-late-morning-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 25 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 17 2014, Neil Cameron QC re-examines Mr Paul Hanson on
the subject of traffic and demand modelling which he carried out for the
applicant, NGT/ Metro.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-25-june-17-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-25-june-17-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 25 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 17 2014, Neil Cameron QC takes Mr Neil Chadwick,
responsible for the business case of the NGT trolleybus scheme, through his statement
of case and proofs of evidence.<span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-25-june-17-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-25-june-17-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 25 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 17 2014, Neil Cameron continues to take Mr Neil
Chadwick through his Statement of Case concerning the business case for the NGT
trolleybus.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 24: 13.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-24-june-13-2014-early-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-24-june-13-2014-early-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 24 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, June 13 2014, Gregory Jones QC commences his cross
examination of Mr Paul Hanson who is responsible for the traffic modelling used
by NGT in their business case and application for a Transport and Works Act
Order.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-24-june-13-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-24-june-13-2014-late-morning-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 24 of the Enquiry, June
13 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues the cross examination of Mr Paul Hanson who
is responsible for the traffic and passenger demand modelling of the NGT
trolleybus proposals.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-24-june-13-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-24-june-13-2014-afternoon-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the final session of day 24 of the Enquiry, June 13 2014,
Gregory Jones continues to examine Mr Paul Hanson with regard to his modelling
of the traffic and demand for the NGT scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 23: 12.06.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-23-june-12-2014-early-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-23-june-12-2014-early-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 23 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 12 2014, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies Peter
Bonsall resumes his cross examination of Mr Paul Hanson on the modelling of
projected demand for the proposed trolleybus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-23-june-12-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-23-june-12-2014-late-morning-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 23 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 12 2014, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies Peter
Bonsall continues his cross examination of Mr Paul Hanson on the modelling of
traffic and projected demand for the proposed trolleybus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-23-june-12-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-23-june-12-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 23 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 12 2014, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies Peter
Bonsall continues his cross examination of Mr Paul Hanson on the modelling of
traffic and projected demand for the proposed trolleybus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-23-june-12-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-23-june-12-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 23 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 12 2014, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies Peter
Bonsall concludes his cross examination of Mr Paul Hanson on the modelling of
traffic and projected demand for the proposed trolleybus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 22: 11.06.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-22-june-11-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-22-june-11-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 22 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 11 2014, after a long preamble about late submission
of documents, Mr Paul Hanson, expert in traffic modelling continues with his
summary Proofs of Evidence under the guidance of Mr Neil Cameron QC</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-22-june-11-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-22-june-11-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 22 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 11, Neil Cameron QC continues to take Mr Paul Hanson
through the immensely complicated modelling process for traffic, buses, cars
and people as it relates to the proposed NGT trolleybus system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-22-june-11-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-22-june-11-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 22 at the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 11 2014, Neil Cameron QC concludes his introduction of
Mr Paul Hanson and his evidence regarding traffic modelling and is followed by
Peter Bonsall, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies, who begins to examine
the entire modelling structure upon which so much of the Applicant's test
depends.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-22-june-11-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-22-june-11-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the final session of day 22 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, June 11 2014, Professor Peter Bonsall continues to examine the
traffic modelling of the NGT system as it is presented and proposed by Mr Paul
Hanson.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 21: 10.06.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 21 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry saw the
completion of the cross examination of Mr Sean Flesher, Head of Parks and
Countryside.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-21-june-10-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-21-june-10-2014-first-morning-session/</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>In the first morning
session of day 21 of the Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry, June 21 2014,<span> </span>the Inspector Mr Whitehead asks a series of
questions of Mr Sean Flesher, Head of Parks and Countryside, on impacts on
green space, and is then followed by Mr Bill McKinnon, for Friends of Woodhouse
Moor on how NGT would impact there. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-21-june-10-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-21-june-10-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 21 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry June 10 2014 Mr Bill McKinnon of the Friends of Woodhouse
Moor completes his cross examines Mr Sean Flesher on the impact of the proposed
trolleybus route on the most used park in Leeds.<span> </span>He is then followed by Mrs Eileen Pattison speaking for Middleton
Park Labour Party about the impact of NGT on Belle Isle Circus.<span> </span>Lastly Mr Stuart Natkus representing
Headingley Land Developments on the proposed public parks for Headingley Hill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-21-june-10-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-21-june-10-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 21 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 10 2014, Ms Dawn Carey Jones cross examines Mr Sean
Flesher, Head of Parks and Countryside on green space issues of the impact of
the trolleybus route.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-21-june-10-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-21-june-10-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the final session of day 21 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, June 10 2014, Neil Cameron QC for the Applicant introduces Mr Paul
Hanson who is responsible for traffic modelling for the NGT scheme and takes
him through his summary proof of evidence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 20: 06.06.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-20-june-06-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-20-june-06-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On day 20 of the Leeds trolleybus enquiry, June 06 2014, Mr
Philip Ward, head of conservation at Leeds City Council is cross examined by
Stuart Natkus for Morley House Trust (Leeds Girls High School) on heritage
issues around the moving of the long wall on Headingley Lane and related
assessment issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-20-june-06-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-20-june-06-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On day 20 of the Leeds trolleybus enquiry, June 06 2014, Mr
Bill McKinnon picks up the cross examination of Mr Philip Ward on Heritage
matters around Woodhouse Moor and is followed by Ms Dawn Carey Jones on Hyde
Park corner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-20-june-06-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-20-june-06-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the final session of day 20 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, June 06 2014, Ms Dawn Carey Jones completes her examination of Mr
Philip Ward on Heritage matters around Hyde Park Corner, and is followed by Mr
Walton for the Applicant who re-examines on some points he picks up from the
week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 19: 05.06.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-19-june-05-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-19-june-05-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 19 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 05 2014, Mrs Helen Pickering continues with her cross
examination of Mr Philip Ward, focussing on the assessment of cumulative impacts
along the several conservation areas which would be affected by NGT and
following this with questions about the archaeological surveys which have been
limited to desk based assessment and have not involved any actual examinations
on the ground.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-19-june-05-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-19-june-05-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 19 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 05 2014 the cross examination of Mr Philip Ward, head
of the Conservation department at Leeds City Council is continued, first by
Doug Kemp for West Park Residents' Association on visual impacts in the West
Park Conservation Area, and then he is followed by Mr Ian Barraclough for the
residents of Headingley Castle on the impact that the trolleybus would have on
the its beautiful parkland setting of this Grade 2 listed building.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-19-june-05-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-19-june-05-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 19 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, June 05 2014, Claire Randall takes the seat to cross examine Mr
Philip Ward of LCC Conservation Dept on a number of aspects of the whole site
along the wall up Headingley Lane to Headingley Hill, follows this with
examination of whether he could support his statement of an aging tree stock
then asks to what degree the heritage should acknowledge the value to local
culture of such important former local residents as JRR Tolkien and extends
this into an examination of whether the Heritage methodology acknowledges the
concept of the spiritual value of nature and trees as understood in cultural
anthropology of many diverse sources from animistic pagan to mainstream
religions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-19-june-05-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-19-june-05-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 19 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 05 2014, Mr Sean Flesher, LCC Chief Parks and
Countryside Officer is introduced to the Enquiry and Mr Walton for the
Applicant takes him through his evidence and is then followed by Gregory Jones
QC who cross examines on the loss of playing fields and public amenity.<span> </span>The final portion of the session is
contributed by Chris Foren of the A660 Joint Council who begins his cross
examination by examining the loss of green space that would be incurred if a
trolleybus route were to go across Headingley Meadows and questions the
suggestion that a new 'pocket park' between trolleybus and main road would be
an improvement to public amenity and suggests that it is more bureaucratic
doublespeak which seeks to turn a detriment into a gain through sleight of
hand. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 18: 04.06.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-18-june-04-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-18-june-04-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the morning of day 18 of the Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry,
June 04 2014, Gregory Jones QC resumes his cross examination of Mr Philip Ward,
leader of the Conservation team at Leeds City Council on Heritage matters,
which is the subject of this week's Enquiry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-18-june-04-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-18-june-04-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 18 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Gregory Jones QC completes his cross examination of Mr
Philip Ward witness for Leeds City Council on Heritage matters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-18-june-04-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-18-june-04-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 18 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 04 2014, Helen Pickering, for the Drummonds' and
Churchwoods' Residents' Association cross examines Mr Philip Ward of Leeds City
Council Conservation team on Heritage matters which concern the communities
along the consecutive heritage areas that are strung along the A660 from the
University to the Outer Ring Road, also highlighting particular issues around
the area of St Chad's Church in Far Headingley.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-18-june-04-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-18-june-04-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 18 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 04 2014, Helen Pickering for the Drummonds' and
Churchwoods' Residents' Association continues to cross examine Mr Philip Ward
of LCC Conservation Department on Heritage matters and then hands over to Mr
Tony Ray, retired town planner while some documents are being prepared which
will be returned to tomorrow.</span></span></div>
</div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 17: 03.06.14</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">[<i>NB. These file names
show the incorrect Day Number</i>]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-june-03-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-june-03-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 17 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 03 2014, Mr Philip Ward, witness for Heritage matters
presents his evidence with the assistance of Mr Walton for the Applicant, and
is then cross examined by Gregory Jones QC for First West Yorkshire on the
methodology used in the assessment of the heritage assets which would be
affected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-june-03-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-june-03-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 17 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 03 2014, Mr Philip Ward continues to be cross examined
by Gregory Jones QC, covering details of what exactly the curtilage of Rose
Court mansion extends to and how the gate piers would be affected by being
moved up to five meters as is proposed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-june-03-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-june-03-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 17 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, June 03 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues to cross examine Mr Philip
