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Well if this small sample is anything to go off, it looks like three quarters of Hyndburn residents never received a form asking for their opinions.
 
Been thinking about this and was wondering if we threw it away thinking it was junk mail. Maybe if we had been imformed about the forms or the envelopes were more clearly marked we would have taken more notice and filled them in!!!
 
Been thinking about this and was wondering if we threw it away thinking it was junk mail. Maybe if we had been imformed about the forms or the envelopes were more clearly marked we would have taken more notice and filled them in!!!

I'm quite hot on putting junk mail straight into the recycling sack.

From memory this didn't look like that, it looked offical, and certainly caught my attention.
 
Have just spoken to me brother who lives about 400 yards further down on the estate I live on at Clayton.. he says didn't get this either and, believe me, he is very thorough and would not have chucked any mail away before inspection.

Have asked him to put his mark on the poll, as he is a member.
 
Me again .. just had a reply from Nick Collingridge :-

"Hi Kate
They were delivered in Clayton and a copy was in the Observer.
Sorry you didnt get a copy if you let me have your post code and the post code of the other people Ill find out why you didnt get them and see if your comments can be included in the survey.
Regards Nick"

Guess gonna' be quite a job to collect the postcodes of everyone who didn't get a copy !
 
I'm quite hot on putting junk mail straight into the recycling sack.

From memory this didn't look like that, it looked offical, and certainly caught my attention.
Well that puts a different light on it, if it looked official I would have looked at it.
 
Its accually surprises me that Newshound Rindi didn't see the one in the Obs:D

I also saw the one that came through my door, though that seems to have been very selective as to which of us residents in Hyndburn received one.

How were they distributed, and why did so many people not get them, is more the question?
 
Its accually surprises me that Newshound Rindi didn't see the one in the Obs:D


Are you suggesting that residents who aren't lucky enough to receive offical corresondence from the council, should have to buy the Observer, so they don't miss out on important information?

The whole thing shouts of being a shambles...and is what I've come to expect.

Party in a brewery springs to mind.:(
 
Are you suggesting that residents who aren't lucky enough to receive offical corresondence from the council, should have to buy the Observer, so they don't miss out on important information?

The whole thing shouts of being a shambles...and is what I've come to expect.

Party in a brewery springs to mind.:(
If you keep believing Graham Joneses hype you'll be as daft as he is:D
 
If you keep believing Graham Joneses hype you'll be as daft as he is:D

I don't deal in hype, just facts.

The fact is that three quarters of residents, according to this small cross-section of people, apparently didn't receive a form they should have.

That is wrong.

Fact.
 
Have any of you other than katex contacted your local councillor or HBC directly over this issue? To enquire why you may have not received a letter?
 
Have any of you other than katex contacted your local councillor or HBC directly over this issue? To enquire why you may have not received a letter?

Closing the stable door, after the horse has bolted.

What's the point, as in the very first post of this thread it is reported that the closing date has come and gone, and the matter is now under consideration, with the help of the returned feedback.

If I hadn't been lucky enough to be one of the few to receive a form, you can be sure I'd be calling the council, to ask why the hell my views weren't important enough to warrant me getting the chance to give my views, because I hadn't received one.
 
I'm sure if its still under consideration then anybody can get in contact with their councillor and let their view be known.

Of course I'm not defending the fact that it appears people haven't received them. I don't know if they were hand delivered to the whole borough, sent through the mail or what. If the reason is with the council, then I will condemn it, but as yet I don't think we actually have a reason.
 
I'm sure if its still under consideration then anybody can get in contact with their councillor and let their view be known.

...and how would they know to do that, if they haven't received a letter, or read the Observer, which not everyone in the borough does?

As stated earlier, the letter did come from the council, headed paper, crest, the lot, so condemn away.
 
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