| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:What is being done: | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 20/07/12 08:59:00 |
| Not trying to be mischievous but to me an element of your post directly correlates to my comments about what 'the public' means. Local residents, amenity groups and local councillors are, and quite rightly should be, all part of the decision making process. However, you make no reference to organisations based outside the Borough intending to develop within the Borough, or commercial companies within the Borough seeking to expand. Those organisations and companies, and the 'experts' that work on their behalf, have as much right to be 'served' by the Council to meet their needs, aims and aspirations as Mrs. Bloggs at 72 Church Street or a local Residents Association, but it is quite likely that their needs, aims and aspirations may be very different/sometimes directly contrary to those of Mrs. Bloggs or an RA. So quite simply no Council can please all of the public all of the time, and that's my fundamental point - 'serving the public' is such a vastly over-simplified phrase that I don't think it such be used to describe what a Council Officer should be expected to do. |