Futurist Theatre. Tuesday 21st October. What a day this has been, starting at 9.00 a.m. with a phone call from our spy in the enemy camp telling us that an announcement would be made as to who the bidder is for the site followed by a Press Briefing. Flamingo Land.!! However who it is is irrelevant, it is what they are demanding and wanting to do that is important. However, on behalf of all the people who want to keep and restore the building, we had already sent a dossier to the Secretary of State, outlining the miserable history of our Councils actions over the last decade in relation to the whole Campaign. We said that all else had failed and asked if he had some power to put a hold on the proceedings whilst his Ministry investigated our request and our concerns. We were therefore able to put out our own Press Release about this at the same time as the Councils own Press Release and this was picked up immediately by the media. We hope this took a bit of wind out of their sails! Until 9.00 a.m. the Councillors were not aware as to who the bidder is and were told after the Cabinet Meeting at 11.30 a.m.when the Press were also briefed. It has not yet been agreed by a vote in Full Cabinet - the next meeting being 3rd November. They seem to be bending a lot of rules here one way and another. The stock answer to questions posed by the public is It is all in the Constitution, and you can see it on our Website! Fortunately for us we have amongst us wizards at finding out all sorts of things on their Website, and we are all keeping the people informed. In the meantime we are shouting very loudly that a commercial enterprise expects the people of Scarborough to pay for clearing and restabilising the site so they can make money out of their new exciting(?) attraction. The Secretary of State is currently issuing a lot of directives to Councils about keeping the Community involved in developments and making sure they are being listened to. So lets hope we are in with a chance.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:02:10 +0000
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