Ward on details of the impact of the NGT trolleybuses and their cable fixings
on buildings in Millennium Square such as the Museum and others.</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-june-03-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-june-03-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 17 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, June 03 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues to press Mr Philip
Ward on heritage matters such as the effect of cumulative changes, the impact
of wires on visual appearance of listed buildings, whether recording is
sufficient mitigation to balance destruction and whether the building of a
replica of a listed structure can really be called 'relocation'.</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 16: 23.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-may-23-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-may-23-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 16 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, May 23 2014, the cross examination of Mr John Henkel, acting
Director of the WY Combined Authority for transport (formerly Metro) is
continued by Dr John Dickinson, of the North West Leeds Transport Forum, who
asks questions around the capitalisation costs and risks of NGT. He is followed
by Mr Chris Longley of the Federation of Small Businesses who subjects the
business case to some analysis, then by Mr Bill McKinnon for the A660 Joint
Council who looks at strategic issues and lastly Mr George Geapin, a private
objector.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-may-23-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-16-may-23-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 16 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, May 23 2014, Neil Cameron QC completes the examination of Mr
John Henkel of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority for transport (formerly
Metro). This session finished at about twenty minutes past midday and the
Enquiry was adjourned early since there is now to be a week's break for Bank
Holiday and half term and the Inspector felt that it would not be helpful for
the Enquiry to call the next witness for one session alone as their evidence is
on an entirely different subject.</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The day finished at lunchtime. The Public Enquiry resumes on
Tuesday June 3rd at 10 am.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 15: 22.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-15-may-22-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-15-may-22-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 15 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, May 15 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues to examine John
Henkel, acting Director of the West Yorkshire Combined Transport Authority
(formerly Metro) who is responsible for operational factors with respect to the
NGT system.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-15-may-22-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-15-may-22-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 15 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, May 22 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues to cross examine Mr
John Henkel of the West Yorks Combined Transport Authority about operational
matters which relate to both NGT and First Bus.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-15-may-22-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-15-may-22-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 15 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, May 22 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues to cross
examine Mr John Henkel, acting Director of the West Yorkshire Combined
Transport Authority on behalf of First West Yorkshire, his client, and suggests
that the Applicant had made serious allegations against his client which were
untrue (to use Mr Jones words).</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-15-may-22-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-15-may-22-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 15 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, May 22 2014, Gregory Jones QC continues to cross
examine Mr John Henkel, acting Director of the West Yorkshire Combined
Transport Authority on behalf of First West Yorkshire, his client, and
demonstrates that no meaningful engagement had been made by Metro towards First
West Yorkshire despite knowing about First's Objection and new transport
proposals, although suggestions had been made by the Applicant to the
contrary.<span> </span>Professor Peter Bonsall
follows working around transport as a system which needs to be viewed
holistically while NGT works against that.</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 14: 21.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-14-may-21-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-14-may-21-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of day 14 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, May 21 2014. Mr John Henkel, acting director general of Metro takes
the stand as a witness for NGT. Neil Cameron examines on behalf of the
Applicant NGT. </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-14-may-21-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-14-may-21-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The late morning session of day 14 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, May 21 2014. Mr John Henkel, acting director general of Metro
continues as a witness for NGT. Cllr Barry Anderson (C. Adel) cross examines.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-14-may-21-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-14-may-21-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 14 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, May 21, 2014, the cross examination of Mr John Henkel,
Acting Director of West Yorkshire Combined Transport Authority continues from
Mr Malcolm Bell, Mechanical Engineer.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-14-may-21-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-14-may-21-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the final afternoon session of day 14, May 21 2014,
Gregory Jones QC cross examines John Henkel, Acting Director of the new West
Yorkshire Combined Transport Authority on the legal advice that has been taken
by NGT and how this has affected their consultations, amongst other matters.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 13: 20.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-13-may-20-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-13-may-20-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 13 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, May 20 2014, Mr Bill McKinnon of Friends of Woodhouse Moor
and North Hyde Park Neighbourhood Association continues his cross examination
of Highways Engineer Mr Jason Smith on important details of the proposed NGT
route on issues of shared space and the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) Standard 2013
relevant to the proposed NGT trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-13-may-20-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-13-may-20-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 13 of the Leeds
trolleybus Public Enquiry, May 20 2014, Bill McKinnon of Friends of Woodhouse
Moor and North Hyde Park Neighbourhood Association cross examines Jason Smith,
Highways Engineer on shared space and future proofing of the proposed system.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-13-may-20-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-13-may-20-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of day 13 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, May 20 2014, Gregory Jones QC for the Leeds College of Art
continues his cross examination of Jason Smith, Highways Engineer with regard
to, among other concerns, factors of safety, capacity and flow speed which
would affect the College and the roads approaching it in the vicinity including
Woodhouse Lane and Blenheim Walk.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-13-may-20-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-13-may-20-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the final session of day 13 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, May 20 2014, Mr Jason Smith faces his last cross examination, this
time from Neil Cameron QC who returns to a number of points from the last few
days.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 12: 19.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-12-may-19-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-12-may-19-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first part of the extra afternoon sitting which took
place on day 12 of the Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry, May 19 2014, Bill McKinnon of
The Friends of Woodhouse Moor and North Hyde Park Neighbourhood Association
cross examines Jason Smith, Highways Engineer on many details of the Highways
work associate with the NGT trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-12-may-19-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-enquiry-day-12-may-19-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of day 12 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, Bill McKinnon, of The Friends of Woodhouse Moor and North
Hyde Park Neighbourhood Association continues his cross examination of Jason
Smith, Highways Engineer, concentrating on issues including the regulations
concerning trolleybuses and areas which may be 'pedestrian dominated' rather
than actually pedestrianised.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 11: 16.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-11-may-16-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-11-may-16-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of day 11 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Enquiry, May 16 2014, Mr Jason Smith, Highways Engineer is questioned by
Deborah Fahey from the Whitfield Avenue area of Hunslet, a pedestrian precinct
which NGT plan to penetrate with a trolleybus route section.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-11-may-16-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-11-may-16-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of day 11 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Enquiry, May 16 2014, Chris Foren, Chair of the A660 Joint Council,
cross examines highways engineer Jason Smith for NGT on detailed aspects of
road design, with especial emphasis on safety for bicycle users.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>Afternoon Session</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-11-may-16-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-11-may-16-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>In the final session
of day 11 of the Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry, May 16 2014, Gregory Jones QC
returns to cross examine Mr Jason Smith Highways Engineer Designer for NGT, the
Applicant for the Transport Works Order, covering much ground, and exploring
the limitations of the NGT system in comparison to conventional buses.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 10: 15.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-10-may-15-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-10-may-15-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cross examination of highways engineer Jason Smith is
continued by Chris Longley of the Federation of Small Businesses, who is
followed by Cllr Barry Anderson (C. Adel) and Helen Pickering of the Drummonds
and Churchwoods Residents Association.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-10-may-15-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-10-may-15-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cross examination of Jason Smith, highways engineer,
continues with Helen Pickering of the Drummonds and Churchwoods Residents
Association, who is followed by Michael Broadbent, formerly of the West
Yorkshire Police, with former responsibility for traffic management. The
questions include impacts on residents, local traffic flow and parking issues.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-10-may-15-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-10-may-15-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cross examination of Mr Jason Smith, Highways Engineer,
is continued by a number of objectors and groups: Ian Broadbent for Headingley
Castle Residents, Doug Kemp for NW Leeds Transport Forum, Martin Fitzsimons
from Belle Isle, Martyn Thomas for Weetwood Residents Assoc, Stuart Natkus
Chartered Town Planner for Barton Willmore representing Morley House Trust and
others.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span>Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-10-may-15-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-10-may-15-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cross examination of Mr Jason Smith, Highways Engineer,
is continued by Stuart Natkus for Morley House Trust on behalf of Leeds Girls
High School and other objectors, who is followed by Doug Kemp for the West Park
Residents' Association.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 9: 14.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Gordon Robertson, who is responsible for traffic
management in the NGT proposals, explains how this is expected to work. Traffic
Regulation Orders (TRO) are examined by Mr Walton for the Applicant.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">the cross examination of Mr Gordon Robertson, Signals
Engineer, continues with questions from Dr John Dickinson for Weetwood
Residents' Association, Cllr Barry Anderson (C., Adel) and Douglas Kemp, Chair
of West Park Residents' Association, focusing on effects on pedestrians,
emergency services and flows at new junctions among other technical road
issues.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon Part 1</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-early-afternoon-session-part-1/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-early-afternoon-session-part-1/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The final part of Mr Gordon Robertson's cross examination.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon Part 2</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-early-afternoon-session-part-2/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-early-afternoon-session-part-2/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Jason Smith begins his time as a witness by explaining
engineering requirements and is questioned by Mr Neil Cameron QC on these
matters.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-9-may-14-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Jason Smith continues to be questioned on engineering
requirements by Mr Neil Cameron QC on these matters. Following this, Chris
Longley of the Federation of Small Businesses and who has experience of the
Sheffield Supertram begins his cross examination with questions on serious
engineering detail.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 8: 13.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-8-may-13-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-8-may-13-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Gordon Robertson, who is responsible for traffic
management in the NGT proposals, explains how this is expected to work. Traffic
Regulation Orders (TRO) are examined by Mr Walton for the Applicant.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-8-may-13-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-8-may-13-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gregory Jones QC cross examines Gordon Robertson of NGT on
the traffic modelling for the trolleybus scheme.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-8-may-13-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-8-may-13-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gregory Jones QC cross examines Gordon Robertson of NGT on
the matter of traffic flows, and Chris Longley of the Federation of Small
Businesses follows with a short series of technical questions.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-8-may-13-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-8-may-13-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Emeritus Professor Peter Bonsall cross examines Mr Gordon
Robertson, Traffic Signals Engineer for Leeds City Council and subjects the
