A quick reminder that there's a meeting tomorrow night - that's Thursday, at 6pm at Booth's Books - about the possibility of a supermarket buying the site of the school. The land is being sold for "retail use", which leaves it nice and vague....
Our town council and PCC are selling us down the river Wye.
Perhaps we should kick out our current council (some of whom have a vested interest in the development) and elect a new council who care about their town a bit more.
This will destroy Hay as we know it. I quote from The Guardian in August this year about a small town in South Wales: Tesco have muscled in and destroyed our community as we know it, he told a local planning hearing in late 2010. "Every venture we have tried in the town centre has been shanghaied by this organisation. Footfall has fallen and nobody can truthfully say Tesco has brought shoppers into the town centre. It has taken 100 years to build our community. It doesn't take long to throw that all away." Remember: Tesco sells at least 1,350 items. These will include everything and more that every small shop in Hay relies on to stay in business. It will affect our grocers, green grocers, butchers, chemists, bookshops, clothes shops, records/music, electrical, hardware etc. etc.
I recommend that everyone who is interested immediatelely joins Hay & District Community and Sports association and vote out the current chairman who is very much driving this scheme. The £1 mil will be paid directly to this association - it has yet to be clarified whether it will go towards a sports hall. If anyone knows the joining details of the H&DCSA please post them on this site. Just like Gaufron Developments, H&DCSA is seems to lack any workable contact detail.
I'd like to print these contributions in Hay-on-Wire, before December, but I can't just lift them from Lesley's blog and remain 'honest' about things. I'd be delighted if you also e-mailed them to me for inclusion, so those who are local but don't follow things online also get a chance to see them. Self-attribution would be a help, but I'll take anonymous contributions, also. Whoever signs or does not sign, the 'interested parties' will all get to see all the results.
The Hay Sports and Community Association is a limited company so unfortunately you can't just join and vote out the current chairman (Morelli) and his cohorts. In case you didn't know, the directors happen to be:
Mr Leon Kenneth Morelli Mr Robert Golesworthy Ms Mary Lesley Fellowes Mr Paul Bennett Elkington Mr Alan Jenkins
Our town council and PCC are selling us down the river Wye.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we should kick out our current council (some of whom have a vested interest in the development) and elect a new council who care about their town a bit more.
This will destroy Hay as we know it.
ReplyDeleteI quote from The Guardian in August this year about a small town in South Wales:
Tesco have muscled in and destroyed our community as we know it,
he told a local planning hearing in late 2010.
"Every venture we have tried in the town centre has been
shanghaied by this organisation. Footfall has fallen and nobody
can truthfully say Tesco has brought shoppers into the town centre.
It has taken 100 years to build our community.
It doesn't take long to throw that all away."
Remember: Tesco sells at least 1,350 items.
These will include everything and more that every
small shop in Hay relies on to stay in business.
It will affect our grocers, green grocers, butchers,
chemists, bookshops, clothes shops, records/music, electrical, hardware etc. etc.
I recommend that everyone who is interested immediatelely joins Hay & District Community and Sports association and vote out the current chairman who is very much driving this scheme. The £1 mil will be paid directly to this association - it has yet to be clarified whether it will go towards a sports hall. If anyone knows the joining details of the H&DCSA please post them on this site. Just like Gaufron Developments, H&DCSA is seems to lack any workable contact detail.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to print these contributions in Hay-on-Wire, before December, but I can't just lift them from Lesley's blog and remain 'honest' about things. I'd be delighted if you also e-mailed them to me for inclusion, so those who are local but don't follow things online also get a chance to see them. Self-attribution would be a help, but I'll take anonymous contributions, also. Whoever signs or does not sign, the 'interested parties' will all get to see all the results.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
Paul,
editor@hay-wire.org
The Hay Sports and Community Association is a limited company so unfortunately you can't just join and vote out the current chairman (Morelli) and his cohorts. In case you didn't know, the directors happen to be:
ReplyDeleteMr Leon Kenneth Morelli
Mr Robert Golesworthy
Ms Mary Lesley Fellowes
Mr Paul Bennett Elkington
Mr Alan Jenkins
Conflict of interest anyone????