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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
An Elected Mayor. Requiring charity shops to pay full business rates. Lowering the rent on Market Stalls. Sort the pavements out. "Free Parking" should mean just that, anywhere in the borough. Concentrate inward investment on the town centre not on Whitebirk.
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sorry about the typos
Elected Mayor - wot Lord Britcliffe... He actually covets HBC having one and it being him.
I spent half a day with the Markets Manager Mrs Hall studying the books. If the council cuts rents it will have less income to do other things.
You mean one of those parking tickets I got on week one on Dutton St!! Deep in current Tory thinking is actually car parking charges - devioulsy mind you. HBC holds a covenant on the Arndale Car Park setting parking charges. It is considering selling it back to the Arnddale so they can possibly charge for parking and the Council gets a receipt for the covenant and the Arndale the flack for charging. I am not sure whether David Jones, the manager down at the Arndale would want to chgarge though. Still its not stopping the politcal thinkers thinking it.
Whitebirk will get sunk [Peel Holdings application that is]. Its funny that Blackburn covet Whitebirk and have always been frustrated thats HBC owned because it always could have a severe impact on Blackburn TC but was out of their hands. Now with the regernation partnership deal of course they have a way to have an input for Blackburn, through HBC.
As for concentrating investement. Hyndburn is skint, hasn't a pot to **** in, pardon the french. Its current debts cant be paid off in my lifetime. I'll be dead if they ever get near to paying them off and Im 39!