detail of the altered junctions and traffic modelling to detailed scrutiny.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 7: 09.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Links to audio from all today's sessions:</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-7-may-9-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-7-may-9-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Doug Kemp of West Park Residents' Association and Chris
Foren, Chair of the A660 Joint Council cross examine Dave Haskins, Project
Director for NGT. Subjects covered include consultation and cycling provision.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-7-may-9-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-7-may-9-2014-late-morning-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Malcolm Bell, qualified mechanical engineer, cross examines
Dave Haskins, covering a number of technical issues. After that Claire Randall
asks Dave Haskins questions on the subject of the clarity and fairness of the
visual graphic presentations given at public consultations. (Unfortunately a
power supply issue means the last few minutes of the session aren't recorded).</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-7-may-9-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-7-may-9-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Neil Cameron QC, for the Applicant, returns to examine Dave
Haskins at the end of his long stand as witness, and takes the opportunity to
pick up some rebuttals and loose ends left from the hostile examinations of the
many objectors who have cross examined him.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 6: 08.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Haig, retired chartered engineer, and Chris Longley of
the Federation of Small Businesses cross examine Dave Haskins, Project Director
for NGT. A number of technical issues are covered.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cllr Barry Anderson (Con. Adel) and Dr John Dickinson of the
North West Leeds Transport Forum cross examine Dave Haskins and cover a large
number of local and technical issues.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Professor Emeritus of Transport Studies Peter Bonsall begins
his questioning, focusing among other matters on issues such as the reduction
in Benefit to Cost Ratio (BCR) which has fallen since it was first assessed
some years ago, and the quality of the consultations which took place before
decisions were made to go ahead with a trolleybus system. </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon Session Part 1</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-late-afternoon-session-part-1/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-late-afternoon-session-part-1/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Peter Bonsall continues to cross examines Dave Haskins. A
main part of the questioning develops the major subject of the consultations,
or lack of them.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon Session Part 2</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-late-afternoon-session-part-2/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-6-may-8-2014-late-afternoon-session-part-2/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dawn Carey Jones, Secretary of the A660 Joint Council of
Community Associations from along the A660, cross examines Dave Haskins. Again
the matter of the consultations which took place in the planning stages comes
under close scrutiny.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 5: 07.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Links to audio from all today's sessions where Gregory Jones
QC continues to cross examine Dave Haskins, Project Director for NGT: </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-5-may-7-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-5-may-7-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gregory Jones QC resumes his questioning of Dave Haskins,
Project Director of NGT</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-5-may-7-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-5-may-7-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gregory Jones QC continues his cross examination of Dave
Haskins, focussing his examination particularly on comparisons with trolleybus
systems in Europe.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-5-may-7-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-5-may-7-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gregory Jones QC continues his cross examination of Dave
Haskins, beginning to analyse the public consultation process which NGT engaged
in.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-5-may-7-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-5-may-7-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gregory Jones QC continues to question Dave Haskins on the
consultations that were made by NGT in the lead up to the choice to go ahead
with a trolleybus system and discovers that no direct consultations were made
with First Bus concerning the route.</span></span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 4: 02.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-4-may-2-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-4-may-2-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dave Haskins, Project Director of NGT, gives his statement
and is then led through his evidence by Neil Cameron QC for the Applicant</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-4-may-2-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-4-may-2-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Neil Cameron QC continues and completes leading Dave
Haskins, Project Director of NGT, through his evidence</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-4-may-2-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-4-may-2-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here Gregory Jones QC cross examines Dave Haskins, Project
Director for NGT</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 3: 01.05.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt; text-align: justify;">
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-may-1-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-may-1-2014-first-morning-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Martin Farrington, Chief Development Officer for Leeds City
Council continues to be cross-examined by both private objector Malcolm Bell
and also Councillor Barry Anderson (C) of Adel, who raise many pertinent
questions, many of which Mr Farrington seems unable to answer.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late morning</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-may-1-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-may-1-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gregory Jones QC returns to cross examine Martin Farrington
for Leeds College of Art, and is followed by private objector Nigel Sleeman who
also cross examines Mr Farrington.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-may-1-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-may-1-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Foren, Chair of the A660 Joint Council of community
groups from along the A660 cross examines Martin Farrington.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> </span><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-3-may-1-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-3-may-1-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chris Foren, Chair of the A660 Joint Council concludes his
cross examination of Martin Farrington, Senior Development Officer for Leeds
City Council and one of the foremost proponents of the NGT trolleybus scheme
and is then followed by Neil Cameron QC for the Applicant who has a final
chance with Mr Farrington in which he tries to straighten out the case after
nearly two days of cross examination by hostile parties. </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 2: 30.04.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">First Session Wednesday 30.4.14</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Jones QC for First West Yorkshire cross examines Martin
Farrington who is senior development officer for Leeds City Council and who was
involved with the NGT planning proposal for LCC. </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning Session </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Jones QC, for First West Yorkshire, continues his cross
examination of Martin Farrington, development officer for Leeds City Council.</span></span></div>
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<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early afternoon Wednesday 30.4.14</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Jones QC continues to cross examine Martin Farrington,
senior development officer for Leeds City Council.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<br /></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late afternoon </span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cross examination of Martin Farrington, senior
development officer for Leeds City Council moves first to a short session from
a private objector and then to the North West Leeds Transport Forum.</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt">
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Heading3a" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Day 1: 29.04.14</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Opening Session</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-1-april-29-2014-opening-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-1-april-29-2014-opening-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This mostly covers the procedure for the coming weeks and
doesn't get onto the evidence or cases, but is essential to really understand
how all this will work. The Public Inspector is Mr Martin Whitehead who directs
the proceedings which were held at the Regus office building on Wellington Place
in the city centre.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late Morning Session </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-1-april-29-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-1-april-29-2014-late-morning-session/</a><span> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Starting with a few preliminary matters raised by Chris
Foren, the Chair of the A660 Joint Council, concerning the disclosure of the
feedback from the Public Consultation events of 2012/3 we then move on to the
first statement of case from NGT Metro Counsel, Mr Neil Cameron which takes up
most of this midday session.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Afternoon Session</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-1-april-29-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-1-april-29-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="Import8pt" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Most of this session is taken up with cross examination of a
witness for the applicants, Mr Martin Farrington who is senior development
officer with Leeds City Council.</span></span></div>
</div>
Cosmic Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01956437927031336935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940059668532065897.post-27598916518108639912014-10-31T17:00:00.001-07:002014-11-01T07:59:53.119-07:00Spooking the Trolleybus<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Trolleybus Enquiry has now ended, Mr Cameron has
given his final closing, and all the papers and documents carted away in their
voluminous box files. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The controlled passion of six months
of Enquiry and years of preparation has now been spent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There was a feeling like the end
of term and I was reminded of a ditty I probably haven’t thought of since I was
a child.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">No more going round the bend,</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The term is coming to an end</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">No more pain and no more sorrow,</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We will all be home tomorrow.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It felt strange also to be
leaving behind something that had become so much a part of the objectors lives
over this last half year.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Finishing and leaving it behind
on Hallowe’en, the end of the old Celtic calendar year, the gateway to the dark
of the year. We have often made jokes
about how it was likely to end on this day and the amusing connotations. I had often speculated that it might extend
to Bonfire Night, which would have provided a worthy end for a cardboard effigy
of the despised trolleybus, but no, we were spared the extra few days, and
Hallowe’en it was.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But this draws us into a dark
realm of bizarre coincidence, strange connections and perhaps crazy conspiracy
theory.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was a year ago exactly that
was the closing date for objections to the application for a Transport and
Works Act Order which triggered the Public Enquiry. So the entire process has been encompassed from Hallowe’en to
Hallowe’en.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mere coincidence of course. But we now move into the imaginative world
of numerology as we notice that the Enquiry has taken exactly 72 days. 72 is a number much beloved of
mathematicians and numerologists alike, being as it is one fifth of 360, the
number of degrees in a circle, as well as being the number of years it takes
for one degree of the precession of the equinoxes. Being one fifth of 360 means that it is also the external angle
of a pentagon, and the internal angle of the points of a pentagram, the power
symbol used by a variety of occult and mystical belief systems.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So by this one might imagine that
the Enquiry has been encompassed like a pentagram within the circle of the
year. Spooky synchronicity, or just an
imaginative interpretation?</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So far, so Goth.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But there are deeper and more
disturbing coincidences. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is an old legend that
crossroads were sometimes made on the graves of murdered people or the sites
where murders had taken place, probably related to ancient customs were animals
would be sacrificed into the foundations of major buildings or forts. At the crossroads it is said that one could
summon the Devil at special times, such as Hallowe’en.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The trolleybus, which one might
be forgiven for holding to be at least the metaphorical work of the Devil,
would actually pass over such a place along its route.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now I have to say at this
juncture that I speak as an Art Therapist of a Jungian inclination. The collective unconscious and group soul of
a community, or a place, is something which has been recognised throughout human
history as being of importance.
Seemingly only our modern technical civilisation is in denial of the
importance it holds, preferring to put all value in economic gain and leaving
no space for the inner world, the
numinous world of dreams and the imagination where our collective memories lurk
and linger.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is at times such as
Hallowe’en, the gap between the years, the wood between the worlds, when we
need to acknowledge the existence of these ghosts, these phantoms that remind
us of their existence, like Cathy at the window.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">NGT would make a crossroads and a
roundabout of the most tragic spot in Headingley, the spot on Alma Road where
the Yorkshire Ripper took his 13<sup>th</sup> and final unfortunate victim
Jacqueline Hill, on the evening of the 17<sup>th</sup> November 1980, thirty
three years before the Enquiry was triggered.
Thirty three is another number which is favoured by those with a
penchant for numerological interpretations, and there are groups who place
immense importance on this number. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was given the opportunity to
reference the matter of the Ripper murder, which I had thought too occult and
recherché for the Enquiry, when Mr Thomas Walker crassly referred to treating
Wood Lane ‘sensitively’ because of the Ripper murder, thus opening this subject
as a matter which could be examined on.
