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« Reply #30 on: 25 October, 2009, 10:53:21 AM » |
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To be fair I think the Parish Council has already said to the Borough Council they don't agree with the need for the scheme. However, I think the Borough Council are insisting.
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« Reply #31 on: 25 October, 2009, 04:45:31 PM » |
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At the last meeting we were all told that the BC had identified a possible need for numbering of Barroway Drove and had asked the PC what they thought of he idea. The PC had said that they thought people would dislike it and that therefore they recommended it be abandoned. The BC then returned to the PC and said that the 'need' was 'being driven by the emergency services', (which contradicts their original statement that THEY had 'identified a need').
The PC then said that perhaps the idea ought to proceed after all.
It seems to me that the BC has decided it wants to do this, and will go on asking the PC until it receives the answer it wants ('yes'), whereupon it can point to this opinion from the PC and claim that it is executing this project with the democratic approval of the residents, (as 'represented' by the PC).
The fact that the PC had previously declined the idea is then conveniently lost in time and never acknowledged.
Typical BCKLWN behaviour in fact, after all, it is exactly what they did to Downham Town Council to force them to have a taxi rank outside Barclay's bank, even though virtually all the 'taxis' in DM are actually Private Hire vehicles, which are forbidden to use a taxi rank.
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« Reply #32 on: 12 July, 2010, 02:04:15 PM » |
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Hmmmmm! I had a chat with a lady from BCKLWN about this today.
She said that they had 'identified a need' to number Barroway Drove because of the building of new properties which was 'causing problems' with regard to identifying them.
Therefore, according to her, they approached the Parish Council who, she said, agreed to the imposition of a numbering scheme, as well as a change of road name.
Anyone who attended the presentations will recall that we were all told that the PC had said that they did not want a numbering scheme or for the road name to be changed, but that the BC had told them that this was 'being driven by the emergency services'.
The lady to whom I spoke today said that the emergency services can sometimes make requests for numbering but that the approach to the BC could only be actioned if it came from the PC, and that there had not been any representation made by the emergency services with regard to Barroway Drove.
Mind you, she also said that she thought 'Main Road' was a perfectly acceptable name for a rural village road, citing Burnham Market as having a road of that name, (which, according to Google Maps & Bing Maps, it does not).
She also said that the 'consultation period' is drawing to a close, so if anyone wants to make any comments on the way this matter has been handled, or on the unimaginative choice of road names, you need to register them now, (in writing), with the BCKLWN and ideally with the PC.
It would be a lot better if the BCKLWN could actually tell people the truth of course.
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« Reply #33 on: 15 August, 2010, 02:51:31 PM » |
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In light of the fact that the new government are making cutbacks to all but the most essential services (including public spaces and school buildings) to save money, couldn't they have extended it the departments issuing pointless house numbering schemes which no one wants?
Just a thought....
And the house numbers aren't even sequential because of the large gaps inbetween so the pizza delivery man is still going to have trouble finding us....
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« Reply #34 on: 17 August, 2010, 01:50:57 PM » |
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I agree totally!
It is almost as if the more that people dislike a scheme the more money the BCKLWN will throw at it to force it through!
It will be the usual, half-arsed job, with huge gaps between property numbers in Barroway Drove, and no numbers whatsoever in Lady Drove.
Congratulations BCKLWN, another job well done! (Buffoons!).
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« Reply #35 on: 24 August, 2010, 03:48:02 PM » |
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Letters have started arriving from the Royal Mail to notify us of the change of address. Very cleverly they have addressed them with the house numbers and no names, therefore the postman didn't have a clue where they had to be delivered.........  The principle of 7 Pees applies! |
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« Reply #36 on: 24 August, 2010, 04:13:18 PM » |
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Hilarious. Surely in this period of high unemployment they could find someone with an ounce of intelligence to do the job properly...
What's 7 pees?
I had another thought last week. There is no mention on the letter of any obligation to display your house number alongside the house name. Therefore if no one bothers to display their number, doesn't the whole numbering system become obsolete?
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« Reply #37 on: 24 August, 2010, 05:08:58 PM » |
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Maybe everyone should return these letters marked 'Return to sender... no such address!'
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« Reply #38 on: 24 August, 2010, 06:14:10 PM » |
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Hilarious. Surely in this period of high unemployment they could find someone with an ounce of intelligence to do the job properly...
What's 7 pees?
I had another thought last week. There is no mention on the letter of any obligation to display your house number alongside the house name. Therefore if no one bothers to display their number, doesn't the whole numbering system become obsolete?
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« Reply #39 on: 24 August, 2010, 06:27:48 PM » |
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Are we actually going to get a road sign stating the new name of the road? If not, there is no point in displaying the number.
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« Reply #40 on: 25 August, 2010, 01:55:01 PM » |
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That'll be interesting too.... At the Nordelph end the road is call 'Barroway Drove Road' (Nordelph), and should only become 'The Drove' (I still cannot get over how unimaginative that is!) when it enters Barroway Drove, (where the village name sign is... the same sign you in the rolling gallery on the homepage of this site). As the road name changes at this point it suggests that there will need to be two different road name signs placed at that point, one saying 'Barroway Drove Road' for the Nordelph part, and one saying 'The Drove' for the Barroway Drove part, (three, if you include one at the actual junction with the A1122). Perhaps, if people living in Barroway Drove ('The Drove') still feel unhappy about the way they have been treated by the BCKLWN & the parish council it is time to let our MP know. Contact details are on her website: http://www.elizabethtruss.com/ |
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« Reply #41 on: 25 August, 2010, 01:55:55 PM » |
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Major address change officer- what, do they have a whole army of these people?
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« Reply #42 on: 25 August, 2010, 09:32:06 PM » |
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Oldest trick in the book... give someone a fancy job title, one that suggests they are in a position of authority and they will:
1. Be quite happy with very low pay.
2. Execute, with enthusiasm any and every pointless task given to them, increasing in enthusiasm with the more people they upset in the process.
Otherwise known as 'jobsworths' (a phrase invented by BBC's 'That's Life!' I believe.
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