The district Council have been asking for your ideas and input on the development of the area. What our campaigner Jonathan Spencer finds interesting is the way this kind of thing is advertised and promoted. Unless you are politically active or part of the group that always turn up at these things you were probably more aware of the fresh food market going on in Lewes Market Tower. As Jonathan spencer says “most people are more aware of the new food market and more likely to go along and have an opinion than in the deliberately drab excuse for a consultation on some of the most important issues facing our community in 20 years, is it a deliberate ploy by the Lib-Dem council?”
Lewes District Council is preparing the plan that will guide development in the Lewes District Council area for the next 20 years, why not make your views known. HOW? We tried searching on the internet for a way to comment but it is not readily apparent so we have addded a form at the bottom of this article so you can email Peter Gardiner the Lib-Dem councillor in charge of this mess.
LDC has already presented its vision for the district to 2026 at a number of meetings principally, for Lewes, in the Town Hall on Thursday 1st July to an interested audience with many of the usual suspects
The Council’s Vision for the Town of Lewes is something along these lines:
· they will embrace and achieve National Park and Conservation Area objectives,
· beef up its role as the County town
· Essentially they want to make Lewes more desirable (sexy?) and attratcive to people who live here, might want to live here and to the business community.
· ensure affordable housing is provided along with premises to meet modern businesses’ needs
· they dont want the public sector to dominate the town, but see it as important along with tourism
· They want to make more of the towns unique selling points – thats history to you and me, so the the historic areas of the town, including the Castle, the Priory and the historic battlefield, will be highlighted.
So how is all that going to be deliverable in the light of 10-40% cuts being handed out by the Lib-Con government, a government that is going to ensure you and I pay out at the rate of 80:20, thats of the money they think we should be paying to cover the bankers costs, 80% will come from cuts in public services and 20% from increases in taxes.
In addition development in Lewes has gone mad, the South Downs National Park unless it has very long and sharp teeth is not going to stop the destruction of twitten walls, the development of crowded housing in central Lewes (totally out of keeping with its surrounds)…these developments all approved by the Liberals at lewes District Council. And as LDC have done nothing much to protect the historic fabric of our Town the rest of what they desire sounds like PR fantasy.
Really what affordable housing is available now, in an earlier article Labour again asked questions about housing policy in this town.
The attacks on the public sector from the Lib-Con government on everything from the BBC to education and the police have been outrageous. So for LDC to talk about Public services not dominating the town….by the time this plan comes to fruition ther will have been a decimation in the public services as a whole that would have made Norman Tebbit blanche.
The next big issue with all of this is the way LDC gets on with the Tory County Council…we would say not at all. So where does that leave roads, and infrastructure needed to bring more tourism or the development of historic buildings. The County Conservatives are not supportive of Lewes because they no longer have support here, will not introduce 20mph limits in the town, create the second stage of the cycle lane system and they are still threatening to take County Hall to Polegate at great public expense, which also severely effect the Lewes economy.
Anyhow why not tell Peter Gardiner what you think
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