Monday 23 February 2015

The Missing Bench, and other Mysteries

I've been watching the workmen install the new green box on the road outside the Cinema Bookshop, which is supposed to give Hay better, faster broadband. To do this, they removed the bench and rubbish bin, which were useful for people walking up from the Gypsy Castle end of town into the centre. They were planning to re-install it underneath Fiona Howard's front window, which she wasn't too happy about - but it's just vanished. The workmen have departed - and no bench or rubbish bin has re-appeared.

Something else which hasn't appeared yet is the questionnaire that the Town Council were planning to deliver all around town, to find out what the people of Hay want for the future. It was supposed to be done last week, if they wanted the grant money for it.

A colleague at work told me that she'd been informed that the parking permit scheme won't be starting on 1st March as planned, either - though when I went to the County Council website I couldn't find any information about it at all. So I don't know what's happened to that. I don't have a car, so it's not something that I get to know about automatically.

And finally, Broad Street will be closed in the evenings from this Saturday. This is the re-surfacing work which was supposed to be done last year, but which was put off. The work is supposed to take a week, working up till 10 o'clock at night every night.

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