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Crazypaving
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 14:50:43
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| So, at last the developers and Arun District Council have come out of the stinking woodwork! At the forthcoming parish council meeting to be held at Worthing Rugby Club on Monday coming the developers and ADC will present their master plan for Roundstone Lane. The public are allowed to attend and listen but are prohibited from speaking!! Whatever happened to democracy? Hopefully members of the public will attend and shout and scream at them and disrupt the presentation. We all know it is already a done deal but how arrogant and dismissive of us are our elected councillors. Interesting a few parish councillors expressed their dismay that the developers etc are allowed to proceed in this manner but were overruled by the majority! All this does is tick a box that the developers need to do to prove there was a public consultation! The fact that the public are not even allowed to speak or question them or ADC is ludicrous. The developers and ADC will have then supposedly be seen to fulfil their obligation of having a "public" consultation. Do these parish councillors also have a secret agenda? Can they explain to me what their reasons are for allowing the developers and ADC charlatans to ride roughshod over us. Mr Bicknell for one surely has a lot to answer for. What an absolute disgrace! Does anybody at all care about this complete farce? |
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neil
Forum Owner / Moderator
United Kingdom
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Crazypaving
Average Member
United Kingdom
51 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 18:22:19
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| I rest my case! |
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luckyduck
Moderator
United Kingdom
169 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 19:09:25
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| Maybe attendance at the special parich council meeting on Friday, might enlighten us as to which parish councillors have issued this invite, maybe not all the parish councillors are aware of this invite, as there is so much secrecy in the council. Interestingly Mr Bicknell is one of those who has called for the special council meeting, so maybe he is as much in the dark as we are - just being generous in my thinking!! |
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neil
Forum Owner / Moderator
United Kingdom
2623 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 19:41:24
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Looking at the list of councillors on the APC website just now, I see that one has disappeared since last week - Cllr Bliss. Has he resigned in advance of Friday's Extraordinary Meeting? Will we ever know the real reason?
Is this not fairly important public information that should be put on APC's News page or are they embarrassed about it. I feel that we should know who our representatives are at all times.
So, the councillors who called the meeting are now in a majority! |
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Crazypaving
Average Member
United Kingdom
51 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 20:27:18
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Cllr Biss resigned yesterday. Most if not all (don't know for sure) the councillors who called for the extraordinary meeting on Friday voted for the developers and ADC to present their Master Plan for the ludicrously entitled "garden city" vision at the parish council meeting Monday.
Why is Cllr Bicknell receiving totally unwarranted praise for supposedly voting against the 18 million houses to be built in Angmering on the Save Angmering village Website?He is far too clever to go against his Tory Gang masters without already knowing the vote would be carried so by voting against the proposed developments he is seen by Angmering residents to be on their side! His paymasters are, after all, ADC! Naive in the extreme, me thinks |
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Paul
Advanced Member
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Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 22:38:55
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I gave up reading the Master Plan when it blandly mentioned Junior Football pitches - ignoring that they vary in size depending on age groups, and repeatedly indicated that it had the consent of Angmering Parish Council. I wonder whether all councillors were aware that they had consented to this.
Curious how Mr Bicknell may be in the dark, but Cllr Bicknell is "far too clever". I'm sure I'd rather have Cllr Bicknell speaking up publicly for Angmering residents and actually voting rather than supposedly voting, than the exaggeration and blatant hate expressed by others. Perhaps they are closer to the inside than I am, and have reason to be worried that cats may be coming out of the bag. |
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luckyduck
Moderator
United Kingdom
169 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 08:40:13
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| Interesting that the focus here is on councillor Bicknell, what about our parish councillors who have been so closely involved in secret planning discussions with ADC - i.e. messrs Mountain, Leverick and Spooner. If we are going to start hitting where it hurts, these guys are as deeply involved, if not more so than Bicknell. |
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Crazypaving
Average Member
United Kingdom
51 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 15:36:20
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Never mind the cats! What about the vipers? The focus here is on Mr Bicknell because he is actively endorsing these developments! He was the AD councillor who got the strategic gap at Roundstone Lane removed!!! Nobody can be more involved in this subterfuge than Mr Bicknell!
