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Ive already contacted directly Tina, We have at our disposal fortunately Health and safety consultants two of which are chartered members and really do cut red tape, Chris who you met when you took your first aid course is also a counciller ;) which helps and has already started fighting the bikers corner .
For information, please see below a reply I got from The president of the Calne chamber of commerce
Dear Kevin
Yes I am very concerned about the bike festival. As I understand it the
Rotary club who runs the event do not have the capacity the organise it any
more. It is an important event for the town. The Lions were going to take it
over and decided to run it from Bowood. As this has not gone down well with
either the Town or people who come to the event they are also, as I
understand it, not going to run with the event. As a Chamber we will be
talking to the Town Council to see what can be done. You are right, it is a
major boost to our local economy and I would personally hate to see the
event not take place.
Best wishes
Paul Ogden
President Calne Chamber of Commerce
Hmmm didnt I say in previous posts chamber of commerce was the way to go :) they lean so heavily on the county councils and do get heard, Id also done the same Kev, I reckon a collaboration and some nice support from Wadworths if we can get it will see this better than ever and in its proper place. roads are closed and as such all footpaths should be kept clear where necessary to dissolve the other argument for restricted disabled access around the town, I dont totally hold with it as its a very convienient excuse which people are afraid to tackle and usually accept as read.
Good luck getting the A4 closed! One event would cause traffic chaos throughout Wiltshire hehe
Dabz why so negative, and why would the A4 need closing, it never has in the past, im talking about the blocking of footpaths, its not necessary, the side roads are closed so park the bikes on the roads, use chepstow as a good prime example, every year httb runs in there and just gets bigger, the town accomodate it and embrace it, pedestrian access is also maintained, life will never be perfect but it can be made workable
I think my negativity is only a culmination of 3 days of people telling me how easy it is to organise an event like Calne and getting funny when I don't want to organise it as a WB event. I devoted a huge amount of time organising a similar event this year so it wound me up how everyone seems to know best but doesn't have a clue :)
Fingers crossed Calne will go ahead as normal and will be a great day out for us all!
Totally LMFAO!!!! elf 'n saffie ,council, twiddle. twaddlwe ,organisation innit, oooohhh are we safe ?, ooooh!! have we got a licence to fart --have we ?? help there's going to be somat happenin -----
--------jeezus what is going on today..shut the bloody road ;D ;D ;D part of it was watching peeps piss balling about up and dahn !!! walking thru the [shock horror] traffic----------at what point is the peoples control nazi told to **** off???
am I the only one who is bored senseless by this conformation to twaddle and inability to do anything without some self appointed knob end putting the kybosh on stuff ffs!!!
utter crap ----no apologies if any offended :-*
DO IT !!!!
it ain't brain surgery is it ::)
Oi !!! the Calne bike day is July whatever get yer arse dahn here and anyone wanna sell crap is welcome especially cream cakes and beer---any bands wanna play sort it---job done :)
Sounds like the jobs yours Col.Quote:
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"The Big Society"?????????? :-X :-X :-X :-X
Thanks Col, yeh that's what I was talking about! I assume that post was tongue in cheek to summarise my point about how people haven't got the first clue what's involved?Quote:
Originally Posted by Col