Supermarkets Again

At the October Council meeting there was a lot of discussion about conflict of interests, and how all the town councillors needed to have a blanket legal dispensation before they could even begin to discuss the development plans for the school site and anything else around that subject.
They dutifully sent off all the necessary documentation to the County Council - and nothing has happened yet. So they're still effectively gagged.
The Town Clerk is now going to write to the Chief Executive of the County Council to complain.
In the meantime, since the county council didn't give the dispensation in the time frame they said they would, the town councillors discussed the latest on development anyway. There has been a Plan B meeting with the County Council Cabinet Member for Leisure and Learning. She said that the County Council is aware that Hay is a "jewel in the crown of Wales", and that the County Council would be foolish to spoil this. She said that they would be looking at all options within the next two months.
Steve Like commented that this was all very well, but they haven't invested in Hay for the last thirty years!
Some of the Cabinet members came to visit Hay and look round recently, and although it was a Tuesday afternoon, one of the quietest times, they were surprised at how many people were about.

Plan B will be having a meeting at Hay Castle on 18th December.

Meanwhile, they have done a comparison survey of a shopping basket of goods from supermarkets and from the small shops in Hay - and found that the small shops in Hay came out over £7 cheaper than the supermarkets, before they took travel costs into consideration.
An Explorer bus ticket costs £7 now (I've no idea what the petrol would cost to get to Brecon or Hereford), so if you were going to Brecon or Hereford on the bus to do supermarket shopping, it would cost £14 more than staying in Hay, and take a lot longer, too.
There's a small notice on the door of the Wholefood shop with all the figures on it - I told them they should have printed it three times bigger, at least!