Though in referring to the incorrect location, (where NGT wishes to put
a stop and shelter) he was concerned for extreme sensitivity, when the correct
location was pointed out to him, (Alma Road) and it was suggested that having a
crossroad roundabout was not a sensitive treatment of that particular spot and
memory, he sneered that he thought I was making too much of it.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">As one who believes strongly in
the genius loci and collective memory it disturbs me to think that hundreds or
possibly thousands of people a day would pass over the unfortunate site on Alma
Road. Should they be shielded from
knowing this? Should it be denied as
too difficult to face and written out of local history so as to protect
commuters from the uncomfortable truths of our collective past? Alma means Soul.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I certainly know that I would
find it an unwelcome experience to know that I was travelling over this site of
desecration on a daily basis. Animistic
cultures, and any religion or belief system which acknowledges these realities
would say that this was a place of ill omen which should be left in peace and
not disturbed. The passage every few
minutes of a mechanical leviathan would mean that this spot would forever be
disturbed and in turmoil, never to rest as the spirits of the dead are meant
to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The truth has a way of getting
itself found out, and try as they might, those like Mr Walker who wish to deny
the human importance of such memories only seem to provoke them when they
attempt to instead dismiss them as of no value. There is no more vengeful spirit than the spirit who is disturbed
and debased. The grateful dead are
those who are left in peace and honoured at the appropriate times. Hallowe’en is one of those times when the
spirits come out from the cracks between the worlds and seek to be honoured.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a deep Jungian process
which we represent by ghouls and ghosts and monsters in popular culture, but
they are also deep unconscious currents that connect us with the essential
energies of the world about us, buried though they may seem to be, hidden from
our daily lives. But as an art
therapist it seems to me that these things, if ignored, nonetheless find their
way out in our actions, our body language, slips of the tongue or nervous twitches. And sometimes they find their way out in
more structured symbolic forms only interpretable from a long distance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It may be that some dark force is
guiding the trolleybus and showing itself through these numerological
symbolisms and strange coincidences with ancient practices and legends. Or it may be, that from a Jungian point of
view, the collective mind somehow organises our perceptions so that the
unforgettable is not forgotten. Like a
fractal forming around a point of chaos, or a pearl around a grain of sand,
reality, rather than being deletable, overwritten like the land which the
trolleybus track would be laid out on, is not infinitely malleable, but rather
has a character and a meaning which will come back to us until it is accepted
and integrated as part of who we are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">NGT takes no account of the
people, no account of the Soul of Headingley, or anywhere else along the route
for that matter, and that is why it has raised so much opposition.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tonight is Hallowe’en, the gap
between the worlds when we gaze into that dark space and open ourselves the
weirdness hiding behind consensus reality.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Inspector’s report knows
little of such things (although I did manage to mention the importance of
Social Anthropology in my Heritage cross examination), and will certainly not
be decided on the spooks and speculations of a maverick art therapist such as
myself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But the world is a greater thing
than mere reason can account for, and while economic forces grind on pressing
for this or that, the deeper collective psychological forces of the collective
mind continue to work their processes and are the invisible context to this all,
whether acknowledged or not. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
So kind reader, as Hallowe’en passes and the gap
in reality closes, put away these idle speculations and remember only that
there are more things in Heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in any
philosophy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of
Day 72 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, the final day, Wednesday 31st
October 2014, after dealing with procedural matters and outstanding issues Neil
Cameron QC commences the Closing Statement on behalf of the Applicant NGT for
the trolleybus scheme proposals.</span></span></div>
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of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 31<sup>st</sup> October 2014,
Neil Cameron QC completes his Closing Statement on the NGT case for a
trolleybus scheme. There is then a
short time given over to scheduling site visits including one to see First’s
latest bus, some remaining questions are dealt with, and the Inspector draws
the Enquiry to a close, thanking everyone for their good manners over the space
of the six months in which it has sat. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-71a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-oct-2014-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-71a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-oct-2014-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 71 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry uncertainty still remains as to whether the Leeds
College of Art will be presenting its case or whether a settlement has been
reached.<span> </span>In addition there is a
somewhat fraught exchange between Gregory Jones QC, the Inspector Mr Whitehead
and Neil Cameron QC about the timing of the Applicant’s presentation of their
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-71b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-oct-2014-midday-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-71b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-30-oct-2014-midday-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the short midday session of Day 71 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry we hear about the agreement which has ostensibly
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">After several of what seemed interminable delays, we at last got to hear the Closing Statement from Gregory Jones QC on behalf of his client, First West Yorkshire.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">There wasn't anything new of course at this stage and we've all heard the arguments rehearsed a thousand times over the last six months, or so it seems, but here it is at last, the comprehensive overview, even if limitations with the time meant that a lot of the detail had to be left out. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-70a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-29-oct-2014-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-70a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-29-oct-2014-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the short morning session of Day 70 of the
Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 29th October 2014, there is
discussion about programming matters before adjournment until the afternoon.</span></span><br />
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70 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 29th October 2014, Gregory
Jones QC makes the Closing Statement from First West Yorkshire after some
delays for the printing of documents.</span></span></div>
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Cosmic Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01956437927031336935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940059668532065897.post-10103543847982895552014-10-28T09:15:00.001-07:002014-10-28T12:49:47.960-07:00Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry Day 69<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was quite hard goi</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">ng today, and you will find the clearest material of the day in the final session, the closing statements from three of the most important objectors groups. These are unequivocal in their rejection of the scheme. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'll leave you with the words of Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies at the University of Leeds, Peter Bonsall when commenting on the </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Business case as presented by the</span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> NGT team: he considered it 'Weak flawed and misleading'. And there's plenty more where that came from. I won't blame you if you skip over the fine toothed combing of details of conditions in the first three sessions and jump into the closing session to get the good stuff.</span></span><br />
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lengthy discussion of the Deemed Planning Permissions with respect to the
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2014, Closing Statements are given on behalf of the Northwest Leeds Transport
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the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 23rd October 2014,
representatives from Leeds City Council, NGT, First West Yorkshire and the
North West Leeds Transport Forum as well as local residents discuss the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 66 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 21st October 2014, Carol Carey Campbell,
Publisher of North Leeds Life, gives her case against the NGT scheme and is
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Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 21st October 2014 Dr John Dickinson for the
Weetwood Residents Association gives evidence against the NGT scheme and is
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Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 21st October 2014. Mrs Katie Fabri, local
Headingley resident gives her evidence against the NGT proposals.</span></span></div>
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Park Residents and is followed by Michael Broadbent, former Traffic Police
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this last weekend when it became apparent that the recordings from Day 64 were
problematic in that Mr Brooks spoke more quietly than any other witness or
examiner at any day or sitting so far and was regrettably almost
inaudible. Clearly it was important
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audible. This thus required an immense
amount of revising of levels in an extremely selective manner. I should emphasise that no editing has been
done at any time to the recordings which would remove anything that was said,
nor has the order of what was said at any time been changed. On a small number of occasions the
recordings have been initialised a few moments after the Inspector resumed the
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This is the only loss of any substance in the recordings which has been
suffered. I am somewhat relieved that it was I who was suffered this loss being
the objector making the cross examination at the time, since no-one else will
be put in the position of having their verbal evidence caused to be
missing. Also this is of less
importance than it might have been since most of that lost section comprised of
questions which the witness at the time was unable to answer and which were
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-64a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-16-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 64 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 16th October 2014, Mr John Brooks gives his
statement of case and is examined by Gregory Jones QC for First West Yorkshire. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 64 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 16th October 2014, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Gregory Jones QC concludes his examination of </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr John Brooks for First
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoons session of Day 64 of the
Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 16th October 2014, Neil Cameron QC commences
his examination of Mr John Brooks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 64 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday 16th October 2014, Neil Cameron QC cross
examines Mr John Brooks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 63 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15<sup>th</sup> October 2014, is taken up
with programming matters and the matter of some late documents submitted by the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the mid morning session of Day 63 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Ms Katie
Lightbody, expert conservation witness for First West Yorkshire, gives her
evidence in chief and is examined on it by Gregory Jones QC</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 63 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Gregory
Jones QC concludes his examination of Ms Katie Lightbody, expert conservation
witness for First West Yorkshire, and is followed Mr Walton for the Applicant
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 63 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Gregory
Jones QC re-examines Ms Katie Lightbody.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 63 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 15<sup>th</sup> October 2014, the
Inspector holds an open round discussion on planning conditions should the TWA
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first morning session of Day 62 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> October 2014, is taken up
with programming matters for some forty minutes.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-mid-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-mid-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the mid morning session of Day 62 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Mr John Reid,
local resident, retired planner and private objector gives his evidence against
the NGT scheme.<span> </span>Mrs Jenny Phelps, the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of Day 62 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Mr Nabarro
gives the case on behalf of Mrs S Baskind, owner of property on Shaw Lane
corner and is followed by Cllr Barry Anderson (C) Adel and Wharfedale, who is
