A councillor is proposing to abolish the parish council that banned him from its property.
Croxley Green parish councillor Robert Ridley had his official email revoked and was banned from contacting fellow councillors or commenting on the council’s social media pages earlier this month.
Now, he has put forward a motion to abolish the council, which will be discussed at a meeting in Croxley Green Village Hall at 7.30pm tonight.
Writing on their Facebook page, the parish council said the motion was a “waste of time and money”.
The Facebook post says a poll to decide would cost more than £5,000 and would not be binding.
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It says: “Cllr Ridley suggests that many of the services carried out by Croxley Green Parish Council could automatically be transferred to Three Rivers District Council. This is simply not the case.
“In 2012 when this issue was debated, a district councillor described it as “nonsensical” that Three Rivers could step in and pick up the cost of the role of the Parish Council as they just do not have the money.”
Cllr Ridley has a history of riling the parish council.
In 2013, he was deemed “pernicious and pestilent” by a fellow councillor and barred from council property and in 2014, he was removed from a council meeting and again, banned from the building.
In 2011, Cllr Ridley was told to “stop acting like a child” after demanding that the council investigate all 39 items on his agenda – an investigation that would have taken 296 hours and cost around £6,000.
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