Thursday, September 22, 2005

Community Plan? Parish Plan?

Apparently there's another meeting about the Swanage & District Community Plan on Saturday 24th (though I believe the thing's now called the Parish Plan, so perhaps that means all the terms of reference for the former can be chucked),

It seems that money has been invested (£45,000) on progressing a 'multi-purpose community centre' which may or may not combine sports and business facilities (but certainly no swimming pool, as many believe).

But how is it that one idea (of the many put forward by the people of Swanage) is being progressed and receiving considerable investment --- when the findings of the consultation process have not even been published yet? There were many ideas, some involviong little or no cost, yet one project has been singled out. Strange.

You can see a first draft of the report on: < http://swanagecommunityplan.blogspot.com/> See link at bottom of right-hand sidebar.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where???

The Postman said...

over there —>

Anonymous said...

Why is final draft taking so long?

The Postman said...

I suppose it would be considered cycnical to say....perhaps because some people just want to get on with their own pet ideas. Although I thought getting the money (which it seems they have started spending) was conditional upon consulting the community - and providing feedback.

Anonymous said...

I do not want to go into any conspiracy theories, but maybe there is someone who would like to go ahead with the project as soon as possible.