Public meeting about Duncombe Hill Green development

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#28

Thanks Starman, just want to get the word out to as many people as possible on as many platforms as possible.

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#29

Ok letā€™s aim to keep this on track. Can we keep future posts on here related to the event please.

If you are on facebook, Michael has posted a link above to that group.

For those with facebook access, if you can post updates here for those without facebook access, that would be fantastic and will hopefully increase the reach of the campaign.

As has been stated upthread, this has thus far been a very successful campaign (if you are of the view to keep the land as it is). For those involved in them meeting good luck tomorrow and I think everyone would agree those involved has done a tremendous job so far.

Have a good evening all.

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#30

Also on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/DHGreenSE23/status/1104443561347596288?s=19

Iā€™ll leave it now to others to repost.

#31

Thanks @starman.

#32

@Seany_Snaps I seem to have lost access to the Facebook group again. Could you check please?

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Now @starman isnā€™t sharing updates from the Facebook group to our forum community, Iā€™d like to be able to.

#33

Well it looks like there are troubles around the Save Duncombe Hill Group with avid contributor Sean Ryan reporting heā€™s been excluded from the developer meeting and that heā€™s been accused of criminal damage.

Meanwhile News Shopper is reporting troubles in People Before Profit:

There is also a long posting on the Duncombe Hill Facebook group which gives insight into some of the behind the scenes goings on, from one personā€™s point of view anyway.

Clearly this little patch of green space is a very emotive subject, and itā€™s sad that it appears to be creating divisions between the groups capable of organising resistance and change, rather that uniting everyone. I guess thatā€™s politics for you though.

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#34

Indeed. It appears the group may now have been excluded from talks.

There also appears to be some confusion around various meetings happening or not today, and who with. I believe the ones with the group have been cancelled.

Sadly I attempted to join last night and for reasons known only to the admins of the group, I appear to have been banned so can now no longer see the group at all, despite living less than 200 metres from the actual site. So for now if someone else has more updates they will need to post them.

Anyway I will post updates as I get them.

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#35

Latest post on the Facebook Group, passed to me by a member who has access (unfortunately me, OakR and John from LPBP - and possibly others - appear to have been arbitrarily banned from the group, which is shame - OakR and I have only ever supported the aims of the organisers)

#37

OK - Iā€™ve just come back from the public meeting that took place on the Duncombe Hill site at 11am. There must have been (at a conservative guess) around 60-70 people who are obviously concerned about the planned development on the site.

Most of the people were there simply to hear what is going on, what the latest news is, and what they might be able to do to continue to fight the proposed development. Two of our local councillors were also there to give information and to state that the Council remains opposed to any development on that site.

The discusssions were mostly polite and sensible - but there is obviously an element that has associated itself with the campaign (from People Before Profit) who are more interested in perpetuating their juvenile Peoples Front of Judea/Judean Popular Front type arguments.

It would be a real shame if the genuine concerns of the local community get sidetracked by political infightingā€¦

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#42

Update from Janet Perham:

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