How should the village interpret this silence and apparant unwillingness to answer questions on the status of this project?

If you are not eager to give us the information we require, then please direct us to a body associated with this project that may be more willing.

Should we contact the builders or the Peak Park directly?

I urge you to disclose the current status of the project that includes financials, projected completion and interior plans along with the details of the interior design firm. This is simple information. A news letter will do.

I am not anti this project, I, like a majority of the village, would just like to be kept updated on a regular basis and in a formal, printed manner.

Please

I think you are missing the point.

The idea of the newsletter is not to keep the village updated with gossip or local news, it is the chosen method of the committee to comunicate news and updates for this, public, project.

The committee has a duty, not just on a moral level, but on a formal level, as representatives of the hall, and more importantly, as guardians of public funds, to communicate regularly on the actuals of the project.

Clear updates on fundraising, spending and design should be issued.

I am asking for an updated news letter, as it was a ‘news letter’ that has been previously used.

We do not want to walk from house to house to collect the information, if, they disclose it.

Please print a clear chart detailing funds in and out, projected deficit, donors names and amounts and projected finish date.
If you are unable to provide sketches or impressions of the interior then please provide a web link to the Interior design firm that will be handling the interior, so that we can gauge what our hall will look by studying their portfolio.
If you are unable to publish the above on this site, then please print one, and put it on public display in the pub.

Trawling through minutes of past meetings is not what we want to do. We want clear information, in one bulletin ; A news letter.

I use this site to make requests for information on the hall, as it is the official portal for the Memorial Hall.

I am not too lazy to go the shop and read the minutes or to ask a committee member if there is anything important I need to know.

Perhaps anyone who thinks a newsletter is needed can volunteer to put it together and deliver it to everyone in Parwich and the surrounding villages.

I urge you to update the village.

Several people are becoming very concerned at the lack of information for this public project.

A clear and detailed news letter is all that is required.

I am sure that once it is published, any concerns will dissipate.

Free flowing information is important in projects such as this. It ensures public buy-in and only acts to increase support and indeed, excitment for the finished product.

We are all looking forward to our new hall.

Thanks

I urge you, in good faith, to answer some of the points raised by Over The Hill in their last post.

There is a considerable appetite in the village for an update on the hall.

A January newsletter, complete with a progress report and a full schedule of costs and incomes would keep all the village optimistic and hopeful about the new hall.

I am not siding with any view point, I just feel that transparency is essential when public funds and projects are concerned. And of course, there has not been a major issue in this regard ( minutes are available in the pub for all to see) However, a simple chart format of the updated financials would ease concerns that some people may hold.

It would also be great to know when the hall will be ready, and what it would like like inside. If only to become excited about, above all else.

Thank you for this blog. It has been a tremendous help to my family in these snowy times.

Thanks

I espied a staunch supporter of the hall the other day looking through the barriers at the framework and saying it looks far too tall and will dominate the area (just like the planners said it would). So I checked the dimensions with the site office plans, and its not too tall by them, but I agree, it is too tall – because there is a storage room above the main hall.

The last newsletter was nearly five months ago in August.

Could we be updated with progress?
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Obvious questions that need to be answered are:

* what is the latest anticipated cost of the project?
* how much has been raised to date? Both financial and value of ‘in-kind’ donations.
* what applications are still outstanding?
* how much is being borrowed to bridge any shortfall?
* what cuts in the original standard of project have been made?
* what will it look like inside?
* What is the scheduled completion date?

We look forward to a constructive response to the above.

I thought I would just share some views regarding the use of pseudonyms on this or any other blog, forum or social protest

I use a pseudonym because I feel it is the only way I can say how I feel, without worrying about who reads it. I feel that I can say what I think, and not worry about what people will say when I bump into them in the pub. I just want to have a voice, and not be put n a ‘this’ or ‘that’ camp if I do, something that would happen if I used my name.

There are others out there, and I have come across them recently, who will not use their name because they fear what will happen if they do. They fear that there might be some sort of ‘reprisal’. Now, I don’t have this fear, and I think that it may be a touch over the top to have it (this is Derbyshire not Harlem!) but, however daft I may think it, there are some who think it to be a very real possibility

I don’t like the idea of ‘banning’ opinions if they don’t conform to a certain criteria, there is something very un-British about it. I advise the committee and village to accept that there will be protest at times, and to allow it to be aired. Banning protest will only divert it, not end it.

I think it is great to have debate and conversation in equal measure. The blog/ committee should encourage it. It will then seem that all views are taken on board and heard, if not agreed with. Maybe there could also be some more opinion polls and so on for future matters, to really get the village involved.

Let the blog be more than a mouth piece for the committee, let it be a true talking shop for the village. It would be agreat asset to have, not many villages can claim to have such a vibrant exchange. (The blog is very well presented, and obviously alot of time goes ito it. Praise is most certainly due)

There are lots of people out there that really want to say something who as yet have not, and they are not political, they just want their say, but at the moment, they dare not, as it will only be met with an ‘official style’ rebuttal or threat of censure.

I am not some kind of spokesperson for any group, I just hear things and feel that I should pass them on on this site, so that we can get back to being a united village.

Thanks