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-62d-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-14-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 62 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Mr Geoff
Steele gives the case on behalf of Dr Ruth Cunliffe for the Adel Association,
and Cllr Jonathan Bentley (Cllr for Weetwood) speaks on his own objection and
on behalf of his constituents.</span></span></div>
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<span>In the late afternoon session of Day 62 of the
Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> October 2014, Mr Nigel
Sleeman gives his case against the NGT scheme and is cross examined by both Mr
Walton and the Inspector.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-61a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-61a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-10-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of Day 6 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Friday 9th Oct 2014, Mr Stuart Natkus on behalf of
Morley House Trust (LGHS) and other local Statutory Objectors, gives their
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of
Day 6 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Friday 9th Oct 2014, Mr Stuart
Natkus on behalf of Morley House Trust (LGHS) and other local Statutory
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the afternoon session of Day 6 of the Leeds Trolleybus
Public Enquiry, Friday 9th Oct 2014, Mr Stuart Natkus is cross examined by Neil
Cameron QC for the Applicant NGT as well as by the Inspector.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">As week 15 ground to a close, and
the Enquiry has now extended to over twice the length originally anticipated
(by NGT I should hasten to add), we saw Mr Stuart Natkus for the statutory
objectors along Headingley Lane and on Headingley Hill present his case against
the trolleybus scheme, or at least against a lot of details which are part of
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have a little joke I make about
Mr Natkus, for which I hope he will forgive me. Doubtless my readers will know the saying ‘The enemy of my enemy
is my friend’. And Mr Natkus, or at
least the clients whom he is representing, are enemies of NGT. So in this he is our friend. However life is never simple. While, of necessity, their case is made on
as many technical heritage grounds as can be found, and they are essentially
restricted to objections around the properties which they own, their prime
objective must be to minimise the impact on those properties. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And several of those properties
have highly contentious developments pending in one way or another. If the trolleybus doesn’t go ahead then
there is still the application to build on the fields which are currently
grazed by horses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And clearly the old Leeds Girls’
High School site which is the principle property that is being defended has
great development potential and has failed to realise this because of the
planning blight which has hung over it for so long. Desirable residences could be established in several of the old
buildings, but the question of whether a slice of land would be taken from the
northern edge of it along Headingley Lane has been the problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">However, for a good many of the
objectors, what was already a complicated local heritage and development issue
is made a great deal more so because of the proposed building development on
the Victoria Road playing fields site which is attached to this. And Mr Natkus is involved with this highly
controversial issue which has raised questions in the minds of local residents
about the planning decision to build on a green field in such a heavily built
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And so, while the enemy of my
enemy is my friend, in the particular context of the Trolleybus Enquiry, at the
same time he is our enemy, as he is working for the interests who would cause
this asset of green space to be lost forever as well as quite possibly the
field on Headingley Hill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The subjects of his evidence were
fairly predictable if you have heard his cross examinations of some of the
witnesses, focussing on the question of whether it would not be better and more
practicable to leave out the proposed segregated cycle track on Headingley
Lane, and leave any road widening to the northern, uphill side of the
road. He also concentrated on arguing
that if widening were to take place on the southern side (his clients side)
that the old Design Freeze 2 plans should be implemented, only taking a very
narrow slice on this section, rather than the 3 to 5 meters of the more recent
Design Freeze 7. Interestingly, this is
the same preference for DF2 as Mr Barraclough had for the grounds around
Headingley Castle a few days, earlier, and when you take into account that both
argue for the trolleybus track to go in the defile now occupied by St Columba’s
church car park, and that that should be relocated to the adjacent part of the
field now currently grazed by horses, (proposed for the ‘pocket park’) it seems
not impossible that they might have co-ordinated their cases. Which they are entitled to do. Clearly First West Yorkshire and the Leeds
College of Art have done the same thing in that they are employing the same
counsel, and it cannot have been out of their ken that this would make a
stronger and more comprehensive case.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And so quite possibly with the
owners of these other pieces of land such as the Roman Catholic Diocese,
Hinsley Hall and Headingley Properties and Headingley Castle. They would almost be fools not to organise
some pincer attack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One thing I do wonder about
though, is whether by offering the kinds of alternatives that they do, they are
trying to impress on the Inspectors the severe limitations of the proposed
trolleybus route, especially through this heritage rich zone on Headingley
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I’m thinking here of the, in my
own view at least, unworkable idea of widening Headingley Lane on the north
side. It would be one thing to build up
the south side where the hill falls away in order to create a new carriageway,
an ugly and destructive proposal, but one which would be possible in
engineering terms. However, to cut away
several meters of land on the north side for this purpose creates a serious
regrading problem from the very steep side roads such as Cumberland Road,
Grosvenor Road and the listed Ashwood Villas, amongst others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are listed buildings,
structures and walls on both sides of the road and it is so rich, despite the
run down nature of some parts, that I am frankly staggered at the audacity of
Metro in attempting to pull such a road widening off. Perhaps we should remember Councillor Richard Lewis’s remark at
the Headingley Public Meeting last summer that this is ‘far more of a Highways
scheme than one of public transport’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">They want road widenings is what
I read from this. Cllr Lewis is
disingenuous in the extreme in his zealous crusade to implement the NGT scheme,
claiming that the need for it is driven by the fact that there is too much
traffic on the A660, but he himself was instrumental in helping to seal the
deal for the (ghastly) new Victoria Gate development (for which we have lost
half of our heritage in Eastgate) which has an increase of some 375 car parking
spaces for shoppers who wish to bring their cars into the city centre.</span></span></div>
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Development Officer for Leeds City Council and the first witness at the Enquiry
proudly stated at the beginning of his testimony that one of his recent
achievements was his involvement with that very Victoria Gate development. These two gentlemen work closely in Council,
as befits their positions, but they apparently see no contradiction in on the
one hand encouraging hundreds more cars into the city centre while at the same
time complaining that there are too many cars coming into the city centre and
arguing that that is sufficient reason to demand we are subjected to the
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when the trolleybus had died a doubtless swift and tragic death, could be
filled up by the cars of those they have encouraged to park in city centre car
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So by defending their own patches
on strong technical heritage grounds, the statutory objectors around Headingley
Hill represented by Mr Natkus and Mr Barraclough are obliging the Applicant and
the Inspectors to look at the fact that if you want to widen roads, the
alternatives to those you have designs on are equally fraught in various different
ways. One hopes that they are getting
the message that our narrow Victorian streets are not suitable for such a
project and would be irrevocably damaged.
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Before I wind up I will just mention something
that appears to be good news, and which I will elaborate upon later, but it
seems that a witness for Leeds College of Art may be coming to speak. There has been some uncertainty about this
and Mr Jones has suggested that their position was not clear, but we are keeping
out fingers crossed that this does not fall through. In the words of the
Inspector ‘It doesn’t look like they are going to come to an agreement’ so
their witness has been tentatively scheduled for the Wednesday 29<sup>th</sup>
and Thursday 30<sup>th</sup> of October, which if that remains the case must be
seen as good news for the Objectors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Again I have got a little more behind with things and am now considering that it may be the end of the enquiry before I will be able to 'back blog' the gaps that have crept into this day by day diary of the proceedings. However, since we do not expect there to even be the Inspector's report by the time of the General Election, it will remain a live political issue for some time to come and so it will be worth the trouble of going back and filling in the gaps. Apologies to my readers that I am presently unable to give you updates in as near to real time as I have done for the earlier parts of the enquiry, but the audio recordings are the prime concern at present and these blogs are really just tasters to get you to listen to them, so I hope you will, regardless of when I am able to post a considered commentary.</span></span></div>
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Thursday 9th Oct 2014, retired town planner Mr Tony Ray gives the Heritage case
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-60c-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-9-oct-2014-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-first-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 8th Oct 2014,<span> </span>Dawn Carey Jones on behalf of the South Headingley Community
Association and herself gives the cases against the NGT trolleybus scheme.<span> </span>Sue Buckle of the SHCA also supports this
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-late-morning-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-59b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-8-oct-2014-late-morning-session/</a></span></span></div>
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Day 59 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 8th Oct 2014, Dawn
Carey Jones on behalf of the South Headingley Community Association and herself
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59 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 8th Oct 2014,<span> </span>Mr Walton for the Applicant NGT and the
Inspector cross examine Dawn Carey Jones and Sue Buckle on their cases for
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into the final month, or so we are all hoping.<span>
</span>Even at this late stage the programme is suffering change and
reorganisation.<span> </span>I don’t envy the task
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The loss of Ms Katie Lightbody from
this week’s schedule yesterday was something of a blow to the smooth running of
the proceedings, but fortunately we were back on track today with the
presentation of evidence from Dawn Carey Jones of the South Headingley
Community Association, assisted by local resident of some fifty years, Sue
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My good friend Dawn has appeared
on a number of occasions for cross examination of the NGT witnesses, but today
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she speaks about the area she loves, and indeed which I lived in myself for
about a decade before I moved up to West Headingley.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Her case covered a wide range of
aspects of the trolleybus scheme, from practical points which the roads
engineers and traffic modellers had neglected to pay attention to or had
detailed poorly, to the monstrous affront of the consultations which had been
almost farcically carried out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The point of the consultation
responses was raised again and we found out that only 45 responses out of some
340 or so were actually supportive of the trolleybus scheme.<span> </span>Amongst these were general comments that
indicated the writer didn’t really know much about it, but just thought that an
improvement in public transport would be a good thing.<span> </span>The majority of the remainder were opposed,
and there were many concerned complaints about the consultation process, or
about misinformation and the inadequate website etc etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is not only an important
point in respect of how it is certainly perceived by objectors that the
consultations were biased and highly flawed ~ for instance the appearance of
the landscape designs the <i>day after</i> the Plans Panel day in Council last
year ~ but indicates that while some people were in favour of the idea in the
most general principle, that they didn’t really understand what it was that
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a common and widespread
tale.<span> </span>Former trolleybus supporters are
like ex-smokers, more vigorous in their opposition than those who have never
been seduced by its lures.<span> </span>I saw Dr Maurice
King, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, local Hyde Park
resident and deep green environmentalist, in the audience today.<span> </span>I recall that when he first heard about the
scheme in 2012 he was gung ho for it, but a few weeks later when the subject
was mentioned again he didn’t have a good word to say for it.<span></span></span></span></div>
