Keith Sansum1
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it appears that the town council don't have a register of interests like that of district unless i have missed it.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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Keith, that was the time before I last stopped posting, do keep up!
Howard, even parish councillors have to complete a Register of Interests and keep it up to date. As far as I know they are all then kept at DDC but some councils choose to put them online also (DDC councillors ones are).
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Howard
They must have,
as at start of all meetings those that want to declare there interests can do so
its an agenda item each meeting
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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I initially thought the concept of public toilets and a shop in the one small block was a rather odd idea...re hygiene and all that sort of thing...but well I never... The very same concept in comfortable and successful operation in Samphire Hoe today sunday.
You learn something new every day.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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and its very good to.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Do we have a Dover volunteer........?
Courtesy BBC News.............
Woman's public toilet closure sit-in protest in Bath ends
Lin Paterson moved into the toilet with a sleeping bag and supplies
Squatter protests in public toilet
Proposal to close public toilets
A 67-year-old woman who staged a sit-in at a public toilet in Bath earmarked for closure has
ended her protest.
Lin Patterson, from Larkhall, moved into the toilet in Twerton on Wednesday night, the day
before it was due to be closed by the council to save money.
But three days after moving her sleeping bag into the loos, she decided to move out on Saturday night.
She said: "Over 2,000 people signed the petition so I think the council knows the strength of feeling now."
In December, the council announced a proposal to sell off or close 13 public toilets in and around Bath.
The authority, which owns 27 public toilets, said the closures could save £120,000 a year.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Oh dear!
What can the matter be
Swarms of visitors
Sup cup after cup of Tea
turn anguished inquisitors
but alas there is nowhere to...
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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On every Council Agenda at DDC and Parish Council level .Usually item 2 Declarations of interest have to be declared.A few months ago we all received training on the new code of conduct .How ever remote the item under discussion may seem its wise to declare the interest .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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slightly different to a register of interests sue which is available on line at the ddc website.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Food for thought....?...Our High Street does strangle beyond sustainability...........
Courtesy Guardian...............
Councils to lose powers over high street planning under government proposal
Minister to suggest allowing shops to be converted into homes without planning permission
Boarded-up shops in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
Town halls face losing significant powers over the future of their high streets under Whitehall plans to
allow shops to be converted into homes without planning permission.
In a move that signifies the widening acceptance that changing shopping habits and the economic
downturn have sent the British high street into rapid retreat, the planning minister, Nick Boles, will
this week propose scrapping existing rules protecting shop units, including banks and building societies,
and allowing them to become housing.
He wants owners to have "permitted development rights" to make the transformation, in the same
way that the government has allowed residents to build extensions of up to eight metres without
applying for planning permission.
Local authorities will be asked to decide which shops should be considered "prime retail frontage"
while the rest could be scrapped. There are around 7,000 empty shops in London alone and last
year one senior retailer, Phil Wrigley, chairman of Majestic wine, admitted the high street was in
"a death spiral".
Boles said: "People's shopping habits are changing very fast as a result of the rise in internet
shopping and changes in lifestyles and working patterns. We need to think creatively about how
to help town centres thrive in this new era. We want to encourage local councils to concentrate
retail activity into the prime shopping streets in the heart of their town centres and adopt a more
relaxed approach to under-used retail frontages."
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Yes Howard we do have to complete a form each year to show whether we own property and whether we have received finacial help say from your political party.At the meeting under item 2 any interest declared by a member will be noted.When my previous neighbour had an alteration to her house that was an interest which if i had been on planning would have been declared.The same when my son had an extension built .I could not sit on a committee where that would have been discussed.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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The declarations are to show that clrs are not seen to have influenced, or have opportunity to influence.
its all about how the public see it.
This fiasco where a senior Cllr who was chair of a committee dealing with the toilets, and making decisions on the amount that would be a subsidy should the venue make a loss
would be seen im sure by the public as a Cllr that had a substantial interest in the tendering outcome.
To report to the press9if correct) she forgot she was manager of the company which was tendering
sends out really worrying signals
Although the town clerk may not be handling herself well
it is for CLLRS to declare an interest.
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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I think Keith that you'll find that she hadn't added herself as a Director of Pebbles on the updated list of directorships that each councillor, I think, fills in at the start of the financial year. At that time Pebbles had not, according to both Directors, decided to tender for the toilets concession. When Pebbles did make a decision to tender, she withdrew herself from the entire council process, realised the earlier omission on the directorship record and rectified it immediately. Sue simply did not have an interest to declare until she acquired one, at which time she declared it. Rather than reading the somewhat skewed emphasis of the story with its selective supporting quotes, pop along to the DTC meeting tomorrow, hear the real story and, hopefully, help get the toilets open for the rest of this season, concession or no concession.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Neil
I would have loved to as it appears there will be a lot said at this meeting
and whilst some wish to support the senior cllrs error f judgement
Im afraid I will be working at the time of the meeting.
Its how the public view this.
not very well I would say
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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interesting wording from neil about coming along to the meeting and hearing the whole story.
that is exactly the case as no questions from the public are allowed.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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agreed howard
but I think the meeting might get a little heated
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