Parking woes for Blackburne Close site

2:36pm Thursday 5th April 2012 in Orford, Woolston, Padgate & Longford

A PUBLIC meeting to discuss the impact of the Home Office building in Padgate will take place later this month.

Residents are worried that insufficient parking space for staff will lead to estates becoming congested.

The site on Blackburne Close will have 340 spaces for 800 workers.

A date for the meeting has yet to be confirmed, but homeowners can contact Poulton North Clr Geoff Settle for more details.

Comments(12)

Nick Tessla says...
8:10am Sat 7 Apr 12

Pity Geoff Settle's Labour party didn't take the interests of local people more in to account when they were running the Home Office and planning this.

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Geoff Settle says...
2:52pm Sun 8 Apr 12

Alan B as the self-proclaimed Lib Dem spokesman for the area that’s a bit rich coming from you.
Considering how your party hadn't a clue what was going back in the day. They didn't even give residents a fighting chance on that and other pressing issues. At least there have been 3 public meetings to try and clear up situation but so far your party has had a no show. Sometimes you can't even drop them off at the right venue!!

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Geoff Settle says...
4:56pm Mon 9 Apr 12

So have your leaders told you to keep quiet - they were never interested in this ward were they!!!!

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Nick Tessla says...
3:30pm Tue 10 Apr 12

You appear to be confused over a number of things. To clarify one of these, I have never proclaimed myself as the spokesman for the lib-dems or any other party. As a consequence, unlike yourself I have no superior party members, or sons of superior party members, to keep me quiet - nor do I have to check with my legal advisers before making a comment (are you still doing that?)


Sorry for the delay in responding to your Sunday posting - I had other things to do, including looking at the damage wrought by your council on local flora - and therefore on fauna as well.

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Nick Tessla says...
3:41pm Tue 10 Apr 12

And no I have no affiliation with the Green Party and do not claim to be a spokesman for the songbird kingdom , the butterfly alliance or the federation of water voles :-)

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Nick Tessla says...
3:45pm Tue 10 Apr 12

Geoff Settle wrote:
Alan B as the self-proclaimed Lib Dem spokesman for the area that’s a bit rich coming from you. Considering how your party hadn't a clue what was going back in the day. They didn't even give residents a fighting chance on that and other pressing issues. At least there have been 3 public meetings to try and clear up situation but so far your party has had a no show. Sometimes you can't even drop them off at the right venue!!
You say, "Considering how your party hadn't a clue what was going back in the day."

Few people did because this was planned - in secret, by your Labour party, when they were in Government.

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grey_man says...
4:16pm Tue 10 Apr 12

Well at least we have got rid of the secretive Labour Party. And what do we have instead - the habitually lying lapdog Lib Dems and the bullying greedy Tories.

I know things are different on a local level, because however incompetent and ineffectual, it's not them that make decisions. They just do what they are told by council employees.

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Geoff Settle says...
4:17pm Tue 10 Apr 12

Gosh I do seem to have stirred up a hornet's nest - just hope your bark isn't as sharp as your sting.

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Nick Tessla says...
10:07am Wed 11 Apr 12

Geoff Settle wrote:
Gosh I do seem to have stirred up a hornet's nest - just hope your bark isn't as sharp as your sting.
Is there an English translation of that posting? :-)

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comwgn says...
9:24pm Fri 13 Apr 12

Simple answer is not to o[pen the building until the "not fit for purpose" home office can provide ample parking.
Either that or give the ho another building such as one of the empty ones on Cromwell avenue.

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Geoff Settle says...
4:46am Sat 14 Apr 12

I don't understand the simplicity of this solution, the times for challenge has long gone and should have been done by the Councillors in office at the time!
The building is open and we are where we are, Cromwell is not an option.
They have a travel to work plan which they have stated that they will adhere to but then they are the home office. They profess to be a good employer and claim to have the best interests of the community at heart and they say that they will substantiate their claim by actions they take. Hence the reason we continue to call public meetings to test and monitor their commitment.

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Nick Tessla says...
2:56pm Mon 16 Apr 12

Geoff, it is a bit difficult to raise objections to a scheme that the Labour government (as it was at the time) were determined to be secretive about.


I cannot help but feel that the blame lies as much with our supposed parliamentary representative , Helen Jones, as with her party minions in the council.

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