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can’t blame people for this reaction when they find out any of the many
downsides to the trolleybus scheme.</span></span></span></div>
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destruction of the fancy dress shop, the former garage, and the row of shops in
the angle of Headingley Lane and Victoria Road is a troubling matter for the
small businesses and the local residents who shop there.<span> </span>I particularly admire Dawn in the way she
has stood up to the misrepresentation of these buildings by Metro and the
Council.</span></span></span></div>
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are perpetually portrayed as run down, ramshackle, in need of repair, little
more than lean tos thrown up and of no importance.</span></span></span></div>
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have been allowed to become run down, which is a much exaggerated statement (as
are so many that NGT makes) it cannot be unrelated to the fact that Metro are
the owners of them and through a mixture of their own neglect and the planning
blight associated with their uncertain future, there is demonstration of a
clear desire if not actual intent to get rid of these buildings. </span></span></span></div>
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there are rarely any of them left empty for long.<span> </span>Low rent premises in such a convenient place for passing trade
are hard to come by.<span> </span>I used to commonly
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aesthetic value of the shops is also falsely derided by the NGT assessors, who
said that the frontages were cheap modern ones, when actually they still have
the original Victorian features.<span> </span>And
the description in the Heritage documents says they are early 20<sup>th</sup>
C, when actually documentary evidence exists that they are clearly from at
least the 1890s.<span> </span>These are not the only
buildings which have been wrongly dated as 20<sup>th</sup> C.<span> </span>Their continued occupancy and use for some
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City Council and Metro, now WYCA, have no interest or concern for the needs or
aspirations of local people.<span> </span>If they
did they would not seek to overwrite their very lives with their own grand
designs which will obliterate the history and identity which is an integral
part of the <i>genius loci</i> of the place.<span>
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what it was like when the young Professor Tolkien would walk these streets
ninety years ago I have been able to see greater value in the surviving legacy
of past generations.<span> </span>A legacy which
would be all too casually swept away for the ‘bold initiatives’ and ‘exciting
design opportunities’ of people whose only interest seems to be in making their
own marks rather than really thinking about the effects they might have on
people and place.</span></span></span></div>
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road designs that go with all this are often not even safe.<span> </span>Ms Jones identified that the loss of
railings in front of the LS6 Café for a trolleybus stop would tempt pedestrians
to take short cuts across this busy road.<span>
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café where people sit outside the south facing frontage, and so which would
have disbenefits to the business and cause obstruction for people queuing for
the trolleybus.<span> </span>Both would be adversely
affected.<span> </span>If you know this frontage you
will know that it is not an appropriate place to be putting a stop for an
articulated vehicle, too near by far as it is to the Hyde Park Corner traffic
lights and opposite the open end of Victoria Road.</span></span></span></div>
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litany of disregard for heritage and people is added to with their shoddy and
inadequate planning and design.<span> </span>The
trouble for NGT is that they have so little to work with and would have to do
so much more damage than they already purpose to in order to really make it
work, that they are continually faced with having to squeeze through narrow
bottlenecks in our Victorian streets, or to simply destroy them and have done.</span></span></span></div>
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Walton in his cross examination took the now familiar line trying to suggest
that simply getting a witness to agree that some sort of improvement to public
transport arrangements on the Headingley Lane would be beneficial is enough to
justify the trolleybus.<span> </span>He tried to pin
down Dawn Jones demanding that she offer alternate solutions, but she quite
rightly said that she was not an expert and could not make recommendations
other than perhaps a tube, but that her view was that the entire concept of the
trolleybus was flawed and a bad idea and that it was one idea which should be
rejected. </span></span></span></div>
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what many people have said, not just long term residents who get accused of
being ‘nimbys’ (although what is wrong with valuing your community heritage and
trying to protect it is not clear to me).<span>
</span>The trolleybus is pretty much the worst of all solutions that might be
applied to Leeds traffic issues.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For the issues go far
beyond the A660, and we must see our problems in the broader context of the
entire city.<span> </span>Eviscerating the string of
pearls that are the Conservation areas along the A660 is only one more of the
political agendas behind the trolleybus, in which community is to be trampled
under foot in the stampede for endless economic development which serves none but
the large corporate empires.<span> </span>Meanwhile
the slaves are to be trolleybussed into the work pens in the city, standing
like cattle, seven to a square meter, through the bulldozed remnants of our
communities.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here is the link to the audio recording of today's brief session at the Enquiry. The discussion is about how to programme in order to make the best use of time taking into account the availability of witnesses. The session was broken briefly so I have joined both pieces together with a two second gap to indicate the adjournment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-58-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-oct-2014-only-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-58-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-7-oct-2014-only-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">On Day 58 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry,
Tuesday 7th Oct 2014 there was only one
short session since the programmed witness Ms Katie Lightbody had been taken
ill last night. There was discussion
around the programming schedule. The
Enquiry resumes tomorrow, Wednesday 8<sup>th</sup> October at <b>9.30 </b>am.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The second Heritage Week begins with
Mrs Katie Peerless assisting the Inspector.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Audio recordings for the two afternoon sessions are linked here and I follow this with some commentary on the proceedings below. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-57a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-6-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-57a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-6-oct-2014-early-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the early afternoon session of Day 57 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Mr Ian Barraclough, on behalf of the residents and
management of Headingley Castle, give their cases against the NGT proposals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-57b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-6-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-57b-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-6-oct-2014-late-afternoon-session/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late afternoon session of Day 57 of the Leeds
Trolleybus Public Enquiry Mr Ian Barraclough, on behalf of the residents and
management of Headingley Castle, continues to give their cases against the NGT </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was an interesting couple of
sessions to observe, especially if you are interested in the heritage aspects
of the scheme.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don’t actually fully agree with
Mr Barraclough’s position myself, but it is nonetheless an interesting one, and
it will be the case that people come at this from different positions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Clearly his first concern are the
residents of Headingley Castle and the business which manages it.<span> </span>Headingley Castle is a Grade 2 listed
building and yet there had been no direct consultation with anyone there prior
to last summer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The problems which arise are
around the fact that the trolleybus would not only run within the curtilage of
the Castle grounds but across the south facing view of the open parkland in
front of it.<span> </span>There would also be some
issues around the drive and boundary wall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr Barraclough cited an
impressive series of documents detailing the formal guidance on the considerations
which should be taken into account when dealing with a situation like this near
a listed building.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The chief issue was the
visibility of the running trolleybus from in front of the house, following on
the Design Freeze 7 line.<span> </span>The earlier
Design Freeze 2, from a previous stage, had it running through the much lower
car park of St Columba’s Church which is cut into the hillside up to almost 2
meters in places.<span> </span>This, the examination
of Mr Walton elicited, would not be a serious problem for Headingley Castle,
hidden as it would be in a cutting and masked to a certain degree by the new
planted trees, which of course would take a good number of years to mature.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Personally I would have liked him
to take a stronger line of rejection of the scheme, but he has to do what he
thinks best.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">However, this is not the end of
it.<span> </span>There have been some considerable
goings on about that very car park between St Columba’s and NGT.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is my understanding that the
car park which was a matter of some concern to the management of the church
because of consequent loss of users while it was taken up with NGT plant and
vehicles was a point of issue which was resolved behind the scenes.<span> </span>Whilst congregation and users of the church
remain opposed, the management found some accommodation with the Applicant
which is not entirely clear.</span></span></div>
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that his case for minimising the impact (if the ghastly thing had to go ahead)
is a strong one and that the parkland view from the Castle should be protected
as much as possible and putting the route into a cutting behind the church
would make a big difference with that.</span></span></div>
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is that the church is even worse off than before.<span> </span>What was only a temporary loss of the car park which would affect
room bookings would now be permanent, and the trolleybus would have to go
within a few yards of the church.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And the dominoes don’t stop
here.<span> </span>A suggestion was put forward by
Mr Barraclough in his case that a new car park for the lost 17 spaces could be
sited just to the south in what is the adjacent piece of land where the horses
currently graze.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But this piece of land has been
earmarked for the ‘pocket park’ which is supposed to provide Headingley with
some new green space in the event of the scheme proceeding.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The pocket park is a rather sad
little idea.<span> </span>It relies mostly on its
funny little name and the delusion that putting a road with poles and wires
through a green field that has probably never been built on, and then designating a fragment of that field, that could not be put
to any other use because it is so small, as a ‘new green space for Headingley’,
would somehow be ‘improving’ the area, as I seem to recall Mr Flesher of Parks
suggested an eternity ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So I was left wondering if Mr
Barraclough was being incredibly subtle and clever in passing the problem
along, not it the hope that it would go away, but in the almost certain and
clear knowledge that it would not, and would be batted down the line (as so
many things in the examination of this scheme have been), causing consequent
change and stress to other factors which had ostensibly been sorted out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don’t know if the Inspector
will come to the same conclusion about this as I did, but to me all this
demonstrated a fact which has been pointed out by a significant number of
objectors, not least among them Professor Bonsall and Mr Archbold.<span> </span>And that fact is that this is not a suitable
route for a system such as this.<span> </span>The
streets are too narrow and the character too well established for it.<span> </span>The only way it could be achieved would be
by massive destruction and invasion of existing established buildings, heritage
and so forth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To satisfy one objector, it would
be necessary to harm another.<span> </span>And to
get out of doing that, it would be necessary to reduce what scant provision is
being offered to balance all the disbeneficial impact on the area.</span></span></div>
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<span>This is simply another example in the perpetual
stream which has issued from the enquiry of instances of inadequate
consultation and planning, while at the same time over egging the pudding with
grossly inflated claims which cannot be supported.<span> </span>They are trying to do too much in too little space and seek to
persuade us that a sow’s ear is a silk purse.</span></span></span></div>
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the Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry, Friday 3<sup>rd</sup> October 2014 cases of
objection to NGT are given by Mr Mike Holmes Practice Manager Highfield Surgery
in Holt Park, Matthew Hill local resident and finally Catherine Shuttleworth,
Governor of Richmond House School.