Hopefully in the May parish council chairman election you will all get what you deserve and live to regret the consequences. |
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luckyduck
Moderator
United Kingdom
169 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 16:53:07
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| Oh dear - did we touch a raw nerve Crazypaving? Are you related to the cats or the vipers by any chance? It is not just Bicknell, it is all those taking secret decisions. Your original post on this topic asked "Whatever happened to democracy?" - I presume all the secrecy in the parish council is vital to democracy then? |
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derekdainton
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Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 17:05:19
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| Come on Crazy Paving. Tell us who you think would make a good Chairman. Any favourites? |
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Crazypaving
Average Member
United Kingdom
51 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 18:08:07
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I am my own person and no raw nerves have been touched. Just want the truth to get known!
I'm not related to a cat or a viper though I do have a dog!!! Cannot possibly comment on who would make a good Chairman but know that our current chairman practically spends every waking moment trying to make things better for the community at large and he most certainly does not have a hidden agenda or inflated ego! And.... No,,am not related!! Perhaps instead of the perpetual criticism those hiding behind pseudonyms etc on these forums should stand for nomination of the council. They could then influence (or probably not!) decisions. Right now even our elected ADC councillor Cllr Cooper does not even bother to vote for the good of Angmering. |
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derekdainton
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Posted - 08 Jan 2014 : 20:04:52
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| Hang on! Isn't your own moniker a pseudonym? |
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Paul
Advanced Member
319 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2014 : 16:28:01
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quote:
Originally posted by Crazypaving
Perhaps instead of the perpetual criticism those hiding behind pseudonyms etc on these forums should stand for nomination of the council. They could then influence (or probably not!) decisions. Right now even our elected ADC councillor Cllr Cooper does not even bother to vote for the good of Angmering.
So - when are you standing? Or are you continuing to criticise and hide behind Crazypaving? |
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Paul
Advanced Member
319 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2014 : 16:33:18
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quote:
Originally posted by Crazypaving
know that our current chairman practically spends every waking moment trying to make things better for the community at large and he most certainly does not have a hidden agenda or inflated ego!
Is this when he is Chairman of PC, on Board of School Governors, member of Community Land Trust, and isn't he something in Ham Manor? Surprised he gets time to sleep and must be difficult when there is a conflict of interests. But, hey ho, clearly you support him and you are entitled to do so. Just as others may not wish to join your love-fest. |
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Nigel
Senior Member
United Kingdom
238 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2014 : 16:40:53
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Change of Venue and Time.
I notice from the leaflet in the APC office window that tomorrows Extraordinary Parish Council Meeting is now being held at 8pm. in The Community Centre.
Obviously expecting there to be some interest shown. |
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Paul
Advanced Member
319 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2014 : 17:22:07
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| Perhaps Crazypaving has booked a few seats. |
Be careful what you ask for - you just might get it.
The views expressed in this posting are those of the author and must not be taken as representing any commercial, religious, political or other body. |
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seagull
Average Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 Jan 2014 : 18:16:19
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| That is the first time, Crazypaving, that I have heard anyone say a good word about our Parish Chairman. He may work hard, in his own way, but there is a right and a wrong way of doing things. Are you sure you are not related! |
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derekdainton
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Posted - 11 Jan 2014 : 11:19:15
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| At National level, a vote of No Confidence triggers an election. Clearly not in the Mountain Kingdom. That said, be careful what you wish for - better the devil you know ... |
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luckyduck
Moderator
United Kingdom
169 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2014 : 11:41:34
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| Mountain = the epitome of shameless, arrogant and selfish |
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Bert
Advanced Member
484 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2014 : 14:12:58
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He speaks very well of you... |
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Paul
Advanced Member
319 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2014 : 16:10:11
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| Is that in secret meetings? :-) |
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potty
Junior Member
United Kingdom
15 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2014 : 17:17:28
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anagrams:
vainest men out
minor brat
uncaring logic men |
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neil
Forum Owner / Moderator
United Kingdom
2623 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jan 2014 : 19:04:05
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Situation reminds me of a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where King Arthur fights the Black Knight in the forest:
Arthur slices off one of the Black Knight's arms - blood everywhere.
Black Knight: "Tis but a scratch".
Arthur slices other arm off.
Black Knight: "Just a flesh wound"
Arthur slices both of the Black Knight's legs off.
Black Knight: "OK, we'll call it a draw"! |
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luckyduck
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