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How about:
Young people from our area who are frustrated with their lack of chances.
Young people from our area who get into University.
Young people from our area who do voluntary work.
Young people from our area who have to live as carers.
Young people from our area who are nice people.
Any others?
Good to see Swanage with so many people about. But the toilets on the stone quay were closed. More than one visitor was heard to say: "Last time I come here."
Come on Town Council! Get your act together!
Which way should Swanage go? This question appears on Swanageview from time to time. Here is a little addition.
I was in Essex recently and visited Clacton-on-Sea and Frinton-on-Sea to see what they are like. They are close together geographically but very different. Which would you like Swanage to be like? Clacton has two theatres, numerous amusement arcades and other places of entertainment. It is also very run down and seedy and has a general air of poverty. There are boarded up windows in commercial premises on the seafront and a lot of run down buildings generally.
By contrast Frinton allows no commercial development on the sea front. There are no arcades. It has only one pub and the council is resisting an application to open its first takeaway food outlet. Entertainment appears to be limited to a quiet evening in the war memorial club's members bar. However, it looks very prosperous compared to its neighbour. There are no empty shops in the high street and no sign of tourist tourist tat either. The place looks wealthy.
The general impression I formed was that a town with lots of tourism facilies that should be "vibrant" is dead on its feet but one where the height of excitement is a mug of ovaltine is doing OK. My conclusion was that the less a town does to entertain its visitors the more money the town as a whole makes. Can the "modernising" tendency explain this.
Listening to David Blair's speech I found myself rather confused.
Not only had I used the wrong - politically correct - last name - I think the clone has adopted the last name of Cameron.
He sounded like he loves people on benefits, people from foreign lands who come here to do the jobs we're too lazy to do, and he's going to increase the spending on the NHS even further.
I'm not saying that I beleive him, but what are all the rusty old Tories going to do?
As an aside, much of the Tory media is making something out of Labour being a bunch of Scots.
Cameron - that's a good old english name - isn't it?
I've just been reading the pamphlet for the Purbeck Film Festival and yet again they seem to have an excellent range of films in an excellent array of venues.
In Swanage they are using the Catholic Hall, the Look Out and California Barn, then there's Studland Village Hall, Langton, Worth etc.
What about the Mowlem?
Has anyone else noticed a strange phenomona.
I got round Swanage at over 10 mph today.
It was a joy.
As that's so rare why not give the town a 10mph speed limit?
Yet another planning application for town centre flats with no parking places provided. Where are all these cars going to park?
Look, this Mowlem business... it's a lost cause, why go on whining about it? Carry on as if it wasn't there. Be creative, if you've got a song to sing, sing it; a painting to paint, paint it; a sculpture to sculpt, sculpt it.
But stop bleating about the Mowlem!
Let's have suggestions about what to do in Swanage WITHOUT the Mowlem - look at the Film Festival, they get on without it. Look at the Blues and Folk Festivals, they get on without it. Look at the Carnival, they get on without it. Look at the Jazz Festival, they use only the Committee Room.
So stop whining about the Mowlem, as if it's stopping everybody, it's not!
It's just your excuse not to do what you could do, if you didn't have an excuse!
Further to my request to attend a council meeting in my wheelchair, may I thank Swanage Town Council for arranging the next meeting where I can get to it. It is also an opportunity for anybody else who has limited mobility and can't get up those Town Hall steps, to see what a meeting is like!
SWANAGE TOWN COUNCIL
The next
COUNCIL MEETING
will be held at the
SWANAGE BAY VIEW HOLIDAY PARK, PANORAMA ROAD
on
MONDAY
30th October 2006
at
7.15 p.m.
The Meeting will be preceded by
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION TIME
which will commence
at
7.00 p.m.
Anon please tell us which application you are refering to before this is posted up:
"Yet another planning application for town centre flats with no parking places provided. Where are all these cars going to park?"
Has anyone heard the rumours that the Swanage Bay view complex is up for sale?
Because of the number of complaints received Church Hill won't be altered.
The Council are now considering reversing the High Street from Court Hill to the Library.
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