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Forum: General Chat 23-02-2017, 18:46
Replies: 137
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Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Neil, there is absolutely no way you can know what they would have done(anymore that I can), you can guess, you can assume, you can surmise, but you will never really KNOW...and it will never be...
Forum: General Chat 23-02-2017, 18:20
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

You are perfectly right Neil..there are no principles in politics...either local or national.
And it WAS a cut and dried decision...and no amount of consultation was ever going to change...
Forum: General Chat 23-02-2017, 17:50
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Like you I think they have found their principles(and their voice ) a bit late in the day. Certainly too late to do anything about the trees.

It was a cut and dried decision from the outset...the...
Forum: General Chat 21-02-2017, 19:16
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/vote-of-no-convidence-in-hyndburn-borough-council

If anyone is interested in signing this petition over the loss of the two lovely trees that were removed...
Forum: General Chat 18-02-2017, 19:16
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Yes, that was also a truckload of money that could have been better spent...but again another project that was cut and dried regardless of what the residents of the borough felt about it.
The public...
Forum: General Chat 18-02-2017, 18:33
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Well, not necessarily...especially if you haven't got that money to spare...or if you have it earmarked to do something important...like EAT.
Dealing with your front garden is a luxury, not a...
Forum: General Chat 18-02-2017, 15:25
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Most certainly Neil...and even then be prepared for disappointment. Your plans and theirs may not marry up. You might have to commit to spending more than the fifty quid to get your windows and your...
Forum: General Chat 18-02-2017, 14:28
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Things are not going to get better anytime soon, in fact we are likely to see the demise of more shops when the new business rates are applied.
The loss of shops will be detrimental to those who...
Forum: General Chat 18-02-2017, 12:22
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Neil, you will be out of luck...you want it re-paving which suggests that it is already paved. Unfortunately(for you) the person holding the strings of the purse will only pay out if you swap...
Forum: General Chat 18-02-2017, 07:23
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Neil, there are other towns which have thriving markets and busy centres.
Perhaps it would be good for our council to go and look at their model to see how this was achieved.
Alas for Accrington I...
Forum: General Chat 17-02-2017, 20:57
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Yes, and not only are they putting half a million of our quid into this project, but they are also spending 700,000 of our quid on refurbishment of Blackburn road...which, but for this white...
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2017, 20:56
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

I think that they have told the story in a way to make it seem like it was a good deal.
It is only a good deal if it has benefits for the town and from where I stand I can see very few...
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2017, 20:51
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

if the council had to find all the money, then the project would not go ahead.
We could save 1.2 million quid and we would still have two Horse Chestnut trees in front of the Market Hall.
The...
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2017, 19:45
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Now Less, we have to get it right. We are not stumping up 1.5 million quid. We are contributing half a million to the town square and 700,000 for regeneration of Blackburn RD and refurbishment of the...
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2017, 18:41
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Yes Neil, that'll do.
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2017, 14:23
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

I think the tenuous link to the Pals regiment is both dishonest and opportunistic and was attached to this project as a means of deflecting dissent(council members knew that there would BE dissent to...
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2017, 09:11
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

If the money for this project were coming out of the personal funds of our council officials I think perhaps it would be considered far more carefully.
It is very easy to spend money which does not...
Forum: General Chat 14-02-2017, 06:25
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

I am not judging it on day two of the work Neil....I am judging it on the plans for the area.
It will not make one jot of difference to the viability of the town centre. It is top dressing...All for...
Forum: General Chat 13-02-2017, 14:13
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Oh yes and there is an article about some of the misunderstandings about the financing of the Towncentre Heritage Iniative...it seems like the lottery funded THI are putting in 1.5 million quid and...
Forum: General Chat 13-02-2017, 14:01
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Chestnut trees chopped down outside Market Hall - Accrington Observer (http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/gallery/chestnut-trees-chopped-down-outside-12596870)
Here is a link so that you can...
Forum: General Chat 07-02-2017, 21:30
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

So do you think it is worth gambling one and a half million of our money on this project?
The Townscape Heritage Initiative (which is lottery funded) is only stumping up half of the money, but they...
Forum: General Chat 05-02-2017, 17:14
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Well if we had a statue of either of those, it would be something for the dogs to pee against and the pigeons to poop on
Forum: General Chat 05-02-2017, 17:12
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Neil, it sounds like you are a supporter of this project.
I am not!( only because I like to see value for money)
Forum: General Chat 05-02-2017, 17:09
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Yes, Neil I read it, but as said in the previous post it is what you expect to read when the decision is already cut and dried.
The maintenance of the trees over the rest of their lives would(I...
Forum: General Chat 05-02-2017, 17:06
Replies: 137
Views: 138
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.

Oh, yes and if they don't remove these mature trees the disturbance of laying the new flooring could kill them anyway....and they are old trees, really not a suitable species for a town centre...they...
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