Car Parking consultation up before OSC

The Car Park Orders consultation (including Riverside) is coming up before OSC - Environmental Well-being before going onto the Cabinet for approval. The report basically does a good job of representing both views.

There are some glaring omissions. Where is the Conservative petition? This is still missing! I wonder when this is going to be handed into the District Council? The St Neots Conservative Councillors Group is also missing from all this. Cllr Harty and Cllr Bird did put in comments but all the others stayed silent. The Liberal Democrats relied on their 1548 named petition. Otherwise they were quiet. St Ives Town Council commented about Hinchingbrooke but SNTC didn't comment about Riverside. So why are they being so quiet?

One person did both. Matt Cornish, Editor of the News and Crier, not only got a petition in, he also made a personal representation. Pity many of our local councillors and political groups couldn't even achieve this.

As ever the main problem is finance. The main reason is the deficit. Just attacking the car park charging decision will not work as decision is the symptom and not the cause. This is where Conservative run HDC has got us. By not informing the public about the options over cuts, HDC will win everytime as they hold all the information.

One representation is worthy of note.

When can an absolute promise can be made? Well only if this was put into the deeds. I believe politicians can only be held to account for their own promises and cannot make successors follow these promises.