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morning session of Day 55 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday
October 2014, Mr Jeff Fawcett gives the case on behalf of Adel and Wharfedale
Labour Part.<span> </span>This if followed by cases
from Mr John Crawley on questions around Burton Crescent and Janet Matthews a
qualified accountant on the public expenditure involved. There is some
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the late morning session of
Day 55 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday October 2014, Lorraine
Nelis, tenant of the fields on Headingley Hill and Mr Ian Simpson both give
their cases for objection to the NGT scheme and there is some examination from
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Day 55 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Thursday October 2014 , cases
for objection are given by Mr Alan Haigh, and by Mr George Geapin who
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George Geapin is examined by the Inspector. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the first morning session of
Day 54 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 1<sup>st</sup> October
2014 Neil Cameron QC on behalf of the Applicant NGT continues to cross examine
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Day 54 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 1<sup>st</sup> October
2014 Neil Cameron QC on behalf of the Applicant NGT concludes his cross
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Day 54 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 1<sup>st</sup> October
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Day 54 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Wednesday 1<sup>st</sup> October
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this stuff rather opaque to my own personal skills, but even that tells me
something.<span> </span>As a former teacher I’m a
great believer that things should be able to be expressed in forms which can be
easily understood, building from general overviews to more detail once the
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which should be obvious to any layperson who gives them more than a casual
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demonstrating seriously flawed methodologies with consultation, (the absurd
comparison of old and super modern buses apparently justifying a trolley
system), modelling (Mr Hanson’s 50% variability of predicted use at Bodington)
and on and on would have been enough, but Mr Cameron goes into endless detail
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relevance of is his continually returning to the assumption that since the DfT
has allowed the scheme to get this far then it must already have received
enough scrutiny to allow it to go further.<span>
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where he can’t recommend against NGT because he would be going against the
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through the process of the Public Enquiry?<span>
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cost by the time it is over in another month of so, but it must be a
substantial amount, and I heard the figure of £4million mentioned the other day
which wouldn’t seem unreasonable for the hire of the suite at the Regus
Building, paying the Inspector and seemingly dozens of NGT wonks who come and
go on the Applicant’s side of the room, not least Neil Cameron QC.<span> </span>Silks don’t come cheap and guesses at how
much he might be getting paid (on Leeds taxpayers’ tab) can be based on the
following ‘<span>The 10 to 15 percent [of
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>I don’t know if they fit
into the following</span> <span>category ‘</span><span>Barristers
doing <b><span style="color: red;">Chancery</span></b><span style="color: red;">, <b>commercial</b>
</span>and other specialist work have incomes twice as great as those working
in criminal or family law do.’<span> </span>But it
seems possible.<span> </span>So he may be on as much
as £1,000 a day, and then he has his junior Mr Walton, who I understand is not
Silk but nonetheless is probably getting what most of us would consider a
bundle.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Then there are all the NGT
witnesses and backroom people who have prepared all the documents (the late
submitted Heritage Doc B-13 was massive and the printing alone would have cost
several thousand I am reliably informed by a contact I have in the printing
industry).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Of course the objectors,
amongst them First West Yorkshire bus company, have to pay their own way.<span> </span>You can imagine that the Directors of First
would have quite a grudge on with WYCA (formerly Metro), not only for making a
seriously hostile attempt to destroy their business and making unsubstantiated
claims that they had been unco-operative, but also for having to spend probably
a million or more on their own case merely to defend themselves from sharp and
biased business practice.<span> </span>In fact, not
only is the proposed prioritised scheme probably illegal in enforcing a
preferential two tier system, but it is now well understood that WYCA wants to
increase its political control over public transport providers and get into the
game of becoming a provider itself.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>If they were to be
successful with the NGT bid, we have been told that they would want to follow
it with a roll out of trolleybuses on several other routes in Leeds and
eventually throughout West Yorkshire.<span>
</span>With a price tag of at least £28m per mile and vehicles costing hundreds
of thousands of pounds, when this would be the only trolleybus system in the
UK, that would be a dangerous path to follow.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>One thing that has struck me
for a while, is that trying to put a trolleybus line through the Conservation
Area ‘string of pearls’ that stretches unbroken from the University to the ring
road is setting themselves a very difficult task in terms of planning, whereas
the Kirkstall Road, the A65, is already wide enough for such a scheme at least
in the parts where it approaches the city centre, would connect easily into
Wellington Street for the station, and an extension to Bradford would make more
sense if it were established along the link road between the two cities beyond
Horsforth.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Not that I am in favour of
such a scheme, but it certainly would have fewer hurdles to jump than one up
the A660, through the ‘jewel in the crown of Leeds’ as it was described by the
Chair of the Planning Committee some years ago, who also said at the time that
Headingley should have everything done to protect it.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So why are they attempting this
unsuitable route?<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some readers may know of the
story of Wentworth Woodhouse, one of our finest stately homes, which had Coal
Board strip mining to within a hundred yards or so of the frontage in the post
war period.<span> </span>The man responsible was
Manny Shinwell who it is strongly believed by many simply wanted to put the
owners in their place and let them know who was boss.<span> </span>The need for coal can’t have been so desperate that they couldn’t
look<span> </span>elsewhere for a few tons of the
stuff (I was brought up in the ’60s with the mantra that Britain had enough
coal underground for 400 years, and the deeper stuff is often much better than
the shallow open cast material) so it is not unreasonable in my view to agree
with the position that Mr Shinwell had another agenda, one which the Labour
Party were not ashamed of at the time.<span>
</span>I speak of course of bringing down the hoity toities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Or as Cllr Richard Lewis said to
me after the Headingley public meeting about the trolleybus scheme last year
‘never think you can have progress without doing some damage’.<span> </span>Nice excuse.<span> </span>However it is one which conveniently ignores the fact that
different people have different values and what some might do with gusto is
what others would consider vandalism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So it would seem to me that a
significant part of the thinking behind this is that if they can break the will
of the independently minded residents of the A660 route and achieve the
degradation of the finest extended route through Leeds, then implementing a
further series of connecting routes would be made a great deal easier, one
might almost consider inevitable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">During the eighties and nineties
I considered myself solid Labour but I see things differently after Mr B.Liar
decided it was a good idea to get involved in a war without end, and on a local
basis our own Council have been behaving in the draconian manner that we see
exemplified by the way the have attempted to ram NGT down our throats, and
Councillors such as John Illingworth get suspended for doing things that they
didn’t even know was against party policy.<span>
</span>(Not that I have any preference to other parties I should add.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I hope I shan’t alienate some of
my more left leaning readers, but it has become plain that largely as the
instrument of Leeds City Council, WYCA is attempting to pursue a very
undemocratic and far left policy, not only of looking for more involvement in
transport, but much more dramatically and importantly, to do down the
successful private sector company that provides such a good service to
passengers on the A660, while at the same time putting those smug well heeled
types with their nice heritage in their place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The manner in which they have
attempted to foist this on the taxpayers of Leeds has involved seriously flawed
and even manipulated consultations, repeatedly making claims which aren’t even
in their case (reduction of traffic congestion, which they actually admit would
probably get worse due to the delays to other traffic caused by trolleybus
prioritisation at junctions) and repeating these false or dubious claims until
the most sceptical listener could be forgiven for repeating them in their
sleep.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just as Mr Haskins went back to
the WYCA meeting last week to tell them that all was hunky dory at the enquiry
(I assume they don’t wish to flatter me by bothering to actually listen to the
evidence themselves online and thereby admit privately to themselves that they
should have provided some kind of recording or transcript) their more low level
lackeys continue the propaganda war in the response columns in the Yorkshire
Evening Post.<span> </span>Principle amongst these
must be the gentleman (I’m trying to be polite here) who styles himself
‘oldsyphilitic’ and routinely posts replies to news items or letters concerning
the trolleybus.<span> </span>Endlessly churning out
his cyclic tropes about ‘naysayers’ and how we don’t know what a good thing we
are on to, besides which we “will” (his neurolingistic attack on our
assumptions that it could be rejected) get to love it when it is, or rather,
would be, on our streets.<span> </span>Perhaps I
should mention that he is a Bradford resident and therefore is not making a
case at the enquiry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He never of course makes
considered responses to issues raised or points made, he just goes on about us
naysaying ‘nimbies’.<span> </span>A term I cordially
despise since that too is more neurolingistics aimed at undermining our local
sense of value in our mature heritage community.<span> </span>Of course, you shouldn’t care about your own community, that’s <b><i>selfish</i></b>.<span> </span>We can’t be allowed to defend our social
cohesion and environment which contributes to a good quality of life and
encourages community spirit.<span> </span>No ~ to be
a good sheep we have to sacrifice everything to the great god of the
State.<span> </span>These nihilist <span> </span>sneers seek to degrade the sense of local
identity and pride in human value.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And are repeatedly churned out,
again and again and again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So this is truly turning into a
propaganda war.<span> </span>And as in all such
wars, the facts, or even the truth are to some of no importance.<span> </span>Just as in Orwell’s 1984, the perception is
everything, there is no truth, only what the party designates to currently be
the line.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Meanwhile, the Public Enquiry
grinds on with ever deeper condemnations of the flawed methodologies, vague estimates,
unjustified views and now a continuous stream of outraged private objectors
saying that they have not been properly consulted and that it would be expected
to seriously damage a high proportion of small businesses along the route.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">All of which should have been
properly and formally put in the public domain with Council or WYCA funded
daily podcasts, streaming and transcripts, all cheap and readily available
services which can now be put online.<span>
</span>So if we as the objectors group were not co-ordinating the public
uploading of our own recordings to demonstrate what has really been coming out
of the enquiry examinations, no-one, that is NO-ONE who had not been present
would really know one way or the other what was going on except by casual word
of mouth or private correspondence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is frankly iniquitous and
is, for me at least, the single biggest condemnation of the whole process.<span> </span>The false assertions made by NGT would
