Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

I don't ever remember saying that it isn't ludicrous or that the intention was to move them out of the town centre. I have said that it isn't ideal and that the intention was to move them away from the Market Hall.

You make comments and expect answers yet when you get them you don't read them so post more comments.

No wonder your post count is so high.

Go figure.

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

Where?

Can you name all the surrounding towns, where you have to pay to sit on a bench?

Could you please list them, so as I can avoid them, when I'm shopping in places other than Accrington, as I now do.

Thanks.

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

But there has been no satisfactory answer as to what has be achieved.

Firstly by removing the benches, and then, at some unspecified time in the future, putting them back.

I'm sure we'd all love to figure that.

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (have taken over the Asylum) - YouTube

:mad:

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

...and who made the decision, as no one has actually said, so far.

Almost like it's veiled in secrecy.

Who was it?

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

There are some comfortable seats just inside the Halifax on Union St.I was sitting on one on Monday when an elderly lady sat beside me and inquired as to who I was waiting to see.

I replied know one and explained that I had just come in for a rest and to shelter from the cold.:p
She looked back aghast and in amazement.:eek:

All was going well till my daughter chirped in with.

"Ignore the old fool he's waiting for me":mad:

'Twas then It dawned on me that this could be the solution to the bench problem.

They do that little bit Xtra.:D:D

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

I'm sure for some this is no big issue, and a fuss about nothing.

For me, it isn't.

They are on the route we take when we shop in Acrington.

On at least hald a dozen occasions I've been happy to sit there. Having needed to rest, or being unable to walk. It's more comfortable to sit, than it is to lean against a wall, when this happens.

I've honestly never sat there with drinkers. It's usually chatty old ladies, who want a natter, in my experience.

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

Is the no alcohol zone, or whatever its called, still enforceable in the town centre or are the signs just meaningless and not enforceable like many other sign HBC use to try and make people be good?

If they are enforceable why are no arrests made?

Why are the police not arresting these drunk people under the laws they already have instead of ignoring the issue?

Sorry to be asking you the questions as its not your area but your the only councillor taking part in this thread at the moment.

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

That's easy for most folks to figure out.

Many questions are answered with totally unsatisfactory replies...or are met with deafening silence.

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

Post, like penis envy, has never really been a great concern for me.

Though I do try and be sympathetic to those it is a worry for.

Like everyone else, if I think something needs saying, I'll say it.

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

Thats called passing the buck to me Ken,:rolleyes: everyones aware its the polices job, using cutbacks as n excuse "Not" to do there job is pathetic in my view, or are the council in too cosy a position wi em to apply pressure?

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

Looks like you won't get an answer to this one either. :rolleyes:

He's a great side-stepper is Mr Moss - all this " they will be going back at some stage" - but always no specifics. Perhaps he's practising for the next General Election - I wonder if he can see his reflection in the screen as he's writing and is smiling too;):D

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

There have always been drunks of course....

Visited the village of Heptonstall last year, in a corner they had the original "Lock-up" where in the past the village drunks got deposited until sober. It was constructed out of brick was only a few meters square and had only a door - no windows or facilitiesand looked pretty damp and dirty. I expect it worked for most after one or two visits....:rolleyes:

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

In fairness as Neil said he is the only one attempting to answer the question, I can only assume from the answers given I suggest he is only telling us what he has been told and is not directly involved.:rolleyes:

Re: HBC have taken away the benches from outside the market
 

In fact Ken, you could do me a favour, and prevent me wasting another couple of hundred posts.

Have a word with your old mate Graham Jones, and get him to answer the question as to why he said one thing on here, that he has no problem with an E.U. referendum, as it would settle thing democratically, then voted against giving us this right.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ing-59650.html

Thanks.

I'll wait, leaning against this wall, seeing as there are no seats, until you get him to reply.

;)