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JUST IN CASE YOU WONDERED...WE'VE BEEN AWAY ON HOLIDAY IN SCOTLAND SINCE MONDAY MORNING - NORMAL BRIGG BLOG SERVICE IS NOW RESUMED.


Thanks to the worthy efforts of Coun Alec Depledge, we can now bring you a link to the newly-created website for Brigg’s Community-Led Plan, which is being overseen by the town council…
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Coun Alec and Couns Jane Kitching are overseeing the website and comments received from interested members of the public.
For the benefit of those Brigg Blog followers who haven’t followed the Community-Led Plan since its first mention, here’s a brief outline to bring you up to speed.
Such plans set out things members of the community would like to see developed and provided. The Brigg plan is being funded by a grant (provided through North Lincolnshire Council) and when it’s all been agreed – perhaps a year from now – a final written report will be produced (contents of which will doubtless be available online, too).
At their latest meeting in the Angel Suite Lounge, members of Brigg Town Council’s Community-Led Plan Committee were taken into the town clerk’s office, where Angel Suite manager Karen Deeley, seated at one of the PCs, gave a sneak preview of the new website.
Everyone then returned to the Lounge to continue the meeting.
Co-opted members of the public serving on the committee are Ken Harrison and Barbara Morris.
Chairman Coun Tom Glossop said committee members had undertaken three sessions in the town centre, talking to members of the public about the plan.
“The feedback was very good, in terms of volume,” he commented.
People who visited a special display in the Angel Suite one Saturday morning were invited to jot down thoughts on what they wished to see included in the plan (eg better use of the recreation ground, making greater use of the River Ancholme, encouraging tourism).
This was broadly along the lines of…What I love about Brigg; What I hate about Brigg.
The initial “findings” have now been posted onto the Community-Led Plan’s website (link above). However, there’s still time to make your views known.
The Community-Led Plan Committee is likely to have groups working under it to look into particular issues and report back.
The committee seems particularly keen to gauge the views of young people and youth groups, as obviously today’s teenagers are the citizens of the future.
In the hit song Going Underground, the Jam famously suggested: “And the public wants what the public gets. But I don't get what this society wants.”
Well, Brigg’s “society” now has a golden opportunity to say exactly what it wants.