continue to be bandied about and what could people do to rebut them other than to
say ‘Well my friend was there and told me that such and such was
established’.<span> </span>If it is not properly in
the public domain it didn’t happen in the eyes of many, and that is how our
wonderful, supposedly <i>democratic</i> political leaders want it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">As a lighter aside, I’d like to
briefly draw attention to my spelling, which a colleague who is a former
English teacher mentioned to me.<span> </span>My own
spelling of ‘Enquiry’ in particular, as opposed to the official Public Inquiry
spelling.<span> </span>I began using my own spelling
with an ‘E’ since that is the one I was brought up with.<span> </span>A few day into the ‘Inquiry’ I noticed the
variation between the two, so went hotfoot to my Shorter Oxford English
Dictionary, (Vol 1) and was relieved to find that both spellings are
acceptable.<span> </span>However, for continuity’s
sake I have continued using my original spelling on all recording and blog
headers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyway, to briefly return to the
evidence at the Enquiry, or Inquiry, however you like it, I will just give one
last example of how NGT have attempted to pull the wool over our eyes and
hoodwink us.<span> </span>One small detail that was
winkled out the other day was that the Low Cost Alternative which involved
upgrading bus stops (shelters, seats, lights, cctv, real time display) was massively
more expensive per stop than the apparent cost for doing it for a trolleybus
route.<span> </span>As I understood Professor
Bonsall it was the case that they were saying ‘Don’t do that, you won’t get
much for your money, but do ours, you’ll get super duper value!’ but the costs
were not applied in an equal way and so the comparison was entirely misleading.<span> </span>Again…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have heard it said that the
truth need no defence.<span> </span>On the contrary,
I would agree with Churchill when he said that a lie will be half way round the
world while the truth is still getting its boots on.<span> </span>The truth is a strong weapon, but it has to be wielded
assertively or else it is of little value.</span></span></div>
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<span>This then is, as are all politics eventually, a
psychological war.<span> </span>A war of mindsets,
where political ideology and will attempts to triumph over truth and common
sense.<span> </span>But with the internet we seem to
have come to a point where people no longer feel isolated and disempowered but
are prepared to stand up and speak things as they see them, for they realise
that they are not alone.</span></span></span></div>
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the extent that the Inspector by the final session was asking to have something
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itself.<span> </span>It can be a labour and a chore
sometimes listening to more droning on from one side or the other, but Peter
Bonsall demonstrated today why he had achieved his position as a Professor of
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a long list of failings that NGT is subject to, but the fact that he got it all
over in such a clear and simple manner that enabled him to achieve his
end.<span> </span>If you look at the text of the
document I published here on my blog yesterday you could see a similarity in
content which might suggest his influence.<span>
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judgements inflate the viability of the scheme.<span> </span>Greenhouse gas emissions would be increased.<span> </span>The Leeds Traffic Model predicts increase in
accidents against the WebTAG guidance that changes should have predictions of
fewer accidents.<span> </span>That it would lead to
a reduction in cycling and walking.<span>
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not broadly enough the case and it instead reduced connectivity such that
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in the Regus building and told us that the passenger density of NGT at full
capacity would have the lift of just over two square meters carrying 17
people.<span> </span>Clearly this is absurd.<span> </span>Or at least to some of us it is.</span></span></div>
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was the single most important issue and then this led into the whole business
of models, predictions, traffic flows and so forth.<span> </span>Dry stuff, but it was easily followed, succinct and gave a good
overview while at the same time cramming in quite a large amount of hard
detailed data.<span> </span>If you only listen to
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of it, so you have to have that under your belt anyway, but I can’t tell you the
afternoon is easy listening.<span> </span>I lost the
thread on it numerous times, and this was the part where the Inspector admitted
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There was a lot of talk about the
people at the DfT and what their position was on all the evidence they had been
given of the business case, whether they properly understood what had been put
to them by Metro, a concern raised by Peter Bonsall, or whether as Mr Cameron
suggested, they fully understood it and thought it fine.<span> </span>He had begun his cross examination by asking
the Professor if he had ever made a business case, to which he had to reply in
the negative, but we have to ask if Mr Cameron has spent a lifetime studying
transport and the planning that is necessary for it.<span> </span>Barristers such as he and Mr Jones are extremely sharp and able
people, proficient in taking instructions on data that they have to digest and
present as an argument on very short notice, but they are of necessity
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the Enquiry down with quibbles about government funding procedures and
statistical models that only a competent mathematician could grasp, but this
was all to take us away from the clear evidence which Peter Bonsall had given
in his evidence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I would suggest that to quibble
over the percentage points of mathematical formulae is a distraction when you
have overriding matters such as that the passenger demand estimates were
clearly being exaggerated, the fact that most people like to have a seat, that
prioritising traffic lights would cause congestion for other road users and the
like and so on and so forth.<span> </span>Much as I
love the heritage and mature trees in Headingley I don’t think I heard them
mentioned once, demonstrating that this is so much more than the condescending
‘nimbyism’ we are too often accused of.<span>
</span>Frankly, this is a bad scheme, badly conceived, on the wrong route, with
massively disproportionate overheads (if you will pardon the dreadful pun).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There seemed to be a lot of
critical examination from Mr Cameron, but it was not clear what any of it
achieved, although I imagine it was designed to trick or catch out the
Professor into betraying himself with some huge clanger.<span> </span>The Inspector actually said something about
how he was probably the only person in the room who actually understood a
particular point.<span> </span>And he could well
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<span>The opinion amongst several of the objectors
afterwards that this was mostly a filibuster by Mr Cameron having to spend some
time earning his keep.<span> </span>Perhaps there is
some great master plan which will become clear, or perhaps he is clutching at
straws.<span> </span>If we are left down to who
understands the detail better, I would lay my own money on the man who has not
only spent his life studying this stuff, but has also carried out many research
studies and been consultant to government transport committees and so
forth.<span> </span>For NGT’s counsel to try to
discredit him as in some way, inexperienced, or out of his depth, or not in
full grasp of the modelling, the procedures, the targets etc etc is a risky
strategy as it could quite possibly just demonstrate the solidity and sense of
Peter Bonsall’s position, like a furious wave crashing down to break on a
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">Audio recordings of today's sessions are linked here, and below I am pleased to present a document I have been given permission to publish. </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-52a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-26-sept-2014-first-morning-session/" target="_blank">http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-52a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-26-sept-2014-first-morning-session/</a></span></span></span></div>
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morning session of Day 52 of the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Friday 26th
September 2014, Neil Cameron QC continues his cross examination of Mr David
Alexander, Regional Managing Director for First Bus on behalf of the Applicant
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Trolleybus Public Enquiry, Friday 26th September 2014, Neil Cameron QC
concludes his cross examination of Mr David Alexander, Regional Managing
Director for First Bus on behalf of the Applicant for the TWO, NGT.<span class="yiv1632284303"> </span>The Inspector then has some questions of his
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September 2014, Gregory Jones QC re-examines Mr David Alexander, Regional
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Yorkshire Transport Authority meeting on 26th September 2014.</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><span style="color: black;">Clause 2.8 </span></u><span style="color: black;">refers to "previous consultations having shown
support for NGT" but this "consultation" was for a very
different scheme at a very different time. The current plans have minimal
support from residents and small businesses along both the northern and
southern sectors of the route.<b> In fact
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">Clause 2.13 indicates that the Promoters’ witnesses have claimed that
the scheme meets its objectives and that there is a strong Policy fit. <b>It does not mention that these claims have
been very strongly disputed by objectors</b> – <b>who have pointed out that <u>the proposers’ own analysis</u> indicates
that introduction of NGT would bring increases in greenhouse gas emissions,
road casualties, average waiting times, car miles driven and car journey times,
together with reductions in use of active modes and of rail.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">Clause 2.13 also states that the Proposers’ witnesses have claimed that
the business case is strong.<b> However, it
does not alert you to the fact that the revenue forecasts have been shown to be
dependent on an assumption that people will be willing to pay more to travel on
a trolleybus than to travel on a conventional bus or on a train. This
assumption has been made despite the fact that surveys in Leeds in 2009 showed
that there was no willingness to pay more to travel on a trolleybus.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">Appendix 1 states that typical journey times will be faster by NGT <b>but does not point out that this relates
only to the in-vehicle part of the journey; given the expected increases in
average walking and waiting times, many journeys will take longer
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for its users.<b> However during the Public
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seating has been found to be a major concern of public transport passengers.</b></span><b></b></span></span></div>
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travel on trolleybus vehicles as a fact.</b></span></span></span></div>
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along the corridor.<b> However, a very
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values is to be expected.</b></span><b></b></span></span></div>
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DfT encouraged Metro to develop a high quality state of the art bus alternative
after the demise of Supertram. The choice
of a trolley bus was Metro's decision not DfT's. The Inquiry has heard very
strong criticism of the decision to choose an inflexible system which, given
the speed of technological innovation in the bus industry, is likely to become
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">These are all very serious matters of which Mr Haskins seems almost oblivious. The enquiry has been a litany of disasterous revelations for NGT, but neither they nor the Council seem willing to admit the truth that has been elicited over the last few months, and they persist in their delusionary attempt to impose this catastrophe upon Leeds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When this is all buried, the people of Leeds need to be able to examine in close detail who has been responsible, over the last two decades and more, for the profligate expenditure of some £40m on both the failed 'Super' tram and its sequel, the even less viable trolleybus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I think we shall see that certain people feature prominently and we shall all want to know why they have played so loose with the financial resources of our city. If I know one or two of them as well as I think I do, I think we can probably expect a condescending lecture on how trolleybus was the answer to all our problems and they were doing the best for us, despite ignoring our wishes, even when it has been finally seen off as a nightmare scenario and a financial disaster waiting to happen. <b> </b></span></span></div>
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