The Crowborough Partnership-The Players.

Having set the scene with the previous post lets shine a bit of light on Crowborough Partnership and see what runs for cover.
CP is difficult to  pin down because there seems to be no recent information on their website at all.There have been Town Council minuted references to CP AGMs being held but there are none published beyond 2009/10 and very little published about its membership or accounts.
The address given for CP is actually the Town Hall address which is  interesting in itself and its known that unelected George Moss is supposedly the leader but actually he is only referred as such in paper articles and press releases.

There are 3 CP groups and a chairman represents each group whilst reporting to the overall leader/chairman of the Partnership.

The 3 groups are The Business Group,Town Enhancement Group,Transport and Tourism Group with 3 Chairmen and an overall Chairman Leading  the Partnership.

I am going to concentrate on the Leaders of the Town Enhancement group,Transport and Toursim Group and the Leader of the Partnership itself.
I am leaving out the Business Group and its Chairman because this organisation has been going for sometime and predates the Crowborough Partnership by a number of years.Also the chairman of the business group is actually a democratically elected councillor (not town council) so I am cutting him some slack.

Chairman of the Town Enhancement group is none other than our friend poor old Clive (Dunn)
Wilson who has been co opted in and out of the Town Council like a fiddlers elbow .
Chairman of the Transport and Tourism group is Mike (Toilet )Tollit who seems to have been or still is the Clerk for Rotherfield Parish Council .

Chairman  of the Partnership  is a  Mr Dudley Hutchings who is  a scouser that supposedly runs his own business (sinister CP phrase) "managing change".

For someone who wields a lot of power within the town and is in effect the shadow leader not a lot is known about Mr Hutchings.

More to come on these three .

The Partnership itself organised the towns healthcheck and the town vision document and is now instrumental in pushing it all through despite objections from the public.A partnership would hint at some sort of input from the public on these documents but there isnt.The public get a rigged   consultation to make it seem like they are having a say but at the end of the day all the schemes in the vision document will be implemented by the Crowborough Partnership regardless. The only role the public has is to pay for the schemes through ever rising council tax bills becoming no more than cattle to be used and abused as required.
The organisations /partners that were consulted on the Healthcheck/Vision are as follows

The Crowborough Town Council 

Crowborough Community Action Group 

The Crowborough Town Enhancement Group  

Crowborough Community Association 

Crowborough Business Group  

Wealden District Council  

East Sussex County Council   

The Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust 

Youth Development Service 

Beacon Community College  

Uckfield Community Rail Partnership 

High Weald AONB Forum

Churches Together

Wealden Federation of Voluntary Organisations 

Sussex Police  

Safer Wealden Partnership

Eastbourne and District Enterprise Agency Ltd

So no public input there its all common purpose infected quangos and common purpose infected third sector organisations alongside common purpose infected Local Authorities.
The top 5 organisations mentioned are all parts of the Crowborough Partnership so its no suprise that their plans were all adopted for the vision document that they will also be responsible for implementing.None of the healthcheck and vision meetings were open to the public and no one outside these organisations have had their say prior to the vision document being published.As such it is the vision of change for the town by the Partnership and no way is it a vision shared with the actual residents of the town.

Just a couple of points of interest which may be relevant or may not.

Kay Moss ex mayor and wife of George Moss works for ESCC at Beacon School and is a trustee of Clued Up which is run by the ESCC Youth development service.
The new mayor is a member of  Churches together.
Wheels within wheels.

The future is not orange its black.

The new visioning document is out and you can read it here.

If you cant be bothered to read it the highlights or lowlights are as follows.

Shared space bollocks going ahead despite protests from everyone.

The town is going to be destroyed by even more unsuitable housing projects which the council and their developer friends are going to push through.They obviously havnt noticed that the new Government has stated that councils can ignore centrally imposed housing targets.

More money wasted on entertaining the poor little shits of the town whose only aim seems to be to destroy anything they come into contact with.Apparently they dont have anything to do in the town (apart from Scouts,Church groups,cadets etc etc etc)

More money for clued up-the mayors favourite non charity charity which she just so happens to be a trustee.This is deemed a priority because in their opinion children need to be given advice on how to take drugs,smoke and have underage sex whilst undermining their parents.Standard communist tactic of undermining families and parental control.

More empty buses driving around the place because according to the council-public transport is good but private transport is bad.How many councillors use public transport I wonder?

Crowborough to be "rebranded" by some twatty marketing company as "top of the Weald".I am putting bets on the company that gets the contract will have something to do with Mr D(stupid glasses) Mc Alonan the non elected councillor who seems to be making a habit of not attending council meetings because he is too busy thinking up shit advertising slogans for shit products.

So there you have it the town is going to be destroyed but at least we will have lots of empty shiny buses sharing the pavements with the public(can no one on the council see the madness of this).Georgy Porgey Moss who thought this crap up has overlooked the fact that no-one goes to the high street any longer because there are no shops of note left.People travel up to the supermakets to get their provisions and I have yet to see a bus service that will take you to Morrisons(other supermarkets are available)wait for you,help you load your weekly shop on board and then take you home and help you unload your shopping bags.No I cant see that happening either.Some people could walk and I suggest that perhaps Georgy Porgey
and his porcine cohorts on the council should set us an example by walking 5 miles a day.The upside of this would mean that they would be 35 miles away from Crowborough by the end of the week and less likely to come up with this socialist nanny state statist bullshit.