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Thursday 16 September 2010

Emails and Music

You know, if you hadn’t worked out I’m keen on mailing my local paper, I’d be very surprised.

Very surprised.

Especially after the fact that I managed to mail both the Brentwood Gazette, and the Brentwood Weekly News, last week.

Well …

The Gazette’s published the one I sent them.

Hopefully, I’ll get the one to the Weekly News as well … !

It’d be nice to see if I can pull off the double … !

But just so you know, here’s the ones I fired off last week.

And here’s the text of the one I sent to the Gazette, last night.

Dear Sir,

I’ve got to admit, I read the article about the deferment of the planned development on the former Highwood site with quite a bit of interest.

I was actually at that same meeting of Brentwood Council’s Planning Committee, the night the Saint James Road application got turned down: after all, I was the token objector, on the night.

And I’m wondering exactly what conditions on the Highwood site were proving to be a problem.

I’m willing to bet it’ll be the same problems as here on Rollason Way.

Inadequate parking.

A lack of play-space for the children in the area.

And not enough public transport for the locals who can’t drive

All I can do, now, is hope that the committee ignores some of the dafter edicts of central government — the coalition will have some, I think, as many as the last one — and insist that enough parking and playgrounds are included.

Unlike around here.

I also hope that — if Joanna Killian does accept a pay-cut — Brentwood council spends the money on a Compulsory Purchase Order.

That patch of ground in Saint James Road that now isn’t going to be flats, would make a nice small park for me and my neighbours.

I’ll admit, I’m hoping.

But I’m very sceptical.

Yours,

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And just in case you were curious about what I was listening to, while I was writing that lot … ?

Well …

You can pick up Gary Numan’s first album, Replicas, from iTunes, and the assorted works of Alexander Blu from either his site, or from Jamendo. For free: it’s under a Creative Commons License: something I use for the Teasers and 60-question-sets.

Enjoy them.







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