The two information days -WOW
What can I say? What a fantastic two days! 724 Seatonians came to talk to us, see the developer's plans and make up their minds what they thought about it.
Where do we start with the thanks? Mel, Wendy, James, Sue, Lizzie, Brian and Brian, Margret, Sheila and the girls, Nick, Betty, Anne, Chris, Dave, Penny, Julia, Paul - and everyone else you were absolutely wonderful - what a team.
Our photocopying bill as we kept up the constant stream of information was astronomical but people dug in their pockets and we continued to keep ahead of the game.
Now, we gear ourselves up for the next couple of weeks - a presence at the Seaton Development Trust meeting on the afternoon of Monda 15 January 2007 (2-6pm), just as they had a presence at ours this week. And then the Town Meeting - who would want to miss that, at 7pm.
Next big event after that - the demonstration about the loss of overnight tourism and community facilities outside the holiday village at 11 am on Wednesday 17 January 2007. There are some cracking fancy dress costumes going to be on display there (if you want to know about a cheap one that anyone can wear from stuff they already own, contact me on: axevalleyrocks@yahoo.co.uk).
Then, make sure you get your objections in BEFORE 26 January 2007.
Now, I'm going to have a lie down ....... (but not for long!).
posted by Fighting for East Devon's future @ 9:19 am
3 Comments:
Hi Sandra, It was a pleasure to help you guys.
Many people, when they left were amazed at the amount of hard work put in by everyone and were very apprechiative of it.
Needless to say, the effort will pay off, because they were appaulled at the greed and sheer cheek of the developers in trying to get this planning application accepted and trying to ruin the town for future generations.
I also think it wonderful how the community has pulled together over this. It just shows when there is a common goal what can be done amoungst people.
Where do you all get your energy from? Especially Sandra and James. It was a heart-warming experience to see so many people passionate about trying to do something to stop this disaster. And a privilege to meet so many happy dedicated people trying in their own ways to stand up and say no
Keep the spirits high
It was good to see the Town so united in opposition to this particular proposal. It was also useful to here the cyclists' describing the type of facilities that are run - profitably - elsewhere in the country. I think we now need to consider building on this by setting up a Fund for Seaton to help develop in the way Seaton wants - a visitor's centre, a SUSTRANS terminal, the megamarsh. This might be better done under the auspices of the SDT as its a company already.
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