Cllr Barry Chapman is wrong over public conveniences

In a letter to the ever excellent News and Crier 7/1/10 Cllr Barry Chapman informs the residents the public conveniences are not the responsibility of the either the District or Town Councils. True. This is a power given by Parliament to both Councils to provide this service. The District Council owns the buildings and surrounding land these toilets are situated on. Both Tebbutts Road and Riverside Park Toilets are provided by HDC. It is HDC that is closing the service. It is essentially a Conservative Stealth Tax on St Neots.

What about South Street Toilets? If you read up on HDC minutes you'll find they want to demolish this building. More here. HDC has been talking about selling South Street Toilets for the last few years.

The basic problem is Cllr Barry Chapman wants to up the St Neots Council Tax. This will help out his Conservative colleagues on HDC out. The £100,000 windfall turns out to be £85,000. It is untrue to say much of this money will  be spent on consultants and solicitors. It will be spent on sorting out the mess of the budget that the Giles and Thorpe regime left this Liberal Democrat Town Council run in.