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Bathhouse petition launched

9:37am Saturday 26th January 2008

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A PETITION against plans to build Cardigan's new hospital at the controversial Bath-house site was started today.

Plaid Cymru members of the town council, led by mayor Cllr Melfydd George, launched their campaign at the present hospital.

"It is time to do something. Everyone I meet in the town is against the Bath-house site for the new hospital and we have to make sure the voice of the town is heard," said Cllr George.

"Perhaps we should have done this some time ago, we have to make the health trust listen to the people of the town," he added.

A meeting set up for Friday with representatives of the Ceredigion NHS Trust and town councillors to discuss the project was postponed by the Trust and a new date has yet to be arranged.

"Whether we have a meeting or not we will be showing the Trust there is very strong feeling in the town and I am sure there will be wide general support for this petition," said Cllr George.

Copies of the petition form are available at shops and businesses throughout the town.


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lil owz, town says...
1:28pm Sat 26 Jan 08

Ive been a resident in cardigan town for many years and believe it would be a disgrace for us to destroy cardigan towns centre with the plans for developing the bath house. they have already spoilt itwith shops for riff raff like aldis. iam an up and coming producer on wild west records, and am looking to spend my inheritance in cardiga. hardcore till i die. cannon crew

Mike Allen, Aberporth says...
11:56am Wed 30 Jan 08

Whilst I agree that each development should be addressed individually on its own merits, any objections should be raised at the correct time and place, ie. the planning meeting held to discuss such matters.
If the relevant permissions are given, retrospective objections from poor losers should not be considered, unless it is throught the correct appeal procedures, otherwise the system leaves itself open potentially to objections being raised years after permission has been given purely to satisfy some personal vendeta by someone with a grudge.

Also with narrow minded snobs such as "lil owz" (too embarrassed to use own name perhaps?) adding their comments to the debate, it is not doing the reputation of the objecting parties any good at all.

Daniel Burton, London says...
2:17pm Wed 30 Jan 08

Why should there be a specific time and place for objections to something that could have a detrimental effect on Cardigan for years to come? Maybe if someone was systematically minded I could see why he may wrongly assume that everything has to be by the book, but this isn't just some development that could be an eyesore etc. this is a development that may dislocate the shopping centre and severly worsen an already pathetically inadequate traffic system, and what is a town if it isn't about trade and transport. I for one was only aware of the planning meeting ex-date, so does that mean that I have inherently lost all rights to oppose, or even to have an opinion? Also retrospective is the wrong word, this majority opinion isn't retrospective, it's an opinion that has existed from initial understanding of what was involved. Also, would you really want a system closed to any objections after a certain date? Seems a bit anti-democratic to me.. One objection can and would never halt this, therefore I think that your system is potentially quite safe.
By the way, I think the first comment may have been taking the p*ss ;)

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