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Let's get a few things straight about the Leisuredrome

Posted by editor on Oct 31, 2006 - 12:05 AM
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LET'S GET A FEW THINGS STRAIGHT ABOUT THE LEISUREDROME

Dear Ed,

After reading the recent contributors to your Chatterbox, and the prominent item in the Folkestone Herald this week about what Cllr T. Buss may or may not have said to the Planning meeting when this item was discussed, I think the authors need to remind themselves of the circumstances of how we have got to this situation.

We need only to read the Hawkinge Parish Council Minutes about this item over many months to appreciate it.

The Parish Council had tried over many months to make the Leisuredrome available to the Hawkinge Youth and Community Sports Council, which incidentally listed Cllr. P. Smith as its Charity Correspondent. To this end it agreed to pay their legal fees as well as its own to facilitate such an arrangement.

After many months of trying and promises made in Council by Cllr. P. Smith nothing materialised, whilst all the time its legal costs were mounting and on top of that they were paying rates on the property.

In effect our money was going into a bottomless pit and I think the Parish Council believed it had no option but to take its current course of action to protect the public purse.

On top of that, some members of the Sports Council then reported many members of the Parish Council to the Standards Board for England. One notable exception being Cllr.P. Smith. The charges were dismissed.

I always believe that to understand where we are today it is always necessary to recall the events and personalities that have led to them, and only then make a judgement.

It is now quite clear to to me where the responsibility for this current situation rests.

The most curious thing about this farce is that although Cllr P. Smith declared a prejudicial interest on this subject recently at Shepway, in the Hawkinge Parish council minutes I have read, it appears he has never declared an interest.

VERITAS

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