AT WHAT level do individual councillors have the right to make a decision to override a local public meeting’s unanimous decision that was taken regarding the Normandy Crescent flood fund allocated by Thames Water?
Can the result of the councillor’s decision be taken as an officially agreed council policy without further consultations?
What are the rights of the public in demanding that the decision shall be overturned and the undisputed decision of the meeting be upheld?
The city council has since said that the decision had been made (that the flood fund would be kept by the council for their use) and under no circumstances would it now be altered.
Is this the way a democratic council carries out its business?
W HILLIER
Normandy Crescent, Oxford
A Normandy flood victim
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