Daily Archives: 3 Jul 2015
Minister says councils should “take back power” from Whitehall
But who will take back power from power-hungry councils!
Beach huts: is this EDDC’s most biased consultation yet?
https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=143273873752
How DO you reduce the negative impact of taking beach huts off people and selling them to the highest bidder? Answers to that question will be interesting!
And what would you rather have – a secret auction for taking them away or an open one? What do you prefer: the rock or the hard place?
And then, with waiting lists being so long they ask people if they would like to be added to them! So that they can justify this by saying they have even longer waiting lists because they proactively asked people who might never have thought of it to join one!
According to the Save the Beach Huts Facebook page this survey is costing upwards of £1000 (plus, of course, officer time, which is never costed).
Does East Devon need a CEO if South Somerset doesn’t?
Thanks to an EDW correspondent for this exchange of views in a local edition of Streetlife: