COUNCILLORS in Caistor will hold an extra meeting before their regular June meeting to discuss more detailed plans of the renovation of the town centre, which are expected to be available in early June.
Coun Ian Robinson, who liaises with the Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI), said the more detailed plans would be presented by officers from Lincolnshire County Council to their next meeting on June 5, ahead of the town council’s next monthly meetin
g on June 12.
He told councillors work was intended to start in late September and take until March 2009, but that officers were still in discussion with bus companies regarding stops and shelters, and that no decisions had yet been made regarding traffic management in High Street/Grimsby Road.
He said there was no intention to reduce parking spaces, but retaining the present number in the Market Place would mean spaces would be smaller than is normally allowed for.
One of the new town councillors, Andre Wilkin, said the THI ‘is not giving the town council the information it needs’.
“We should have more detailed plans, including budgets,” he said. “If we don’t get this honed down, we’ll get what they give us, and that is something Caistor has suffered from for years.”
Coun Deborah Barker reminded councillors that the town council only owned ‘a tiny piece at the centre of the Market Place’.
“If they wanted to, the county council could just resurface it any way they wanted to,” she said.
Coun Wilkin said that would be ‘wholly wrong’.
“This is a parliamentary democracy and the parish council is the base of that democracy,” he said.
The town council will meet on June 11 to see the new, more detailed plans before the next full council meeting the next day.
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