Neighbourhood forums fail to inspire.

The Neighbourhood Forums still fail to inspire the residents. In a recent article HDC said a total of 200 people attended the last round of Neighbourhood Forums. That is 200 people over 5 venues. This makes an average of 40 people a meeting. But how many were ordinary members of the public? Going by the previous meeting this is not many. As I have pointed out most of the people attending are Councillors, Police, County and District Officials. This has totalled nearly 35 officials and politicians at each meeting leaving 5 members of the public. Hardly worth all this expenditure and Officer time.