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RAID recently received a letter from a Resident and it's worth quoting from it:
"The advantage the other side has is that you are playing on their home ground and they probably have already got at the referee. You are having to play catch up all the time with the seemingly ever changing rules of the game. To have presented such sound arguments and got to grips with this is some achievement. The irony is that the opposition team is being paid (by us taxpayers and residents) to thwart you. I agree with the sentiments expressed and resent being told what is best for me by people who forget they are supposed to be public servants"
RAID is not about politics - but can we trust those at the very top?
Can we trust those work for them and carry out their orders?
Think Sleaze, Donations, Contracts for Chums, Barnard Castle Eye Tests, Christmas Parties at No. 10 etc etc......
So what's RAID contending with?:
1) POLICY INFLUENCES
Central Government (Policy - including donations and planning laws)
Party Donors (Advisory Groups, potential influence & hope of payback?)
Our MP
Our Local Authority (Policy, planning, development strategy, transport, infrastucture, relationship with businesses)
Our Local Councillors (Connecting with the Community and telling people what's really going on?)
Our Town Council (which has relatively little real-world opposition power, in relation to the Local Authority)
Restricted/witheld information, stalling, vague or zero answers
Other visible contenders (and potential overlap with the above):
2) DIRECT COMMERCIAL INTERESTS
Banks Property (Trying to force a developer-led solution on us. Seemingly ignoring current National/Local Government intent not to build on Greenbelt)
Wren (An [agressively?] successful business that has imported horrendous traffic problems to Barton. Owned by a top tier Tory donor)
Major Developers eager to concrete over the the area (Commercial interests and profit)
3) CURRENT POTENTIAL OUTCOMES INCLUDE
Massive and unwarranted Eco vandalism and pollution issues
Building on Greenbelt land, just to suit Developer and commercial interests (attempts to change the Local Plan)
Further stress on an infrastructure that's already overloaded
A delayed, OTT & hidden-agenda Relief Road solution - when a quick win, low cost solution to the HGV problem is staring us in the face!
4) THE BIGGEST RISK OF THE LOT?
DOING NOTHING & BEING SORRY LATER
All the above issues feature within this website
Take a closer look and you will see lots of detail
YOU will see how difficult it is for a Community to get listened to
AND GET WHAT WE REALLY NEED AND WANT
NOT WHAT POLITICIANS & DEVELOPERS WANT US TO PUT UP WITH
THE ONLY HOPE OF DOING THIS IS BY MAKING YOUR VOICE HEARD
IT'S BEEN IGNORED FOR FAR TOO LONG !!
RAID GIVES YOU THE DETAILS SO YOU CAN DECIDE
DON'T JUST SHRUG & PUT UP WITH THINGS - TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE !!
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD !!