Posted on Aug 11 2008
Cllr Arculus might think of adding ‘spinning’ to scuba diving and stained glass amongst her impressive list of hobbies and interests. On Monday August 11, at Quayside Youth Centre, with a neat flick of the hooves, she jumped clear over the pig’s ear that West Sussex County Council is making of the ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity of the South Coast Academies.
Posted on Jun 27 2008
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.
Posted on May 20 2008
Not much fish is landed in Shoreham these days, but the smell of old catches is in the air. Why was St Mary’s Church Hall, uniquely useful to the local community, sold off? How is it possible that the Hall’s Trustees decide on their own to sell a valuable community asset, in secret, to a developer? Was it offered to other bidders?
Posted on May 10 2008
Enough is enough, give us our money and lay off the lease.
Left to fend for itself against the cruel south westerlies, the former Coastguard Watchtower is in urgent need of a little TLC.
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