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Derek:- I also appreciate, it is an arts facility that could always need a subsidy. However, the combining of the market area and arts section balance sheets to me is hiding the true picture of the amount of subsidy required.
Could it be the market hall per square metre is covering all its outgoings, and in fact could be returning a surplus of income over expenditure ? The arts section area is far greater than the market area, and therefore in my opinion separate accounts could possibly highlight these shortcomings to the management.
The Ty Pawb Advisory Board is made up of an Artist, an Artistic Director of a theatre company, an Airline Pilot, an educational co-ordinator, a thought leader, a Portuguese language community representative, a coordinator for the uses of art, a legal consultant, a cohesion team leader and a head of marketing and communications.
When you consider, there is nobody on that Board that has the retail market know how, it only goes to highlight the point greater that the market side is able to look after itself.
The only Wrexham Council representative on that Board and a Lead Member is a former airline pilot. It just could be he has forgotten how to take off.
When the new prison build was being discussed, creating around 764 jobs for outside people and around 413 for local people. Where did Cllr Terry Evans, who was reported as saying,” It is a lifeline for the economy of Wrexham.” expect the 764 employees from outside to find housing. Cllr Mark Pritchard was also in full support of the prison proposals.
These two counsellors were against the LDP primarily on the number of houses that were being proposed could be built.
How times change.
Surely, a developer will only build houses if there is a market for them.
And the next information at 13.56 on the 14th Dec. Waiting time risen to 8hrs 45 minutes with 76 patients.
Wrexview:- Surely you cannot believe the figures that are being put out are correct. Thursday 14th Dec waiting time down to 1 hour 45 minutes at mid day, yet at 12.54 on the same day the wait time has risen to 5hrs 45 minutes with 77 patients.
£100k the cost of not following professional advice.
Advice initially sought and paid for out of our council funds.
Will there be any resignations from the top table and below?
“The advice received is unequivocally clear the judicial review claim has overwhelming merit and the Council has undoubtedly acted unlawfully”
If you then vote to act unlawfully, in my opinion you should resign, and the sooner, the better.
What annoys me is the Three submitted a Notice of Motion on 27th September 2023 to seek approval for the Council to pay the costs of their external legal advisors. It looks later on that same day a Notice of Discontinuance was submitted to Welsh Government. Obviously they had got cold feet after being informed they were legally on their own and racking up considerable costs which the Council were not responsible for.
This undertaking was obviously not very well thought through, I am not really surprised
I take on board the reasoning behind the Judicial review to uphold democratic decisions. However, do full time officers not expect the same respect in giving their democratic advice.
I don’t fully understand the logic of seeking an £80 million pound investment for an enterprise zone only to find there are no new homes for the workers this could attract.
Wrexham Council pushed all buttons to attain City Status, but now want to reject the growth that could come with it.
wrexview:- “Revamping the Butchers Market is a great opportunity if the Council can get the balance right”
The Butchers Market had a total of 34 stalls, of which 11 were let prior to the closure. On closure 4 elected to cease trading and since then the only Butcher has closed. The new Butchers Market will probably have space for around 30 stalls. This, if the 6 stalls at present in Queens Square decide to return, will leave an area of some 24 stalls to fill, considering the current trading trend a huge task.
Should the Queens Square traders find their sales have increased in the new location that they did not wish to move back, only adds to the problem.
A suggestion was made to the Council that the Butchers and General Market stalls be combined, the General with all its clothes stalls being an added attraction in the Butchers.
The suggestion also pointed out that the General Market could be offered out to the likes of Saith Seren as a city centre all eating/drinking/singing/dancing venue in conjunction with the green space opposite. This could integrate with the City of Culture bid.
Unfortunately, the Council did not reply.
