Handbridge Park Ward is a wonderful place to live, so wonderful in fact (apart from a few diehards who have nothing better to do of an evening) no one cares to bother our elected councillors at Community Forums anymore. The last one was back in November 2012. Cllr's Daniels and Sullivan are looking for an as yet unidentified format to appeal to a wider set, after all the 'diehards' already know how to pester by email, phone or face to face on the Old Dee Bridge !
Things ain't what they used to be. Overleigh, as we were once called, had well attended meetings called Area Committees. Minutes were taken and elected representatives and council officers could be held to account. Em-passioned pleas and open discourse were the order of the day, you could see if things were being done, or not as the case may be. Alas, since their demise and the introduction of Community Forums those same pleas get lost like whistles in the wind. Do you hanker for the old Area Coms ? Any suggestions to revitalise local participation ?
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