Have your vote

A number of things have been happening on the Town Centre plans within the last two weeks.

1. A number of you took place in the recent ‘Placecheck’ – walkabout consultation of the town centre organised by the Town Team. Input from that day has now been collated, and the team is inviting as many residents as possible to review the suggestions and choose their preferred ones. The information will be available tonight in the Memorial Hall on Thursday, 26th January between 7pm and 9pm. It should only take each person about 10 minutes to record their preferences. This is open to all residents, not just those who took part on the day. We would encourage as many of you as possible to go along for a few minutes and record your views. Output from the exercise will be passed to Page and Park, the architects who are preparing the town centre report for us.

2. You will see in the Bishopbriggs Herald that Morrisons are rethinking the plans which they presented to us at the Memorial Hall in December. This is following the ‘massive public outcry’ which they received for those plans. We believe that very many of people who went along that day were from Cleddens Residents Group which shows that making our voices heard can have an effect. We are still waiting to hear how Morrisons plan to proceed.

The Town Team is still planning to go ahead with the work we have asked the architects to do to ensure that we have recorded what we want for the centre.

For both these reasons, we would encourage you to go along tonight to record your preferences. Can you please pass this message on to any neighbours who do not have e-mail. We will try to hand deliver this letter, but given the short time, may not get to everyone.

3. Finally, we would like to thank the many of you who contributed to our funds following our request. As a result, we have been able to commit the £500 requested for the architect fund, and have some left over for any future ‘campaigning’ needs. We hope to acknowledge the contributions individually in the next two weeks.