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a million pounds of misspent public funds, smoking over the wasteland
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.
St Mary’s Hall - a matter for the Church?
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?
The Usual Suspects…and where was Neighbourhood Watch…
Posted on May 03 2008
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.
Can it be true? Does Cllr. McKinney really want to pull this down?
Posted on Apr 30 2008
Left to fend for itself against the cruel south westerlies, the former Coastguard Watchtower is in urgent need of a little TLC.
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‘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