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@vicks , all i can say is you were lucky. my husband was not so lucky, neither at torbay hospital nor barton surgery. and when i have shared my experience with friends in dawlish they all agree that services, particularly at torbay who failed their inspection last year, are horrendous!
Just about sums up the stupidity of the Council!
There are roads in Exeter where you are permitted to park on the pavement. I have argued for years that it would be better to stop pavement parking everywhere, but allow mounting the pavement to pass a vehicle if there is not enough room to pass on the road. That way there would be no obstruction of the foot path. Why should push chairs and mobility scooters have to go into the road just to pass a ...
As you know, the CAC has no budget and all decisions have to be authorised by the F&GP Committee anyway. Six members of the CAC also sit on the F&GP Committee so there is a 8 duplication of effort with matters being discussed first at CAC and then again at F&GP Committee by mainly the same councillors.
A further small but important point of order is that I understand not all of the councillors present voted for the Manor Gardens option to be rescinded. And if the Lawn option had funding then how come at a recent Finance and General Purposes (F&GP) committee meeting how a playpark on the lawn might be funded was on the agenda? "Members agreed that funding should be secured first as ...
A small but important point of order that may help people put context to the sentence “...the other option was not what those in support of the playpark on the Lawn wanted”. The option of the playpark being on the Manor Park was rescinded by the full Council when it was realised that there would not be any funding available for it to be located there.
The same thought had gone through my mind but I assumed the CAC meeting was quorate otherwise how could it have made any valid recommendation to the full council.
What is a quorum? And did four members meet the requirement?
At the Civic Amenities Committee (CAC) meeting held in June 2016 the report concerning, and recommedation by, the town centre manager concerning there being a playpark on the lawn was on the agenda. The recommendation was that CAC should recommend to full councill that there should be a playpark on the lawn. There were only 4 members of that CAC committee present - Linda Petherick, Lisa ...
Who asked her to do what she did? The Town Council? after all it was the town council that agreed the three questions.(although I believe not all councillors were in favour).