Re: Blackburn road - in front of town hall.
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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 flowers or plants or trees for a paved area.
You know how finicky these funders are don't you? It has to be their way or no way! |
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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 cannot, for whatever reason get to the large out of town areas to shop...those who cannot shop online...and there are still a number of people who do not have access to the Internet. Once the shops are gone the Internet companies who supply goods will have the shopper by the short and curlies. |
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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 neighbours windows upgraded to show off the finished project to its best advantage.
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As long as it still costs me less money than it would have cost me to do the work with my own money then I'm still onto a winner
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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 necessity...what would you do, have a fantastic front garden but a roof the leaks every time it rains? However you cut it Neil, this project is one that Accrington could easily live without and it would make little difference to the lives of the people who live here. It is for vanity....it is a show off thing. There are other more important things that could be done with the 1.2 million of our money. Tell the lottery folk to stick their money where monkeys shove their nuts. |
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A vanity project, just like our spanking new bus station, wonder what the next one will be? A McDonalds type arch, as you enter town via Blackburn Road from Church?
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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 not listened to. This seems to be a common thread in both local and national politics. |
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https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio...orough-council
If anyone is interested in signing this petition over the loss of the two lovely trees that were removed from the front of the Market Hall, that link above will take you to the page where you can register your protest. |
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Just read in the LET that Councillor Tony Dobson & other conservative councillors are going to try & get the town square plans stopped tonight at a full council meeting - too little, too late probably & no doubt for their own ends, pity they didn't try harder before the trees were felled to make room for the project
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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 council was not in the least bit interested in what anyone in the borough felt. Their idea of consultation is to ask as few people as possible and then filter out those who gave the 'wrong' responses. |
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Principals will have nothing to do with it and the county election in May everything to do with it. No way the Tories wouldn't have agreed to bringing HLF funding to Accrington centre if they had been in power. Peter spent 11 years working with the Friends of Rhyddings Park to get HLF funding only to turn against the group putting the whole project at risk to keep a few voters happy and attack the Labour party.
It's just politics. He used Labour deselecting Clare Pritchard as a way of attacking the Labour party at a full county council meeting this afternoon. He was praising Clare and how hard she has worked for Hyndburn. |
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