a million pounds of misspent public funds, smoking over the wasteland

Though the story of the great Fishersgate fiasco is still to be told, the outlines and the themes are already visible. Over-arching everything, within Adur District Council, was the glaring lack of an appropriate structure for administering the project, the absence of a framework of standards relevant to major community regeneration, the lack of oversight, lack of scrutiny, the lack of accountability. Apart from that everything was hunky dory. 

Council Watch

  • ‘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

NHS

  • Birth of the New -

    During the PCT Consultation on the new health care model for our area, emphasis was given to the question of A&E…

Opinion

  • Birth of the New -

    During the PCT Consultation on the new health care model for our area, emphasis was given to the question of A&E…

The Bigger Picture

Fishersgate Dome

Adur

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Local Listings

Southwick Barn

What's on at Southwick Barn?
Ropetackle Arts Centre

The Ropetackle Trust has developed a Centre that will provide the people of Adur district access to high quality film, art, music, theatre, education and training oportunities in the arts, film and media. Its brand new multipurpose auditorium has up to 200 seating capacity.

Visit the Ropetackle Arts Centre website
Adur Festival 2008

It’s almost that time of year again. The 2008 Adur Festival kicks off on May 30th. “Adur Festival 2008 brings more community-based arts events than ever. Help celebrate the 21st festival at performances, gigs, exhibitions, workshops, walks, concerts and the many events throughout the district.”

Visit the Adur Festival website

Future Meetings

Conference 2008

This year the Labour Party Conference is being held at the GMEX, Manchester. Poppea Daniel is our delegate to conference this year. Emily will also be attending. To find out more about attending this year’s conference, click here.