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abitmuch
Harris's Factory Worker
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| Chepfer wrote: |
"Abitmuch" from september onwards planning permission will be required to put any driveway on your property (except gravel) i'd get it done sooner rather than later, to avoid the extra costs. |
Thanks for the advice, will get it sorted asap. My Winnibago needs needs to go somewhere!
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custardpoint
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject: Travellers site |
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I commute into bath often and have the pleasure of viewing the "Thingley Junction" travellers site, just outside Chippenham from the train, whilst there is a fence around the site it obviously isn't high enough as their mess extends to the fields adjacent to the site, it's not uncommon to see smashed up vehicles, and general detritus scattered about.
If Calne is to raise its image, a travellers site on it's front door step (Oxford road) is not going to help, how many other towns have that sort of welcome to visitors?. |
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Harris
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Top Dog wrote: | | I feel on this matter we have no choice but to trust that they will try and do there best for the people of Calne. |
After Monday's meeting do you still trust that they will try and do their best for the people of Calne? I still believe your trust is misplaced. The only reason there was the turnout at the meeting was because you put signs up and another member of the public had leaflets made and distributed.
Calne Town Council didn't do their best for the people of Calne on Monday. They didn't represent the electorate over the Union Flag. They haven't served us to date over the Gipsy issue and the signs are they will continue to let us down. If they really wanted to represent us the Union Flag would be flying daily and the Gipsy meeting would have been professionally organised and run so that NWDC were left in no doubt that Calne is not the place to put these sites.
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Top Dog
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Harris Mondays meeting had nothing to do with the Calne council.
That was N.w.d.c Area five..It was N.w.d.c who conducted that meeting.
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Sticky
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Joined: 16 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Harris,
Why not start a separate campaign about the union flag? I have seen a few comments and specifically about one flip flop councillor saying one thing and doing another. (Shock horror)
Lets get a proper campain going so we can gather support and momentum so we force these people to represent us properly!
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Local lass
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there was a petition about the flag but the council didnt take much notice about it.  |
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Harris
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| Top Dog wrote: | Harris Mondays meeting had nothing to do with the Calne council.
That was N.w.d.c Area five..It was N.w.d.c who conducted that meeting. |
Monday’s meeting had everything to do with Calne Town Council. Councillor Hill made a commitment to the Town at the previous meeting. He told us that he would bend over backwards to represent the people of Calne.
NWDC Area Five were holding a meeting on Calne Town Council’s turf. If you were Calne’s Councillors and wanted to bend over backwards to represent the people of Calne would you:
a. Ensure that an appropriate venue was chosen, engage professionals to organise the event, advertise it fully to ensure maximum attendance, prepare for the meeting by arranging key speakers, stage manage on the day by giving a key notes opening speech to bring the public together and have everything tested beforehand to ensure that fundamental aspects (such as the sound system) all worked effectively – thus ensuring that the NWDC Area Five visitors left fully understanding that Calne was not an appropriate choice.
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b. Choose the Town Hall (which wasn’t big enough for the last poorly publicised meeting), change the venue late in the day, rely on members of the public to put up signs to let people know, give no co-ordination to the meeting, use an inappropriate sound system, not be bothered to check beforehand if it works, allow this ineffectual meeting to continue when it clearly could have no impact – thus ensuring that the NWDC Area Five visitors left with the same thoughts they apparently had before they arrived, minded that Calne seems to be the only appropriate choice.
Getting this right would not have been difficult. But they just didn’t do it did they?
| Sticky wrote: | Harris,
Why not start a separate campaign about the union flag? I have seen a few comments and specifically about one flip flop councillor saying one thing and doing another. (Shock horror)
Lets get a proper campain going so we can gather support and momentum so we force these people to represent us properly! |
There has been a campaign running for about 7 months. The Elected Councillors and the Council staff have been constantly getting letters, emails and phonecalls from their electorate during this time and many of the Council meetings have been addressed over this issue by members of the public during the Public Session. It has also made the press a number of times (google Calne flag). Councillors are voting against their electorates wishes because it was initially raised by UKIP’s Councillor Ireland and they don’t like him. Seemingly their dislike of him is more important than representing their electorate. Decisions are made politically rather than for the people and this crooked attitude is reflected right across all the work of the Town Council with only a handful strong enough to keep themselves and their decisions separated from it.
I utterly agree with you – we need to get these people to represent us properly. I wonder if a full scale demonstration outside the Town Hall when they next hold a Council meeting might make them see that we are not prepared to continue putting up with this any longer?
| Local lass wrote: | | there was a petition about the flag but the council didnt take much notice about it. |
Worth taking note…the Council were presented with hundreds of signatures and Councillor’s responses were that the people of Calne would sign anything and probably would not have understood what they were signing anyway. They rubbished petitions (and us with complete arrogance); perhaps it will take the people who signed turning up in person to force them to represent our views? |
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