Community Partnership

An article in The Beach Hut relates to BID (Business Improvement District) for the Paignton area. This article raises many points the least being who in the end pays for it. according to the article it is local businesses but you can bet your life that is not the truth. You the customer will be the ultimate payer, businesses in this area cannot afford to increase their rates by 2%. Thats brings the next question what is the council doing with the current rates and what benefit are businesses getting from those. For example business pays for its own waste to be collected.
Some of the suggestions seem to be good but how many themed markets can you go to before you get bored. the short sightedness of the article needs examining. You need to look at Blackbush Market, Wembley Market, Kempton Market, Portabello Road, Market, Northend Road Market, Middlesex street market before you consider placing a themed market in Paignton. Torquay has those leave them there. We need a regular market maybe 2 twice a week Saturday and Thursday for example.
Where I ask are they planning to park all these coaches that enter Paignton with all these clients. the council nicked the best peice of land for their carbuncle building. All policing for the area is governed and supervised by the Chief Constable of the force and if he feels they would be better off deployed elsewhere believe me he will do it, you are never guaranteed policing. I could go on but I would appeal to businesses to re-examine the benefits of increased business rate, Figures can prove exactly what you want them to prove.

I'm down with that. But are we even allowed to say ENGLISH now??

Well Clarkem you sure do bootem you have added nothing that wasn’t said in the article except that it has now changed from between 1 and 2 percent to 1.5%. The point I was making with regard to rubbish collection is what do we actually get for the rates we pay? If you increase rates do you really think the council will collect these rates for you and your ilk FoC? What will increase footfall in the winter? Are we not basically a seaside town that mainly relies on tourism for income? Do we not need Major attractions to entice holidaymakers return? Do we not need something different or are we that uninventive we have to copy Torquay and Canada? I agree we need some ordinary events such as a market but that will not ensure return holidays? Neither will a child’s adventure playground nor a library. Why not link Paignton sea front (adjacent to Town) with Goodrington possibly with a Road Train, the last of which I believe was made uneconomical to run by our beloved council.

I am unsure of your meaning of dormitory in your text perhaps you could enlighten me the nearest I can get is and I quote ’a resident community from which the inhabitants commute to their places of employment’ I therefore ask where are employees being coached in from and where are they going to?

To sum it up I am getting the impression that because Torquay has it and Canada has it must be good. The USA had neighborhood watch long before we did they have now scrapped it. To go to a further extreme Germany believed in Hitler! Not all that comes from other places is good and as I stated before figures can be made to suit the user I rest my case.

Yes I should go back to the optician the glasses you received obviously are faulty
Bye the way Bootem my user name is nextmayor not new mayor. Ignorance is Bliss!

There is a meeting at The Palace Theatre at 6.30pm this Monday to discuss the above. We all look forward to meeting you in person to hear your views.
ps I've shave off my moustache.