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Those charges
Sir, - Objections to car parking
in Thirsk have been occupying
these pages for weeks. In precis
they are as follows:-
1. Of no social utility save
money raising.
2. Worsening parking by driving
people out of chargeable
areas.
3. Defacing the environment
with metal boxes.
4. Condemning working people
to fiddle about with small
change every morning.
5. Economic risk to central
shopping and services unwarranted
by the palty sum involved.
6. Little evidence of any alternative
scheme of money raising
being explored.
There is now a much increased
prospect of a change of
Government in 2010, and a
party in power more in sympathy
with the shires. It is a deep
irony that Coun Arther Barker,
leader of Hambleton District
Council, is a member of that
same party, which has brought
about this situation in Hambleton
through financial mis-management.
He is also a promoter through
Yorwaste of a refuse incinerator
at Dalton, which would waft
toxic particles over Thirsk and
Northallerton. Perhaps car
parking is a smokescreen for
this, and not vice versa.
He is an electoral liability.
Why do his own party not press
for his replacement? Why do
they not seek a pledge from
Tory Central Office to re-visit
the paradox of rate capping, introduced
to control the socialist
republics, that is now the cause
of panic in a low spending rural
area?
The local Conservative councillors
have some hard questions
to ask and to answer. They
may find their brethren arriving
at Westminster while they run
for the hills.
CHARLES SHIRTCLIFFE
Shirtcliffe & Reston
Thirsk.
11:11am Friday 16th May 2008
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