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Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry Day 70


Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry

Day 70


Wednesday 29th October 2014


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.

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.




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.

 
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.
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.


Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry Day 67


Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry

Day 67




Wednesday 22nd October 2014


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.

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.  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.

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.
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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.























Monday, 13 October 2014

Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry Day 60

Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry

Day 60

 Thursday 9th October 2014

The links to recordings of all the sessions from the day are included here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry Day 39


Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry
Day 39


Here are the links to the audio recordings of Day 39 of the Trolleybus Enquiry.  I think this may have been the longest day in the Enquiry so far, sitting from 9.30 to almost a quarter to six in the evening with only an hour for lunch and two quarter hour tea breaks.

There has been quite a lot of pressure on to get in all the witnesses  who have been timetabled and Day 40, Thursday 24th July 2014 is only scheduled to run until lunchtime so I hope it can all be squeezed in.

I will add a longer commentary later.

Remember that you can help to back up the archive if you download the audio recordings from




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.


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.


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.


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.

Friday, 18 July 2014

Audio Archive Links Index for the Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry 2014


Audio Archive Links Index 
for the 
Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry 2014


I have recently had a request to reformat the titles of the audio uploads so as to make them more easily searchable for those who access them through devices with small screens that have not been able to see the day number in the title on the Mixcloud site.

Consequently I have from today, Day 36 :  18 July 2014 started to write the titles with the day number at the beginning and a letter to denote the session.  Hence, the title of today’s first session is Day 36a  Leeds Trolleybus Public Enquiry 18 July 2014

It would be too large a task to change all the existing titles, if I were to do that I would want to completely re-upload and match the URLs at the same time, so instead I have made up this index list of audio links with the blog posts at the head of them.  I will in time make a parallel index but with blurbs for each day, and will periodically update the list.

I hope this will make the archive more easily searchable. 

Now updated to include all sessions in the first forty days of the Enquiry before the Summer Break.  Links from the institution of the new numbering starting from Day 36a also have blurbs with them
http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/day-36a-leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-18-july-2014-first-morning-session/


Day 1 :  29 April 2014

                

http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-1-april-29-2014-afternoon-session/

 


Day 2 :  30 April  2014


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-early-afternoon-session/


http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-april-30-2014-late-afternoon-session/



Day 3 :  1 May 2014



http://www.mixcloud.com/CosmicClaire/leeds-trolleybus-public-enquiry-day-2-may-1-2014-early-afternoon-session/




Day 4 :  2 May 2014

 




Day 5 :  7 May 2014






Day 6 :  8 May 2014









Day 7 :  9 May 2014





Day 8 :  13 May 2014






Day 9 :  14 May 2014  









Day 10 :  15 May 2014






Day 11 :  16 May 2014






Leeds Trolleybus Enquiry:  What We Are Fighting For



Day 12 :  19 May 2014




Day 13 :  20 May 2014







Day 14 :  21 May 2014







Day 15 :  22 May 2014






Day 16 :  23 May 2014




Edinburgh Tram on R4  31 May 2014


Day 17 :  03 June 2014






Day 18 :  04 June 2014






Day 19 :  05 June 2014






Day 20 :  06 May 2014






Day 21 :  10 June 2014






Day 22 :  11 June 2014






Day 23 :  12 June 2014






Day 24 :  13 June 2014





Day 25 :  17 June 2014 






Day 26 :  18 June 2014






Day 27 :  19 June 2014







Day 28 :  20 June 2014





Day 29 :  24 June 2014






Day 30 :  25 June 2014






Day 31 :  26 June 2014



Day 32 :  27 June 2014





Day 33 :  15 July 2014






Day 34 :  16 July 2014






Day 35 :  17 July 2014





New title listings begin Day 36

Day 36 :  18 July 2014

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.

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.

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.




Day 37 :  21 July 2014: Only Session


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.


Day 38  :  22 July 2014


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.

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.


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.


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.

Day 39  :  23 July 2014



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.


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.


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.


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.

Day 40  :  24 July 2014


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.


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 at 10am on Tuesday 2nd September 2014.