In his their words. Ed
This proposal from the Conservatives is flimsy political theatre. It lacks genuine detail, with just vague nods towards housing and the environment.
The decline in Newport’s retailing high street, alongside the vibrancy of the many side street independent businesses has been obvious for years. As the ruling group, the Conservatives could have started dealing with these issues years ago.
Plans will have the opposite effect
Instead, their proposals would accelerate the decline of our county town’s retailing.
And by using the Government’s controversial new planning laws, they risk creating housing of a minimal standard with the public getting very little chance to have their say.
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From Bob Blezzard, Sandown: Several months ago, in a virtual meeting with the MP, I raised the issue of the 2021 local elections and asked what measures were being planned in order to safeguard the public in the event of a second spike of the Covid-19 virus. I suggested that one option would be to consider all postal voting. Mr Seely was dismissive of the idea of a second spike and went on to give a lecture about how much worse the flu pandemic of 1919 was. I suspect that if we spoke now the rhetoric would be somewhat different. The government has said that this year’s elections will take place on May 6 although I am not ruling out the possibility of a delay.
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