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Meeting tonight to decide location of Wellington clock
Monday 13th June 2011, 3:27PM BST.
The fate of Wellington’s community clock will be decided at a meeting tonight.
The £10,000 Millennium Clock was removed from the square and put up in the town’s £7.5 million civic quarter earlier this year.
But campaigners, armed with a 5,725-name petition, persuaded Wellington town councillors to vote unanimously in favour of re-instating it in the square.
Wellington Town Council clerk Howard Perkins said because of work done in the square since the clock was removed, it would be impossible to restore it to its original position and a new site would be considered tonight.
He said: “The clock was taken out completely as well as the electricity supply, and all the gadgetry as well.
“It’s not a question of returning the clock, it’s also the mechanism and its supply. The whole package has to be considered. When it was agreed it should be returned to the square it didn’t go any further than that.
“It wasn’t agreed to return to a particular site. The detail will be considered before a recommendation is made and a decision by the council will be returned.”
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Really? Can you please send me his name, address and full contact details?
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…and with one swift stroke of the pen, a pathetic excuse for a ‘Town Clock’ is once again blighting the new square.
I hope you’re all proud.
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I’m afraid you’ve completely missed the point. The issue was all about local democracy as the Town Council completely ignored the wishes of the electorate (and then paid the price at the May elections). The new council have at least seen sense and ‘people power’ has paid off. The issue was all about local democracy!!
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Nick, you might be interested that at least one councillor who voted for the clock to be kept in the Square was voted off the council because someone ‘accidentally’ started a whispering campaign that he had voted to have the clock removed.
There will be costs in putting the clock back in the Square. Will Mr Jones and his self-satisfied group pay for these costs out of their own pockets? No, of course not. Didn’t think so!
It’s all very well to shout and protest and get everyone to sign a petition (were all the people who signed it Wellington rate payers? It’d be interesting to find out) but now who will fund this? Us, the poor rate payers of Wellington. Thanks, protesters. Well done.
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