David Hammond misrepresents the situation regarding our Animal Welfare Charter (Letters, July 26).
The charter guides Brighton and Hove City Council (or its policy and resources committee) when matters relating to leases or property are decided.
The planning sub-committee is guided by planning law, which is why it could not take into account the moral arguments.
Pressure to change the Animal Welfare Charter is needed at policy and resources, not at the planning sub-committee.
He is realistic when he admits the developers would have won any appeal (all irrelevant now the fish zoo is not going to proceed) but the cost to the city of that appeal would have fallen on the ratepayers.
We have a duty to not incur expenditure recklessly. Of course, the writer lives in Hassocks.
-Councillor Roy Pennington, Labour Regency Ward
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