Wednesday, January 19, 2005
The Day of the Protest
The Day of the Protest
Despite a cold wind, a very encouraging crowd of people turned out to protest at Council plans to site a "super school" on Temple Memorial Park and the event was recorded by the local media.
I got to meet the representatives from Friends of the Earth, Mr. Colin Campbell (a local property developer), Mr. Stephen Pattison (protest organiser), Cllr. Jimmy Capstick (ward Councillor), and former Councillor and colleague Stan Smith. In total there were about 70 people protesting, in weather like today's I would say that it was a very good turn out. Bearing in mind that most Councillors are elected by a very small proportion of voters in their wards, and that it is generally difficult to get people motivated enough to get off their backsides, then you would have to say that this crowd really does begin to represent the depth of feeling in this town about this controversial issue.
I have invited a number of them to make use of Curly's Corner Shop Message Board as a forum, a meeting place, where they can get together and discuss tactics on how to move the issue forward and influence the Council to seek another solution to it's educational needs. I look forward to seeing them on the board.
Council Cabinet meets today, and it is to be hoped that they defer any decision on referring the preferred option to the full Council pending further investigations to the suitability of the site (environmentally), local feelings, and alternative options.
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Despite a cold wind, a very encouraging crowd of people turned out to protest at Council plans to site a "super school" on Temple Memorial Park and the event was recorded by the local media.
I got to meet the representatives from Friends of the Earth, Mr. Colin Campbell (a local property developer), Mr. Stephen Pattison (protest organiser), Cllr. Jimmy Capstick (ward Councillor), and former Councillor and colleague Stan Smith. In total there were about 70 people protesting, in weather like today's I would say that it was a very good turn out. Bearing in mind that most Councillors are elected by a very small proportion of voters in their wards, and that it is generally difficult to get people motivated enough to get off their backsides, then you would have to say that this crowd really does begin to represent the depth of feeling in this town about this controversial issue.
I have invited a number of them to make use of Curly's Corner Shop Message Board as a forum, a meeting place, where they can get together and discuss tactics on how to move the issue forward and influence the Council to seek another solution to it's educational needs. I look forward to seeing them on the board.
Council Cabinet meets today, and it is to be hoped that they defer any decision on referring the preferred option to the full Council pending further investigations to the suitability of the site (environmentally), local feelings, and alternative options.
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