As reported previously River CC surveyed every home in Broadhill to find out views on Highland Council's proposal to turn off every other street light.
The results and subsequent comments from parties involved are reported in today's Nairnshire Telegraph - the front page spread infact. 70 homes were surveyed and 37 responses with 30 against and 7 for. The Gurn can reveal that since then Tommy Hogg, the survey coordinator has received another 7 responses and all were against.
Thats a total of 44 responses, 37 against and 7 for. That's a 63% turnout for the River CC survey and this observer would speculate that that is the kind of response marketing people can only dream of. Tommy went on to tell the Gurn today that some residents were very angry that they had been singled out by Highland Council for such treatment and comments made on some of the survey forms have revealed extreme disatisfaction with the Council. Looks like the powers that be have made a mistake with this one. Time for an apology to Broadhill? Tommy said that he will be making a list of the comments (without revealing the names of the authors) and presenting it to his fellow councillors at the next meeting of River CC.
5 comments:
Of all places to select for a lights switch off, Broadhill is a bad choice. A much better choice would be Manse Road and Seabank Road where all the residents have cars and dont use the pavements anyway. Time for a rethink and leave the pensioners of Broadhill alone and move to a more affluent area.
Surely we should cut back on things like footpath lighting and Xmas lights before even thinking about turning lights off in residential areas.
We all pay council tax..... We are all entitled to the same rights, whichever part of town we live in...turn off the Xmas lights especially in Inverness where there are too many anyway, I don,t mind my council tax being wasted on unnessessary things but not if it takes away from everyday needs. Like street lights.
Why did they ask them in the first place ? they should just have turned them off. No backbone these days, just tell them don't ask.
I notice your name and address is missing. Like you say - no backbone these days!
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