A while back I responded to the public consultation on the provision for Gypsies, travellers and travelling showpeople held by the South East Regional Assembly. Now that the SERA doesn’t exist any more they have sent me the results: it is a substantial packet, with some letters and a thick booklet, all in an envelope […]
Entries Tagged as 'Travellers'
Why the Royal Mail is in trouble
June 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Why the Royal Mail is in trouble · Politics
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Planet Caravan
September 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Planet Caravan · Politics
The South-East England Regional Assembly (SEERA) are currently running a consultation aboutthe provision of new legal campingplaces for gypsies, travellers and travelling showpeople. The consultation is open until November 21st.  Anybody can respond to the consultation either in a private capacity as a resident or in a representative capacity, if appropriate. You don’t even have […]
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Travelling Without Moving
August 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Politics
The local papers have recently been providing a sort of running commentary on the ever-changing location of a group of travellers in Crawley. Or maybe there are a couple of groups: its hard to tell. All I know is that there have been caravans parked somewhere for the last couple of months. Which all reminds […]
Forgotten Ground
July 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
For the last couple of days there has been a group of caravans parked up in the big layby outside the Broadfield Stadium. Is this the group of travellers who have been in town for several weeks now, setting up home in Maidenbower, Three Bridges, Furnace Green, Southgate, etc.? No. I think they are visiting […]
Tags: Crawley Town·Football·Travellers
Tower blocks
September 7th, 2006 · Comments Off on Tower blocks · Politics
A planning application is causing a lot of consternation in town at the moment. It was rejected by the borough council and the rejection was upheld by the Planning Inspectorate but the developers appealed to the Secretary of State and have got their permission after all. I know the location of the application, and although […]
What a load of rubbish
August 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Today and yesterday Charlie and I made several trips to the tip to get rid of the waste from our bathroom re-modelling. When we arrived at the tip in Metcalf Way we discovered that the new tip is open and the old one next door has closed down. The new one is so much better […]
Tags: Crawley·Town Planning·Travellers·WSCC
Crawley election results
May 7th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics
Very belated results, due to my Internet access problems over the last few days but… The full results are on the Crawley Borough Council website, but the highlights are: Labour lost 3 seats Tories gained 3 seats Tories gained control of the council BNP finished 4th in two wards and 3rd in two wards, with […]
Tags: BNP·Broadfield·Crawley·Elections·Labour Party·Pound Hill·Tories·Travellers
Dirty Tricks – part two
April 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
The second dirty trick I heard about is one which will not be in the newspapers and which I should probably not talk about. It makes me angry, and I am always prone to respond a bit, shall we say, robustly when I am angry. Also it concerns a document which I have not actually […]
Tags: Broadfield·Elections·Racism·Scandals·Tories·Travellers
Another council meeting
January 18th, 2006 · Comments Off on Another council meeting · Politics
Hows this for a crowd at a council meeting! It was not even a ‘proper’ council meeting – just a meeting of the executive committee. Even allowing for the fact that many of the people were only there for Nimby-ish reasons, it makes a change from the usual apathy in the town, and elsewhere. The […]
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Local Distinctiveness
January 17th, 2006 · Comments Off on Local Distinctiveness · Politics
A couple of years ago I was at a summer school run by the RTPI up in Bangor. One session which particularly interested me was on Local distinctiveness as an economic driver, presented by a chap from Chester City Council. It struck a chord with me because although its hard to define exactly what ‘local […]
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