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Local politics
By Charley Brinton | February 26, 2008
Recently, and for the first time in my life, I’ve got involved with local politics. Well, only so far as objecting to a very noisy and unpleasant bar/club across the street from us, extending their license to 2am weekdays and 4am weekends. We’ve been suffering with noise from this bar since it opened last Easter, and it was only when I heard about the license extension that I decided to contact the neighbours and get them to object as well. After doing a bit of an old fashioned mailshot to the houses on our street, it turned out quite a few people had had enough as well and we ended up setting up a bit of residents group. So it’s taken us 5 years and a license application from a bar for us to meet some of our immediate neighbours and find out what nice people they are too. Perhaps if we’d all been on My Neighbourhoods a year ago, we might have been able to stop the bar/club setting up home on our street to begin with! Oh, and we sort of won the fight with the license. They’ve been granted an extension but with so many conditions it’s not really worth it. It’s never straight forward with politics, local or otherwise, is it?
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