Public meeting plan to discuss Ludlow A-boards concerns
Tuesday 6th July 2010, 8:00PM BST.
Pilot plans to remove pavement advertising in a Shropshire town may be discussed at a public meeting, after pressure from concerned businesses.
Traders at a meeting of Ludlow Town Council services committee last night said their concerns had not been listened to.
The pilot to reduce the number of A-boards in Ludlow is being run by Shropshire Council.
Veronica Calderbank, Ludlow town clerk, said today the town council’s services committee had asked her to write to Shropshire Council asking for a public meeting, following a discussion in a private session last night.
Three traders concerned about the A-boards were at last night’s meeting.
Margaret Leake, who runs Ludlow Laundry, said more traders should be given a chance to air their concerns.
Debbie Chatham, of Ludlow Cookshop, said: “We are trying to get to the bottom of which A-boards are causing a problem so they can be dealt with.”
A group of 16 traders, represented by Hatchers solicitors, had a closed meeting with Steven Brown and Kate Adams, from Shropshire Council, last week.
But other traders say they were not asked to attend and are now trying to resolve the situation.
Ms Chatham told the services committee: “Can you deal with our issues and confirm to the rest of us in writing you don’t intend to take it any further? We’ve had no reply from Shropshire Council and nothing we’ve asked for has been forthcoming. As far as we know we’re still vulnerable to having our A-boards taken and destroyed.”
Councillor Viv Parry, committee chairman, said she felt she did not know enough about the issue. Anyone with concerns is asked to contact Councillor Parry.
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Another chapter in the sorry saga of bad PR for Ludlow. In April a PR “expert” was appointed to help – not money wiselt spent I think!!
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Port Hill Boy:
if the PR expert was only hired in April, then they wont have had chance to do anything yet: they wont have finished “induction processes” covering equality awareness and the whole range of Health and Safety nonsense they have to go through. Dont expect a new started to actually do anything in the first 6 months while they are told how to tie up their shoelaces, use a mouse without breaking their arm and the other rubbish the council spends all of OUR money on…
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