Sunday 15 May 2011

Public meeting and More Information

Public Meeting
Apologies to all I have not updated this blog for while. Whats happened? Quite a lot actually.

The Public meeting took place Steve webb the local MP and Chris Willmore from the Town Council hosted the meeting and explained all the details behind the developers planning applications around Yate.  An article with regard to the meeting appeared in the Meeting Article

For details of the meeting and very good information on the Meeting see the Lib Dems Focus special edition.
http://www.paulhulbert.org/focus/brimshamspecial.pdf

Petition
Please sign the petition against the development, so far 155 people have signed it we need more.
http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/stopbrimsham

Brimsham Park Campaign Meeting 28 April 2011
 We held our first meeting at the Beaufort Hunt.
full details are on the facebook site.

key issues discussed were
Distributing leaflets in key areas of Yate – Railway, Health centre, Shopping areas.
• A competition possibly sponsored locally to make people aware of what’s going on.
• The need to find out more about the liberals petition? Do we need our own?
• To campaign more widely in Yate not just Brimsham Park
• To find out more about the South Gloucestershire Councillors and parties and to
write to them.
• To create a website with very clear information on how and where to protest.
• To try to get as many Allies as possible. Environmental Groups etc.
• To find out what is needed for media campaigns. What are the hooks, they are
looking for?
• The need for more face to face campaigning.
• To start thinking about campaign funding and how to manage it.

The next meeting is already planned.

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