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Originally Posted by PurpleLass
The point is that by making the alternative point of view available and continuing to stand up for it it creates a balanced site. I've had tons of hassle because of my views on the Panopticon and it drives me mad too but it's no reason to give up. As I've said before there are a few people on here who are bullies and insist that they have the only correct view on some subjects but we all know that is not true.
Please don't give up coming on to the site as I think a lot of us have learnt more about the inner workings of the council because of you than we would have known about without.
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Granted. But nothing gets learnt from people who have a closed mind, fixed agenda and who cant handle others opinion. The threat of cranks doesnt worry me, however I dont want to stir up more. One guy was sectioned under the MHA last year [what was worrying was he wasnt worried by me, just every other councillor]. I caught him outide my house and went to speak to him. And my car has been damaged. 'The Voice of Reason'!!!
Heres a quick rundown on what has happened. cabinet will make the decison. Thats 7 Tories as elected by majority by the people. The Council is the cabinet and the Cabinet is Tory. Labour Councillors ARE NOT the Council, they are the official opposition.
There have been 5 seperate resident meetings to my knowledge and no more. FoAH, Peel & Barnfield Area Council, Huncoat Area Council, Civic Trust and MPA Public Meeting. All the residents there have voted in overwhelmingly in favour. Probably 95:5 if not higher. The no voters are a myth. We knocked on 4000 voters doors and the Panopiticons never came up once. Most strange if you read Accy Web!!!!
Its not local money. Its outside money. FoAH [Thats residents and myself] have done the backbone of work to determine whether it was worth it or not and that work has been taken and is the core of the report. Cabinet itself has done little over 18 months so the debate has been poor/uninformed. The majority of the cabinet are in favour and seeing as PB has seen the Tories slide electorally he has less room for manouevre against cabinet members in favour. PB has used it as a poitical football as well to attack Labour rather than investigate and conclude the best for the people of Hyndburn.
The Pals never used the trenches. They were there in the 40's to stop Jerry landings by plane and for soldiers to train. So I am stold back in 1914 it was Accy Golf Club, you can still see what appears to be the greens for Golf from higher up. There is nothing natural about the type of ecology there, eg the horrible conifer plantation. Decidous woodland and pasture grasses exist at higher altitude only a few hundred yards away. However what is there now is spolit by a grafiti covered shelter and worn monument, all accessed by ad hoc paths which are eroding the site. Some of the early schemes would have removed that shelter.
The cabinet has promised itself to unlock funding for the coppice. We shall see. Funding is there and I would expect it around £300k plus Remade over 5 years. Remade have said No Panopticon no funding. Panopticon and the remade programme strats 2006. They are taking lead from the Regional Park who now have only £600k left from £5m as they have only 18 months to run. The Regional Park £5m was only got on the promise that investment would attract outside visitors money, ie part of a economic regeneration plan and path improvments alone did cut the mustard and hence the £5m bid would have failed.
Anyway it is now the Coppice Project and the Panopticon itself is barely mentioned. I believe public opinion has swung Conservative thinking in favour.Possibly again another reflection of the wider held view of the public rather than the lobbyists who over played their importance and lost ground by narrowing their arguments to their own agenda rather than take on board some of the things said by those in favour.