"How safe do you feel?" asks Jan Tranter.
- 20 October 2008 08:347795DTC PRESS INFORMATION *****
"How safe do you feel?"
This is your chance to have your say and let your feelings be known
A new initiative to improve public safety is to be launched in Dover Town Centre on Saturday the 1st November. The Town Centre Safety Partnership brings together Town Councillors, police, PCSOs, Shopwatch and CCTV and is supported by Dover Town Council.
Residential areas have PACT (police and community together) groups but not the Town.
This group will cover the business area from York Street, De Bradelei Wharf, Maison Dieu Road, Castle Street and the High Street up to Tower Hamlets junction.
A notice board is being placed in the YMCA shop window with contact details for all the partners and will feature extra information on issues the group are looking at. To find out what they need to prioritise members of the group will be outside the shop on the 1st November from 10 am to 12 to ask the public how safe they feel in the town and why.
Councillor Jan Tranter explains....
"the objective of this partnership is to identify and tackle specific safety issues which affect people when they come into town shopping or in the evening for a meal. From these questionnaires we can target our joint resources at the things which the public tell us have the most impact on them"email: dover7@msn.com - 20 October 2008 08:437796The recent Neighbourhood Forum Meeting at Town Council Offices failed to attract many members of the public. It was a good and fruitful meeting but mostly attended just by councillors and officials with just the merest smattering of public.
This time rather like Mohammed, the Councillors are going to the mountain rather than waiting for the mountain to come to them...ie. This time they are going out to meet the public rather than wait for the public to come to them in the cosy confines of Maison Dieu. Its not a Neighbourhood Forum initiative but similar, in that they require public consultation. It s an initiative by Councillors Sue Jones Deputy Mayor, and Jan Tranter former Mayor.
I myself dont know where the YMCA shop is mentioned in the press Release above but no doubt someone will let us know soon.
If you dont feel safe in your area pop along and let them know.email: dover7@msn.com - 20 October 2008 08:487797I think the YMCA shop is next to the old library and opposite the Prince Albert pub .Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 20 October 2008 09:527800oh right Thanks Marek. I think Ive got it now. Should be plenty of people passing by that spot ready to reveal all their fears.email: dover7@msn.com
- 20 October 2008 10:237801What a good idea!! Going direct to the people is such a good plan.....many of the initiatives, however well intentioned, oftne seem remote from people living here. It's worth the effort of really engaging with people. Good luck, I will be there, nice one!!
- 20 October 2008 12:567808I agree! Hopefully the public will call in and air their views and put forward some suggestions and hopefully the councillors, police, PCSO's etc are able to put them in to action. I wonder if Nigel, Jan et all will dress up as the 'Village People' as in YMCA.
- 20 October 2008 13:027809I though I would just go as "that scruffy, long-haired councillor".Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour - 20 October 2008 17:447812Thanks guys yes we will be there and your right Marek opposite the prince albert where most people have to pass on their way through the town, its an important Issue so we what to grab the Bull by the Horns and do something rather than just talk.
You have the date 1st nov between 10 and 12
not sure which one of the village people I'd be though B W S - 21 October 2008 07:547847Well if you all dress up as the village people Jan you will cerainly get the crowd and yours truly might even get his camera out!
But good luck with it all Im sure you will get good feedback.
email: dover7@msn.com - 21 October 2008 07:567850WELL DONE JAN AND SUE
- 21 October 2008 12:147869I have said this before the reds on the TOWN COUNCIL DO WORK FOR THE TOWN well done to both of you you never know you might see me a red again one day I have been round them all now and coming back again now.
- 21 October 2008 18:597883vic
if you do decide to become a red again, have a word with ken, get him to join.
i believe the party has a bogof deal on membership, you can split it 50/50. - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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21 October 2008 19:317889no howard thats buy one get one free thats bogof.
- 21 October 2008 19:387893Well SAID
- 23 October 2008 21:367981I feel safe In dover or did, but then I was walking up london road and I saw this blond woman with a mans golf cap on her head sceard me to death went stright home for a cup of tea. Sorry Diane love the cap really its nice to see people dress the way they want.
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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23 October 2008 21:537983alan are you sure our jan and not our loverly mayor diane smallwood. - 24 October 2008 07:447989Ah indeed Brian is right there Alan, the lady you describe is not the lovely Jan, former Mayor, but the lovely Diane current Mayor. Diane is noted for her sometimes flamboyant outfits but always dresses magnificently for the occasion...I will add a picture at this point
The picture was taken at the Merchant Navy Memorial Day on the seafront. On the right we have current Mayor Diane Smallwood, the lady on the left is the Mayoress Jean Farrell.
All recent mayors have been blondes, which only goes to prove quite conclusively that... 'blondes have more fun'.email: dover7@msn.com
