By: philjay

philjay — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:23:38 +0000

I have taken advantage tonight of attending the monthly surgery of Horwich councillors. Stephen Rock was the only one in attendance and apart from one other, I had his undivided attention for the best part of an hour. Whilst I found him attentive, I was surprised how little he knew about our campaign. ‘He does now’. He implied that there was no dialogue between Horwich and Chorley councillors at the moment on this matter, however a request had been issued to them and they were still awaiting a reply. He informed me that he was attending a meeting of the Rivington Heritage Trust tommorrow, wednesday 8th at which he expected the Go Ape development to be on the agenda (I think a golden opportunity to voice an opinion in favour of our campaign, whether it will be taken remains to be seen).
On behalf of all involved, I have informed him that we are passionate about our cause and will not go away, we have a strong justification for revocation of the planning consent and are seeking as much publicity as we can possibly muster, and expect the full support of all Horwich councillors who have already voiced there opinion in our favour.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE to everyone we must keep up the momentum of this campaign. Emails, phone calls, letters, direct contact to councillors are so important. As Bob has said they can’t just ignore us if we keep badgering them. Show them we won’t go away whilst injustices like this exist. They are public servants, paid by you.

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By: philjay