Originally posted @ 6:36 pm, Sat 18th Oct 2008
The second of two council meetings for the public in my ward this week. And something tells me the attendance might have been higher if the meeting hadn’t been advertised as discussing “strategic regeneration frameworks”.
Oh sure, the public who attended soon got into discussing the issues at stake and making suggestions as to improving neighbourhoods in the future, given we’re planning to do some big projects.
But all the same, good job there was the nous to allow the public to raise any issue they wish in the first part of the meeting.
Unlike a meeting held by South Derbyshire Council in Etwall recently where the public walked out when a Councillor chairing the meeting ruled that they weren’t allowed to hear news on an issue that concerned them. (And even though it was on a matter that might have become the subject of a planning decision, I'm slightly surprised that a way wasn't found to let information be presented without anyone's discretion being fettered.)
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