I was one of the original three Bassetlaw councillors charged with bringing a new multiplex cinema to Bassetlaw.
We interviewed people to be the council’s agents and eventually appointed Henry Boot.
Throughout we were told and adhered to the strict rule that as we were involved in this way, we should take no part in the planning process and declare our inte
rest.
I hope the current councillors who have engaged in discussions with these agents have adhered to the same rule.
What was said and written from the start of this process was that the supermarket did not happen without the multiplex. Our stance was and until Labour left power remained, one did not happen without the other.
It comes as no surprise to read in the Guardian that Bassetlaw Council is proposing to take the money and run.
Now into their fifth year of power this Tory administration is so desperate for cash they are prepared to take whatever flak comes their way. How strange that this report finds its way onto the cabinet agenda, the first meeting AFTER the local elections.
With county council elections next year Bassetlaw doesn’t go to the polls again until 2010. Anyone who believes there is any prospect of a new multiplex in Bassetlaw now is living in cloud cuckoo land.
Mr P. Skelding
Common Road, Retford.
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