Pro Tesco councillors elected on Brixham town council in low turn out by-election
BRIXHAM town council has two new councillors following a hard-fought by-election.
Lindsay Harrison and Jessica Stock, who both ran as independent, defeated Richard Ryl and Cheryl Hampton from the Brixham Residents Against a Tesco Superstore group.
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Mrs Harrison and Ms Stock will now replace Gordon Boote and Nick Henderson who resigned from their St Marys with Summercombe seats last month.
The two former councillors were supporters of the £20million proposed Tesco town centre development.
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Cllr Boote resigned after the town council turned down the scheme on traffic and access issues while Cllr Henderson tendered his resignation after feeling 'more and more disenchanted' with the way the council was operating and because of personal reasons too.
Their resignations were the second and third in four months.
Mrs Harrison and Ms Stock received 569 and 608 votes respectively while Mrs Hampton and Mr Ryl received 380 and 349 votes.
Turnout was really low at 16.6 per cent.
The newly elected councillors have now vowed to "bring some common sense approach back to Brixham Town Council" and fight for the issues that matter to local people.
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by Jungle_Jim
Saturday, March 23 2013, 6:24PM
“mig46
Unfortunately the town council have made their recommendation to the planners and cannot reverse it unless the plans are referred by Torbay again
Fortunately(?), the planners don't have to take any notice of them
Just had my council tax bill for the year - 46% increase by the town council - as a direct result of the mismanagement following the elections 2 years ago. Such are the dangers of single-issue candidates”
by Jungle_Jim
Saturday, March 23 2013, 6:23PM
“mig46
Unfortunately the town council have made their recommendation to the planners and cannot reverse it unless the plans are referred by Torbay again
Fortunately(?), the planners don't have to take any notice of them
Just had my council tax bill for the year - 46% increase by the town council - as a direct result of the mismanagement following the elections 2 years ago. Such are the dangers of single-issue candidates”
by Draystone
Saturday, March 23 2013, 3:34PM
“If you have not had the chance yet to see the before & after pictures of the new Tesco development in Fore street I urge you to go in and have a look - I had only seen limited pictures in the Herald up until now and was extremely impressed with how sympathetically it has been done and how much it improves the appearance of this run down area of the town.
Lets make sure that the vast majority of us who understand the importance of this development to Brixham's future continue to make their voices heard until the work actually begins - Do not give the BRATS any more opportunity to peddle their scare tactic poison unopposed, I have seriously had enough of the tail wagging the dog on this issue.”
by Draystone
Saturday, March 23 2013, 3:33PM
“If you have not had the chance yet to see the before & after pictures of the new Tesco development in Fore street I urge you to go in and have a look - I had only seen limited pictures in the Herald up until now and was extremely impressed with how sympathetically it has been done and how much it improves the appearance of this run down area of the town.
Lets make sure that the vast majority of us who understand the importance of this development to Brixham's future continue to make their voices heard until the work actually begins - Do not give the BRATS any more opportunity to peddle their scare tactic poison unopposed, I have seriously had enough of the tail wagging the dog on this issue.”
by Draystone
Saturday, March 23 2013, 3:32PM
“If you have not had the chance yet to see the before & after pictures of the new Tesco development in Fore street I urge you to go in and have a look - I had only seen limited pictures in the Herald up until now and was extremely impressed with how sympathetically it has been done and how much it improves the appearance of this run down area of the town.
Lets make sure that the vast majority of us who understand the importance of this development to Brixham's future continue to make their voices heard until the work actually begins - Do not give the BRATS any more opportunity to peddle their scare tactic poison unopposed, I have seriously had enough of the tail wagging the dog on this issue.”
by pjbrixham
Saturday, March 23 2013, 12:27PM
“We can now put the by-election of last Nov 15 into perspective.
In that election other factors undoubtedly played a part such as Andrew Baldrey being a Lib Dem Torbay counciller and the fact that the BRATS candidate Rosemary Clarke was a Labour councillor for ten years in Bristol.
Given the standings of the main political parties at that time there is no doubt that quite a few of the votes Clarke received would have been cast for the reason she is a member of the Labour Party while some others would have been an anti Lib Dem vote by Lib Dem supporters unhappy about the coalition with the Conservatives.
The by-election of last week carried none of those other factors, it was a straight choice between the BRATS who don't want regeneration and the independents who do.
The BRATS candidates were comprehensively beaten.
There can now be little doubt that had it not been for those other factors at the 15 Nov by-election the BRATS candidate Clarke would has lost by some distance.”
by Ax0l0tl
Saturday, March 23 2013, 10:25AM
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by dgldBRIX12
Friday, March 22 2013, 11:01PM
“Now that the council have made their decision we finally find out what support BRATS really have.
There are many issues to be dealt with in Brixham, and in Jessica Stock and Lindsey Harrison, we have two people who will put the interests of the whole community ahead of self interest.
A resounding, and thoroughly well deserved victory for common sense.”
by mig46
Friday, March 22 2013, 10:02PM
“At last, now lets hope we can move on, and Tesco can proceed.”
by bethneyhoe
Friday, March 22 2013, 7:31PM
“Like brats leaving a sinking ship.”