We have received a useful summary of all of the extracts from the Parish Council Meeting Minutes that relate to Pump Hill in a single document.
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Pump Hill – summary of related parish council minutes
Wednesday November 19, 2014 by Blog Team
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By Richard T
Pump Hill Two
This is a useful extract to have in one document.
It shows how there has been no discussion of Pump Hill’s broader contribution to the street scene and its setting nor have wiser heads suggested a public meeting to test local opinion. The is no minute about consultation with the community. Our views have not been sought, maybe they are not valued enough.
A public meeting would be sensible for two reasons. First, our broader community may have a view for its future use and ownership contributing ideas. Secondly, this particular parish council has not been elected and three have been co-opted, so arguably they have no mandate.
Finally, as the extract from the minutes suggests, the funds could be used to re-surface the tennis courts.
What next will be sold off?
In his maiden speech to the House of Lords as the Earl of Stockton, Harold Macmillan, the former prime minister, likened the disposal of Government assets by the Thatcher cabinets to “selling off the family silver”. Is that what is happening here?
In a quiet moment, I will put up the contact details of the parish councillors but in the meantime would a poll on the blog be useful? I am well aware this excludes a significant number of households without access to the Internet but it is a useful start.
Richard, I agree with lot of what you have said in your post, above. However, I do suspect that you may be being a touch optimistic, in so far as I doubt of our current PC as it stands, would want to hold a poll. (Which is probably why there has not been one?) In my own experience, our current PC seems to dismiss any valid points and views that do not suit them, contrary to any evidence presented to them. Also, judging from how few parishioners go to the PC meetings (often only 2 or 3 parishioners) would they bother to vote? I suspect that many would feel that their vote would not count for much which would also explain why the PC meetings are so poorly attended. Still, it would be nice to at least be given the opportunity to cast a vote.
Note: In response to Richard T’s comment, the Blog will not publish any individual’s contact details without their prior consent, unless we are reproducing material already in the public forum.
In the past I have had the need to contact people on the parish council and in certain circumstances it has been virtually impossible to get the contact telephone numbers for those individuals. It would be helpfull if all the parish councillours would agree to having thier contact details on Parwich.org.
The parish council members should not be anonymous.They are elected members of part of our democratic governmental system. Parishioners must be able to contact individual members and thus their contact details should be freely available. These details should not only be online but also on the village noticeboard (for those members of the community without access to the internet)
This is necessary because the public expect a PC member to raise at PC meetings items of concern that have been bought to their notice.
The names, addresses and contact details of the parish councillors used to be on the noticeboard. Now they are not even on the “Council” section of this blog with the other local government contact details. I always thought it was a requirement to have the local parish councillors contact details available for the parishioners they were there to represent, obviously I am wrong.
I have just looked up both Brassington and Winster and found the contact details for their parish councillors very easily.
I have no personal connection with any member of the Parish Council, but it is not hard to detect an undercurrent of hostility towards the PC in these posts. There is at least one highly personal grievance at work in this matter (rightly or wrongly) but it’s pretty ugly in my view to witness a vaguely mob-mentality. Those who are perennially critical of the PC ought either to stand for election and serve, or else be more constructively involved in their local governance. It’s all too easy to snipe from the sidelines.
A few contact details need to be fixed, apparently, but to imply some secret conspiracy, run by some furtive Parish Council with an agenda to the detriment of Parwich, is absurd.
Terry, Fiona, the names, addresses and telephone numbers of Parwich parish councillors are now on the Memorial Hall notice board but not on the village notice board on The Green nor on Parwich.org
I hope that helps.