Hatfield Town Centre needs more than a lick of paint, says Paul Zukowskyj
November 20, 2008 10:30 AM
SIR - In reply to the letter the 'Leader' of Welwyn Hatfield Council wrote to you last week, I'd like to ask him what, in his opinion, is a council for? I'd always understood that a primary role for a council was to repair public toilets, make our streets safer, refurbish seating, waste bins, brickwork, and greenery, and repaint and clean things in need of such in public areas.
Apparently our 'leader' considers these things to be additional improvements.
So we're supposed to be grateful that his 'leadership' has finally started doing things a proper council would be doing as a matter of course?
And what of next year? Will the improvements continue? Where is the long-term commitment to drive up standards in Hatfield? Or is this a one-off sop to try to appease the residents of Hatfield?
The mention of the funds being a 'huge amount of resource' is also an insult to the residents of Hatfield. This year, according to the council's figures in 'Welwyn Hatfield Life', the council's magazine, the council budget is over £24.000.000. So how is less than 2% of the budget a 'huge resource'?
Finally, his assertion that he 'met with local traders and residents' last summer is simply spin of the worst kind. At no point has a public meeting been held by John Dean, and we all know from the Poplars issue what he thinks of public meetings, after he congratulated a colleague for 'not bothering to go' to one. The Forum is NOT a public meeting if you need to be invited by the 'leader' to attend. He's either scared of holding a public meeting, or more likely, he doesn't care what the residents of Hatfield actually think.
Our 'leader' is simply not showing any real leadership on this. Hatfield deserves better.
Paul Zukowskyj,
Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Welwyn Hatfield.
The letter above was written by Paul Zukowskyj in reply to John Dean's letter to the Welwyn Hatfield Times this week
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