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| Jeremy Lefroy MP |
I contacted Jeremy Lefroy on behalf of the community regarding the disgraceful lack of section 106 cash being spent in the community, pointing out the real need for a burial ground.
Hello Mr Lefroy,
I hope you are well, I know you are busy as always, I
wondered if you had put any thought to the ongoing problem of the villages in
the surrounding area of Stafford seemingly receiving less and less from the
Borough Council in the way of services and support. We all know money is tight,
but as a Key service village we have had more development in proportion to the
size of the community than most villages. I recently sent in a FOI request to
Stafford Borough Council to ask how much of the section 106 cash or CIL money
had been spent in the Parish of Colwich in the last 5 years. I received a one
word answer........none!
How can this be as a community we should have generated
somewhere around £500,000 in cash for the area and not one penny has gone on
improving the infrastructure of the community. I was more than shocked.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter,
and specifically what we can do to change that situation. We currently need
desperately a burial ground, land is available cash for most of it is in hand.
We need more youth services in the village, footpaths upgraded and maintained,
hedges trimmed I can always provide an extensive list. It would be good is just
a gesture could be arranged to deliver something like the burial ground. The
developers are in the community now, they could clear the land and lawn it and
build a nice wall around the site, the Parish Council is sitting on a pot of
cash as a contribution payment, the diocese of Lichfield have given their
blessing. It could be an easy win all round.
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind Regards
Rolfe
I have received a reply from Jeremy last night which said this
Dear
Mr Pearce,
Thank
you very much. I will certainly take this up. It is vital that villages are not
overlooked in the matter of key services and infrastructure.
Thank
you for bringing this to my attention.
With
best wishes,
Yours
sincerely,
Jeremy
Lefroy
Member of
Parliament for Stafford constituency
House of
Commons, Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA
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+44 (0) 20 7219 7154 f +44 (0) 20 7219 4186
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I have no idea if this will in any way improve matters or speed things up, but I hope this simple bringing together all the parties involved will allow a simple decision to be made on behalf of the villages. If we get nothing else it will be good to finally have a place for those in the community who have lived here all their lives an opportunity to be buried here in the community they loved.
I will keep you informed of any progress, but at least there IS PROGRESS.
It will be interesting to see if the local Borough Councillors Alan Perkins and Stuart Learoyd alongside Jeremy Lefroy, can speed up the process BEFORE the developers leave the community. With them still building in the area they may be obliged to deliver some community work as part of the payment, but as ever nobody has asked them.
ReplyDeletelets hope we get some progress now
ReplyDeleteCome ON! lets get real what do you expect to achieve, nothings going to happen its all brown envelope time and back handers
ReplyDeleteI know that has been the cry of The Save the Haywoods group over some 5 years of skulduggery but unlike them I am not going to accuse anyone of anything illegal unless I have either seen it for myself or I have evidence of it. This is about cash legally been given by the Developers to the Borough Council, who then legally spend the cash on what they want, despite some of it should be coming to the Haywoods, none of it did.
ReplyDeleteThought - If you are a member of the Council and you see something wrong going on, and you stand by and do nothing, are you as guilty as those who did the wrong. In my book you are.
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