Hey, Bracknell Forest Councillors and Bracknell Regeneration Partnership....

Remember this -

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/89349115/Bracknell-Town-Centre-Masterplan

How much did that cost the local tax payer?

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   You're right in everything you say Beef. I grew up working on my local market in Suffolk as a schoolboy (often when I should have been at school!) and market's are a terrific thing - often the very heart of a community. The indoor markets in Stevenage and Sheffield are good examples as well as the more traditional outdoor markets around the country (often centuries old).

And there's no better way of taking on the march of the mega sized supermarkets. The traditional high street is over. But you'll never get the likes of MBW or BRP to see that.

I've lived in some dumps in my time and you know what? I love Bracknell. It has a lot going for it. It's pretty low on crime, pretty safe for our kids, green and pleasant, and getting shafted by party politics and a class of politicians - locally and nationally - who laugh up their sleeve at the ordinary person going about their lives. They've destroyed our sense of community and neighbourhood for the sake of cheap, dishonest political rhetoric.

How can you represent the people who put their faith in you when you're a slave to party dogma and vested interest?

Phillip Lee's outlook is completely individualistic and ideologically opposed to any sense of community. He'll say the opposite when Tory HQ demand it. But just analysing the things he says (then denies he said!) shows us he has no real commitment to Bracknell.

Much of the same criticism can be leveled at the local Tories too.

It makes my blood boil to see the way they con us and divide us with their false promises and partisan posturing.

Bracknell doesn't need that. It needs to believe in itself and show the politicians who the masters really are.

   The market needs to be under cover in order to protect stall holders. There are at stall's at the Market that we do not have in town or anywhere near. They would never be able to set up outside.

   Winstanley, I actually agree with much of what you say and am a proud Bracknellian (or 'olian', I don't know which I prefer) living in exile.

The Town has so much going for it and deserves a far better press than it gets because everyone focuses on the Town Centre. We truly have a great little town with fantastic potential, and if you genuinely are going to campaign for what is best for the town then you have my full and unequivocal backing.

It is great to see the redevelopment 'finally' moving though I won't believe it until I see it.

How I feel about the market is a general apathy, it hasn't been great since I was a kid when I'd go every weekend with my nan. How you fix it I don't know, but I would suggest it's current location is the very root of the problem and to my mind it should be IN the town centre with the majority of shops.

If that is the case then yes some may close, but the increased footfall would SURELY mean more will open and the thing will grow.

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   HK - the good Councillor was swanning around Eastleigh this weekend campaigning for the Tories in the upcoming by-election. Probably decided to make a week of it. Why should we be surprised at a Tory spending energy on anyone other than the people they are meant to represent.

Seriously Bracknell? This is a great town, often slagged off and mocked, and you know why? Because of a cosy Tory clique who think politics is a big game with their chums, and a way of polishing their image and standing to a similar-minded bunch of self serving in-breds.

These people don't serve you - they serve themselves and their cosy little gang. Labour and Lib Dems are no better locally. No opposition, outrage or anger from them. And they expect us to vote for them?

It's a Monday morning, it's half term, and I get so angry because the schemes and deals of people like MBW and Phillip Lee actually impact on the future of my children, your children. I won't have it.

I'm standing against this lot in 2015 as a parliamentary candidate and councillor.

As an Independent.

Not for a party. Not for myself. For you Bracknell.

To Phillip Lee and the local Tories - I'm going to take you on and I'm going to take you apart!

   What market? A handful of traders some who do not bother to open fridays. it hasn't been worth the trip for years.

   8 out of the 14 stalls we have will close which will leave 5 stalls

Excellent maths...

   Having just written to MBW I find he is away on holiday from 16th to 23rd Feb (or so the auto reply says). So, he devastates lives, asks for feedback and all just before he goes away on holiday. I shake my head with disbelief as I write. Drop the bomb and then run away till the dust settles seems to spring to mind.

   Not sure how someone can say they are a massive fan of a market when they seldome go to it. All talk and no action. At least when Graeme was in charge, he made the effort to come down at least every fortnight to touch base with us all. Now, we see nobody and find news out from the media. Says it all doesn't it.

   For the past 2 years we have had an excuse of a lip service from BRP as to what’s going to happen to the market. Today, I flick through the Bracknell News and find this article. Well Mr B Walker, all I can say to you right now is thank you very much. Thank you for saying how you are a massive fan of the market (I personally have seen you down there twice in 2 years 3 at a push). Thank you for NOT telling us about the £75,000 that has been put aside. Is this for the tarmac and painted lines for our new market? I can’t see how else it will be spent as a roof is obviously out of the question. Thank you for NOT telling us the plans BEFORE you decided to put our future into the paper. At what point were the traders at the market going to be told about what our future holds? Yet again we are left to find information from the local paper. What is worse is that we find out on a Friday and so then can’t do or find any further information until Monday (there goes another rib to think we will be told anything if we do try to get info from BRP). We are now left in pieces over the weekend and can only hope the people of Bracknell will stand behind us on this one and contact MBW as soon as possible. I feel well and truly slapped in the face. MBW hasn’t even had the guts to tell us before going to press. How are we meant to feel? In my dealings with representatives of the council and BRP, the only sure fire conclusion I have come to is that integrity is not a pre-requisite for the positions they hold.

The stalls that will go out of business are: me (I don’t have a mobile van or a mobile cafe), material, haberdashery, plants and gifts, magazines, eggs/cake decorating, pet food and the fish stall. This will leave fruit and veg (if they haven’t lost the total will to live by then), mobile phone, mobility stall, gold and the butcher (I am presuming they have a refrigerated van to sell out of). So 8 out of the 14 stalls we have will close which will leave 5 stalls.