When I began publishing this newsletter in 2009 (nearly five years ago) one of the things that motivated me to do so was the scheming of the main parties in Halifax to wreck the Town Centre economy. One of the regular themes of my newsletters was my largely futile attempts to wake the market traders up to the fact that their political leaders were selling them down the river.
It all began with the purchase of the old Rose Street Clinic, which Calderdale Council (then under a Conservative minority administration) had accepted a grant to purchase on the condition that they demolished it—utter lunacy! The Cabinet in Halifax was telling the Market Traders Association that there would be money for a brand new shining Enterprise Centre to be built there - and they fell for it!
By 2011 it was obvious that no such money was going to come, so we are stuck with this eyesore. Does Calderdale care, no, because they were too busy lobbying for one supermarket to be built and another turned down. There has been a bit of reshuffling of the deck since Labour has taken control of the Council from it’s Liberal-Labour interim Council.
But then but I stumbled upon this document below.
It would appear that somewhere along the way they forgot to tell us they were planning on flogging the entire Town Centre, when I asked the Town Council at their full meeting in January if this was true they denied it.
It seems I was right all along! It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Tories, Labour or the Liberals running the monkey-farm in Halifax. None of them can be trusted with out Town Centre.
It all began with the purchase of the old Rose Street Clinic, which Calderdale Council (then under a Conservative minority administration) had accepted a grant to purchase on the condition that they demolished it—utter lunacy! The Cabinet in Halifax was telling the Market Traders Association that there would be money for a brand new shining Enterprise Centre to be built there - and they fell for it!
By 2011 it was obvious that no such money was going to come, so we are stuck with this eyesore. Does Calderdale care, no, because they were too busy lobbying for one supermarket to be built and another turned down. There has been a bit of reshuffling of the deck since Labour has taken control of the Council from it’s Liberal-Labour interim Council.
But then but I stumbled upon this document below.
It would appear that somewhere along the way they forgot to tell us they were planning on flogging the entire Town Centre, when I asked the Town Council at their full meeting in January if this was true they denied it.
It seems I was right all along! It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Tories, Labour or the Liberals running the monkey-farm in Halifax. None of them can be trusted with out Town Centre.