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My dear Saxon, I’m not asking you to apologise to me for anything, I also run a small business (Or Three) and the similarity in our backgrounds is uncanny.
The long and the short of it is that, whilst the erstwhile tabloid/ITV opinionated seem to conclude that our whole world should revolve around their kids, this isn’t the case and isn’t, to my mind at least, a reason why growth of a community should be prematurely stunted.
You get what you vote for and voting patterns in the area have been predictable for decades ergo, there is little or no incentive for incumbent local politicians to deliver what the electorate want but that’s a subject for a completely different discussion.
@Saxon1 19986 wrote:
The reality is “They will close the door after the horse has bolted”, and it will be up the local residents already living in the area to fight their corner for all local facilities. WBC are already millions in the red and cutting just about service they can, do you really think that they will have the funds to do what we all think they should do. I don’t think so.
There is a major problem encouraging doctors to come to Wales, they cannot simply ignore that fact if they do decide to build new GP surgeries etc.
In my family alone, my mum is waiting for a new knee and has been told it will be 12 – 18 months on the waiting list. A work college has been waiting for a Urology appointment for over a year and has just been given an appointment in Bangor !We cannot simply ignore what will surely affect each and every one of us living in Wrexham.
The funds will come from central government, funding is available and always has been for growth, without growth, Wales will die.
One of my experiences of Wrexham and I hasten to add that it’s not unique and can be found in many small ‘Down On Their Luck’ towns across the UK, is occasional and overt hostility to newcomers.
On this board alone I’ve seen it openly stated how ‘England Wants To Keep Wales Underfoot’.
With attitudes such as those from a vociferous minority who are hostile to incomers, one shouldn’t be surprised when professionals who are presented with a choice of where to live, exercise it and live elsewhere.To quote from a more eloquent poster than I from another thread –
@ddraig 19984 wrote:Everyone needs to be sensible and realistic, houses do need to be built – and on top of that Wrexham is one of 6 strategic settlements in Wales (Wales Spatial Plan) and the only one in North East Wales. Its future success and the ambition to create a better life and more opportunities for our community will be based on growth. Growth of appropriate and sustaining jobs, together with a growth in population. Relatively large towns and its hinterlands need critical mass to sustain facilities and well paid jobs. Hopefully through the LDP critical issues will be addressed to ensure that the development of planned sites is supported by the required infrastructure.
Zinger, I’m not sneering at working parents, I’m simply stating a fact. Kids used to walk or catch a bus to School, the free bus concept is something that sprung up after the war.
If people want better public services then they need to pay more tax and be more vociferous over how that tax is spent but that is in fairness a subject for a different discussion.Children have always had to travel to School, this is nothing new.
It’s not clever to build local facilities based upon mere projections, these decisions have to be based upon hard demand.
I trust and assume that all of those who unfortunately couldn’t get a place in their School of choice, are in education within a five or six mile radius of home?There is political kudos to be gained by campaigning for and installing such a system, there is no political kudos to be gained by quietly ensuring it to be and keeping it, fit for purpose.
If there regretfully transpires a major incident which could have been averted by a better quality of CCTV service, there will be political kudos to be gained in campaigning for an alternative. Expect much chest beating followed by ‘Lessons Will Be Learnt’ as a defence.
You get the general idea, the quality of local public service is directly geared and proportional to the political advantage to be gained by local politicians.
