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Give us back our Roller Rink, Adur District Council, your cover’s blown…and hands off our lease!
Adur Council (ADC) conceived the Fishersgate Dome. It chose the design. ADC coerced members of the Fishersgate Community Association into become legally liable Trustees for a major construction project without giving them proper legal advice on their obligations or support in carrying out their responsibilities. ADC chose the developer (without tender). ADC managed the project condemned by the independent surveyor as “the worst piece of construction he has seen in 30 years experience”.
The Usual Suspects…and where was Neighbourhood Watch…
Dangerous behaviour should be looked at from two angles. One is that of those looking to prevent folk harming themselves: traffic lights for foods, gruesome adverts for smokers, shock horror video warnings for drink drivers. Do they work? Should we try? Because from the second angle, we are responsible for our own actions, and it’s our choice if we go to hell in a handcart.
Birth of the New
We are fast approaching a decision by the Primary Care Trust on the new health care model for our area. During the Consultation, great emphasis was given to the question of A&E and the need to maintain it on all sites. But arguably the most sensitive area of all, Maternity and Neo-Natal services, has scarcely been discussed.
‘Parking’ Parkin clamps your style.
The appropriately labelled Neil Parkin (Nil-by-Car), fulminates against the ‘parkin’ anarchy’ that has reduced our little town to motoring mob rule and rolling gridlock. Aah diddums, West Sussex County Council (Tory) won’t let Adur Council (Tory) get its sticky fingers on the fines bonanza, the ill-gotten swag from coshing the local motorist. &%2
Stop Thief! Mr 12% has run off with our democracy…
We left the windows open and the back door unlocked. While we were asleep, they ran off with our democracy. Powerless and disenfranchised, we watch ‘our’ Tory councillors - supported by just 12% of the electorate - decide local issues by themselves, without check or balance.