Tuesday 21 July 2009

Regeneration or desperation?

We received this from Councillor Oddy, which we are reprinting in full, as we feel it's a matter of significant public interest:

"Carneades,
Thank you for that. I have never put much thought into people’s perception of me or my politics, I have my beliefs you and they have yours. However I did not expect politics to be so heavily involved at Town Council level as it is.
My argument, and that’s what it’s turning out to be, with the County Council is that they are fundamentally wrong in their decision to build offices for 600 staff in the centre of town. The County Council members of the Town Council knew of this decision back in March of this year but they failed to tell us. This proposal has been kept under wraps because they knew there would be a public backlash.
The Council had four options of where to build these offices..
1. The Land West of Bodlondeb
2. Land adjacent to the WAG buildings in the Junction
3. The Centre of Colwyn Bay
4. Council land in the Junction
Options 1, 2 and 4 would have meant using their own money, option 3 means they can highjack the Regeneration Grant, have the offices built at no cost to themselves and reap-in the benefits of selling off the old offices and land.
Had someone not leaked the story to the Pioneer and made it public I believe the County Council would still be keeping quiet about this and pushing it through as quickly and as quietly as possible. There as been no openness or transparency by the County Council yet they deny secrecy and complicity but when you dig deep enough you can see the utter contempt in which they have ignored the real needs of Colwyn Bay"

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