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pamelaareynolds
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Posted: Wed Apr 2nd, 2008 09:02 am |
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From: Pamela Reynolds [mailto:pamelareynolds@saltairevillage.info]
Sent: 02 April 2008 09:55
To: [url=mailto:'rosie.winterton@dft.gsi.gov.uk']'rosie.winterton@dft.gsi.gov.uk'[/url]
Subject: Saltaire bypass proposals - concerns documented on UNESCO linked Saltaire Village Website
To: Rosie Winterton, Transport Minister
Dear Ms Winterton
I understand that you are meeting with Councillor Anne Hawkesworth regarding the proposed bypass to Saltaire on Friday 4 April.
As a community, we are strongly against the bypass proposal. I manage the Saltaire Village website which is linked to by UNESCO and receives many thousands of hits per week. It has over 1,500 pages and is interactive. The website is completely staffed by volunteers. Those concerned to protect Saltaire do not necessarily live in Saltaire, but appreciate the importance of its World Heritage status. Consideration of any scheme which would damage this site is beyond the remit of local opinion.
Last year I attended a meeting where Philip Davies, Conservative MP met with people to discuss the bypass proposals. The meeting was well attended. However, Philip Davies did not consider the views of local and non-local culturally aware people. The meeting served as a platform for him to expound his ideology of “personal choice” and cars as “aspirational” and the need for more roads to accommodate them. His views were completely devoid of consideration for Saltaire as a World Heritage site and of the need to think creatively to solve traffic problems around such a site, in a climate of global warming and finite fuel.
I have also been hugely disappointed with Anne Hawkesworth’s responses (or lack of response) to genuine, reasoned queries about the bypass proposals. Denys Salt, the great grandson of Sir Titus Salt who founded this village, wrote to Anne Hawkesworth expressing his concerns. Her response was dismissive and ignorant.
The correspondence is detailed below. You can also find information documented on our village website from the informed source of the Saltaire Village Society, regarding the bypass proposals: http://www.saltairevillage.info/Protect_Saltaire_0002.html As you can see, the information is not founded on irrational, ill-informed thought or feeling. We are committed to preserving the integrity of Saltaire. It is of historic and cultural value to a global audience, now and for the future. Individuals like Philip Davies and Anne Hawkesworth do not have the understanding or status to make appropriate recommendations or judgments about such important issues concerning a World Heritage Site.
I do hope that this information is meaningful to you.
Kindest regards
Pamela Reynolds, team member
http://www.saltairevillage.info
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From: Denys Salt
Sent: 17 February 2008 10:29
To: Cllr Anne Hawkesworth
Cc: pamelareynolds@saltairevillage.info
Subject: Proposed Saltaire By-Pass
Dear Councellor Hawkesworth
I have been following the proposed plans for the Saltaire bypass, which I understand you support, with growing alarm and astonishment The idea of a single
carriage way running under Shipley and Saltaire through the Leeds/Liverpool Canal Conservation Area seems to me entirely misplaced and bound to be ineffective.
What seems to have been entirely overlooked is the fact that Saltaire is a WORLD HERITAGE SITE and there is a national obligation to protect and preserve it.
As such this is not just a local matter . There are also other issues at stake e.g. environmental damage, noise pollution etc. I sincerely hope that a reappraisal of the proposed scheme can be undertaken in the light of the above reservations.
Yours sincerely
Denys Salt (Great-grandson of Sir Titus Salt)
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From: Cllr Anne Hawkesworth [mailto:anne.hawkesworth@bradford.gov.uk]
Sent: 18 February 2008 11:39
To: Denys Salt; Christine Kerrin; Steve Barton
Cc: pamelareynolds@saltairevillage.info
Subject: RE: Proposed Saltaire By-Pass
The council will not support any actions which would endanger the status of the World Heritage site ----Once more there appears to be a case of scaremongering
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From: Pamela Reynolds [mailto:pamelareynolds@saltairevillage.info]
Sent: 18 February 2008 11:55
To: Cllr Anne Hawkesworth
Subject: RE: Proposed Saltaire By-Pass
Dear Cllr Anne Hawkesworth
People are taking the time to attend meetings, read about this issue, and write to you with their thoughts. The emails which have been copied to me have been reasoned and follow email etiquette of salutation and signature.
Your remark is dismissive and appears angry. Your attitude is ignorant and rude. This is the type of communication which upsets people and diminishes their trust in officials. However, it will make a quote for publication, for which I thank you.
Yours sincerely
Pamela Reynolds
http://www.saltairevillage.info
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From: Cllr Anne Hawkesworth [mailto:anne.hawkesworth@bradford.gov.uk]
Sent: 18 February 2008 13:31
To: Pamela Reynolds
Cc: John Blackburn
Subject: RE: Proposed Saltaire By-Pass
I was not intending to be dismissive ---I use e mail as a quick form of communication-The message is however that I care very much about the retention of the WHS designation .As a council we have been completely honest and there has been no attempt to sweep anything under the carpet --
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From: Pamela Reynolds [mailto:pamelareynolds@saltairevillage.info]
Sent: 18 February 2008 14:58
To: 'Cllr Anne Hawkesworth'
Subject: RE: Proposed Saltaire By-Pass
Dear Cllr Hawkesworth
Thank you for your email. Email is a legitimate and legal form of communication.
I am sure you will receive emails and letters expressing concern about the proposed Saltaire bypass. It is worrying that you did not follow ordinary office protocol of issuing a standard and courteous reply. If you did not intend to be dismissive, then you really are operating at a disadvantage as your email could not be understood to be anything other than dismissive coupled with an implicit insult.
Corporations and institutions do have minimum standards of etiquette and I do not accept that your email to Mr. Denys Salt was appropriate. Public servants must, surely, have a responsibility to communicate with the public in an accountable (i.e. with electronic signature) and courteous manner. Your response to Mr. Denys Salt who, as the great grandson of Sir Titus Salt, has Saltaire’s interest at heart and has profound knowledge of its history and cultural importance, was unforgivable. I have also written to you, without response. That appears preferable.
Your explanation of being “honest” does not address the problem of someone with a different point of view expressing concern.
Yours sincerely
Pamela Reynolds
http://www.saltairevillage.info
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