Mid Term Report
Friends and readers. We are a little way into a Labour free local Authority and we have not been swallowed up into a black hole.
Down here in Forth we have seen changes come about even with the hapless neighbourhood manager Peter Strong.
We have more Community involvement than ever before and more will hopefully come. We are the only neighbourhood partnership in the City that has all the 5 action groups Community lead. Royson is to get a new Community Centre on it’s existing site and new social housing is to be built in this Community. The new school at the bottom of Pennywell Road nears completion and we understand there are plans to build a new all purpose health centre in the same area. All this at a time of economic slowdown is good news.
So why do our friends who run the NEN not report on all of this,and leave it to Pilton Sucks to give out the good news.
Clearly Pilton Sucks are not card carrying members of the Labour Party or any other party for that matter,but we do want to give credit where it is due.
Not many people expected much to change when Labour lost power locally,as they had embedded themselves in the Community alongside their place people.
But suprise suprise things have changed and for the better to. There seems to be a real working partnership in Forth And both Councillors Morris and Cardownie have hit the ground running in an attempt to end the years of decay and self interest.
We are sure that both these Councillors are aware That Labour appointees will try and slow progress down giving the opposition an opportunity to say we told you so.
Mistakes will be made along the way but with the action groups Community lead they will be our own mistakes and we can rectifiy them. What Pilton Sucks warns against is that these action groups something which we fully support don’t fall into the trap of becoming official lead,that would be a disaster,and completely undermine what is being achieved. We are all to aware that officials who had a free hand under Labour hate having to work with this system,so it must be working.
Children and Families,Clean Green and Safe, Physical Regeneration, Health and lifelong learning all previously the preserve of officials who ballsed it up are now in the hands of Community chairs and rightly so.
So the report card makes good reading but we warn against complacency,as the sleepers will awake should they smell blood,and any kind of return to the past would be a disaster.