Number of people who can be bothered to take part in Local Development Plan Consultations!!!! - 1.52%

I wrote the letter shown below to the Maidenhead Advertiser and they published it on 4th May 2107.

Subsequently the Advertiser contacted me to ask for details about the FOI request I had made and we discussed the problem.  The problem being that there has been confusion in the terms "Responses" and "Representations" and the fact that RBWM has been accepting of the misconception apparent in the Maidenhead Advertiser's report of 19th January 2017 where they reported that "About 7000 replies were received..."

The Advertiser reported on page 3 of their 11th May 2017 issue as follows;

So, was there an attempt to mislead - there certainly was no attempt by RBWM to correct the misinformation that had got into the public domain.  If their news release had said 7000 representations - it was reported by the Advertiser as 7000 "replies", this being wrong as an indication of the number of people (only 2148 out of a possible 141600) who took an interest in responding.

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