| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Re:Re:Now LABOUR Cllrs move against Ivybridge residents on Rugby Match Day parking | |
| Posted by: | Simon Anderson | |
| Date/Time: | 27/02/15 16:12:00 |
| From a newspaper up north: Estate feud finally ends 12:32pm Sunday 5th August 2007 By Chris Briddon Ivybridge estate residents have united to end a 20-year quarrel More than two decades of feuding between rival groups came to an end end last Thursday evening as members of the official tenants' association NITA (New Ivybridge Tenants' Association) and the independent residents' group Ivytag (Ivybridge Tenants' Action Group) agreed to work together. At a packed meeting at the estate's Bridgelink Centre chaired by Coun Phil Andrews, Lead Member for Housing and Community Safety both groups were dissolved simultaneously to make way for a brand new venture, to be known as the United Residents' Association for Ivybridge (URA). Residents voted overwhelmingly to bury the hatchet and launch the the new group which will enjoy the support of members of both former groups. A total of 30 residents, including several youngsters keen to launch their own youth group, signed up for the new committee. URA will be chaired by former NITA chairman Tina Howe, with Al Ayoby former deputy chairman of Ivytag as vice chaiman , Ron Robinson secretary and Mohammed Jarche treasurer.. Speaking after the meeting, Councillor Andrew said: "This is a truly wonderful achievement by the people of Ivybridge and one which I am immensely proud to have helped bring about in the face of resistance and often indescribable hostility from political elements and other members of the old guard' who once enjoyed such a stranglehold over the local housing movement. "The success of this project serves to demonstrate that anything can be achieved when there is a will to unite rather than to divide, to create rather than to destroy. "It vindicates the work of all of us who have striven to ensure that party politics do not dominate our community life, and who have insisted that everybody is treated equally and given a fair crack of the whip whatever their views or affiliations." He added: "I have immense confidence in those who have been entrusted with running the new group to deliver a first-class service to the community of which they are part." Back © Copyright 2001-2015 Newsquest Media Group |