Matt
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It really isn’t fair – 10 wards get so called super councillors on inflated pay who think they know what’s best for the whole town. Rest of the town wards get regular councillors who at least can then focus on the actual issues of their constituency rather than pretend to be doing busy work for the whole town.
It’s going back to the broken party political system in Wrexham – a stupid double independent group coalition with Tory austerity bolted on. There was never any high level political master plan for the town. With no manifesto the Exec Board can just fudge through everything.
Anything big has just been messed up over and over – look at the state of the Groves situation, Kingdom, Ty Pawb, ability to keep the private public transport at any standard, failed schools, we’re coming back into cold season and the majority of roads are still in dreadful shape from last winter – what will happen if we have another pot hole inducing winter.
You can take any of those issues and people will make noise about something and the executive board response will be ‘let’s have a meeting about it in 6 months time’ – meaning eternal putting off.
I’m not saying the likes of Labour or Plaid on their own or forced to work together collectively would do much better but what we do need is decision makers who actually give a toss about this town and aren’t in it just for a cushty paycheque or political ladder climbing.
Frustratingly there’s no elections for just under 4 years and you wonder if people will bother to vote to change any of the status quo. I’d like to know where the hundreds of commenters on Facebook who massively slam the council all the time disappear on polling day.
Pointless metric entirely. I think we’ve ranted about these footfall figures the past several times they’ve been published. The fact that they deserve an Exec Board meeting is ridiculous – will no doubt be met with self congratulatory nonsense of some kind.
The only meaningful way of taking the footfall in an objective manner would be having footfall vs sales conversions (and that would have to be on individual businesses).
It’s no different to online – you can have millions of click throughs to your site but if only 0.1% of people buy anything or become a qualified lead then you have a failing business proposition.
I think it’s a massive slap in the face that Derek (or whoever wrote it) made a massive effort to raise issues that are of great concern to a large number of Wrexham residents – to be completely fobbed off.
All I can say is they’re going to need a bloody big iron in this instance. Also goes to show that as long as these public officials receive their hefty pay cheques they couldn’t give 2 hoots about when things go wrong and the impact they have on local communities. It is shambolic that with such a poor launch they have no inputs on how they can help improve things and are just in complete denial that the sky is falling.
I was going to go to this but don’t think I’ll bother now. I thought Oktoberfests were supposed to be lively outdoor affairs – not stagnant and everyone squashed inside sort of things. If people want to drink indoors they can just go to the pub instead. There’s that whole great community feel when everyone comes together on Llwyn Isaf – a real buzz. Buzz Killington is Ty Pawb.
It’s all just a complete waste of time – example of the Welsh Government taking a macro problem – such as emissions and then applying a solution of very little effect to the problem with a complete disregard for the local (micro) area problems that it will cause end road users.
If the actual end benefit is saving lives through lowering pollution then it’s stupid as the % chance of a life threatening accident occurring is increased due to the aforementioned speed issues on slip roads.
If the end benefit is to improve environmental goals for Wales then stop mucking about with this and get cash to do the Swansea Tidal lagoon instead.
I just think a lot of the feel unsafe group who responded are absolute bloody wimps. You can’t help but feel that if the majority of pensioners feel safe & have most likely lived in the town for decades & know what actual trouble was like back in the day then there’s very little for anyone else to fear.
Surely we’d hear about the elderly being mugged left right & centre but it’s not happening. The actual reality is that the age groups that are more affluent and more likely to have vehicles to access other shopping locations such as Broughton, Chester & Cheshire Oaks etc… are using the unsafe factor to mask the fact that they are being shopping snobs & have abandoned supporting this town.
These will be the same people who are complaining that there’s nothing in this town when they refuse to support the day or night time economy. They will also ironically be opposed to the expansion of anything new in town including drive through coffee venues (that they’ll use all the time in precious Cheshire) or even new schools because the extra school run traffic adds 2 minutes to their morning commute.
I’m fully aware that people of all ages are supporting Wrexham with a passion but this dreadful group-think fear of certain local elements is damning the town into a commuter hub only.
It’s high time people stopped wrapping themselves and their family’s in cotton wool & didn’t mistake feeling a bit uncomfortable about seeing the local deprived elements as the equivalent of immediately being under threat of attack.
The problem with moving services like this to inaccessible locations is that the people who would ultimately benefit would not use it & still rattle around town abusing drugs anyway.
The prison is already rife with drug issues as it is. Not sure how a new additional drug unit that deals with non-criminal drug issues will help.
You can also imagine that the more enterprising non-inmates will be smuggling drug supplies into the prison itself. Would be like opening up a sweet shop!It’s interesting because the zero tolerance approach to begging was supposed to get them off the street and it didn’t.
We didn’t have any of these problems when Spice was legal & sold for a pittance. They were all zombifying themselves in the comfort of their own homes. War on drugs has been a catastrophic failure every single time.
Just let them blitz themselves on whatever out of everyone’s way. Give it to them & remove the criminal drug dealing elements and the need for them to beg or commit crimes to pay for the drugs. Not sure how it would be any worse a situation than the taxpayer currently paying for tobacco/alcohol & gambling of those long term unemployed or apparently too sick to work but well enough to smoke like a chimney.No-one wants to pay for society’s failures but also no-one wants to see them cluttering up the streets either. We have to pay for extra policing & rehabilitation anyway.
Furthermore I know some people who went to Ty Pawb specifically for a Blank Canvas coffee so it means footfall is going to get hit even further for the rest of the traders in there.
So basically the makers of the best coffee in Wrexham by reputation couldn’t even keep a venture afloat in Ty Pawb. Says it all about how much of a failure the place is. I wish them all the best where they choose to relocate the Blank Canvas brand to.
