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Purbeck Environment Action Team (PEAT)http://www.peat-da21.org/
wish everyone in the Purbeck area a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
PEAT is a group of like-minded individuals working towards sustainability in Purbeck. We encourage “living lightly” and sharing the Earth’s resources fairly.
PEAT is a Dorset Agenda 21 (DA21), Community Choices for Sustainable Living (CCSL) group that formed in June 2006. DA21 is an independent charity that works co-operatively with local people, communities, businesses, educational bodies, local government and other organisations to encourage sustainable living in Dorset.
PEAT - is Transitioning for Purbeck. http://www.transitiontowns.org/
What is a Transition Town (or village / city / forest / island)?
It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change?
They begin by forming an initiating group and then adopt the Transition Model with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to kick off a Transition Initiative.
A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:
"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
All new members are very welcome to come along to Green Drinks and meetings. Next meeting is at the Bankes Arms, Studland, where we will be discussing the Core Strategy with Steve Dring.
Please check on the PEAT website ffi.
new topic: grit on the roads
Have many of the roads in Swanage been gritted in this cold weather. Tonight the high street, Victoria Avenue and the sea front had been gritted but roads like Priests Road, Townsend Road, and lots of smaller side streets are just covered in ice and slush.
Please can you post your road or any you have seen which have or havent been gritted as replies and then we can all see where the council are failing to keep the roads safe.
MEETING WITH RICHARD DRAX AT THE CATHOLIC HALL - REMPSTONE ROAD THURSDAY 7TH 7PM -
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CONSERVATIVE SUPPORTER TO ATTEND. PLEASE GO ALONG AND LISTEN AND THEN ASK DEEP SEARCHING QUESTIONS RE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, SECOND HOME TAX, EDUCATION (Purbeck schools review) CAN DCC AFFORD TO BUILD NEW PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND A 21ST STATE OF THE ART PURBECK SCHOOL?, EMPLOYMENT, LOCAL COMMUNITY SERVICES, ENVIRONMENT ISSUES.
LETS HOPE WE ARE NOT ALL SNOWED IN OR TOO BUSY TO ATTEND !
COME ON PEOPLE DO SOMETHING, DON'T WASTE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY.
Would anyone agree that the Coop car park is now no longer big enough to cater for the demand?
Could a second storey be added?
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Swanageview Could Be A Vital Means Of Communication In The Area
A newcomer here to bend (focus)the ears (eyes) of our correspondents again!
It occurs to me that without it's own daily/weekly local rag and no radio station to call it's own, the town and surroundings are out on their own when messages need to be got across at difficult times?
Messages like weather driven cancellations, closures, postponements, news of any vital description. We are on our own, not a mention in the media.
When was the last local newspaper printed in town? Now that is something i hope our more senior residents can enlighten me over.
This website could be the means of vital communication ... yes, no?
Paul.
http://www.purbeck.gov.uk/news/latest_news/council_decisions_summary.aspx
Decisions taken at Council - December 2009
Information Technology – Network and Desktop Infrastructure Refresh
* Council approved the procurement of services, hardware and software systems to refresh and upgrade the Council’s computer network at an estimated cost of £90,000.
* Council gave the go-ahead to purchase hardware and software to upgrade desktop systems at an estimated cost of £45,000.
The total cost of £135,000 is to be funded from capital resources.
* Funding, at an estimated revenue cost of £25,000 pa over 3 years, was approved to take up a licensing agreement with Microsoft to ensure the Council’s core software and operating systems (eg Windows 7, XP etc) are kept up to date.
I would suggest that putting £25K is an under-estimation, helped by the fact that they quote "* Council gave the go-ahead to purchase hardware and software to upgrade desktop systems at an estimated cost of £45,000."
WHY, OH WHY do we keep giving Microsoft are hard earnt Tax Pounds?
Why don't we get in touch with one of the more progressive Linux distributions and get them to provide our software - FOR FREE.
More and more Countries are waking up to the ridiculous amount of money that Microsoft 'earn' from you and I.
Why aren't we?
"... giving Microsoft are hard earnt Tax Pounds?"
are = our - obviously!
Sorry.
Can anyone help Please?
Needed: Rural business units to rent. Between 2,000-4,000 Connected to mains water and electricity.
Businesses so far include:
Art studio/office work space/storage
Green woodworking: workshop and office space x 2
Blacksmith: for forge and hot shoeing
Microbrewery: on site brewery and storage.
Can person wanting above subject started explain what this is about? Are you looking for business units to rent?Where? Contact details? I believe the Purbeck Industrial Estate (tho I may have name wrong) near Triangle Garage, is offering business units to rent.
My thoughts exactly.
Someone can use the Internet well enough to find this blog, but then posts something that makes little sense.
Surely a little more Googling would have provided an answer.
Makes you wonder ........
Wool Releif Road?
I heard from a friend that there is to be a bypass built by Wool now - is this true, and what will be the environmental impact for us?
Alex
"We feel it would be wrong to consult on an option that is costly, both financially and to young people's education, and which defeats the point of the review".
Our Schools are back on the agenda.
http://www.wessexfm.com/news/review.php?article=110508
LIB DEMS WANT EMPTY HOMES BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE
Sorry, it's them who's shouting, not I.
http://www.wessexfm.com/news/review.php?article=110495
Drugs bust leads to Purbeck Hotel loss of licence.
Jon Sibthorpe
Jon sadly passed away on Weds 13th January at home in Swanage.
There is a remembrance book in The Gazette office - please pop in and jot down your comments, memories and stories.
Funeral is at 11.45am at St Mary's Church, Swanage, followed by 'Jon's last gig' at The Red Lion, High Street, Swanage. All welcome.
Casual clothes only - no black please.
ADMIN - Jon Sibthorpe.
Sorry! The funeral is at 11.45am on Thurs Jan 28th.
Could we begin yet another thread for 'Swanage Bay Holiday Park Transition' - (subtitled 'The Never-Ending Story'!) even though I am sure many are growing weary of it? It HAS achieved more posts than any other in the history of SwanageView and is clearly an ongoing topic of discussion for the town.
Thanks.
will start new thread tomorrow.. so takes us into February, otherwise it would be automatically archived into January..
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