Comments on: People power http://clinicallyfedup.com/?p=2125 (but I have a nice camera) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike Ogilvie http://clinicallyfedup.com/?p=2125&cpage=1#comment-1142 Mike Ogilvie Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:52:25 +0000 http://clinicallyfedup.com/?p=2125#comment-1142 Hiya Nikkii, I sent you a full reply via Facebook but I remember all those shops, and I think at one time 3 paper shops existed as there was one where the Scone Arms pool table is now!!!! I also remember Ernie Miller @ the Spar doing home deliveries FOC for pensioners, not a bad wee enterprise me thinks! I might be wrong here but about 15 years ago they upgraded the sewage system in Scone, however PKC clearly stated at the time although it had been improved was running at full capacity so no new developments (housing) were to be granted permissions, only new builds on existing plots yet lo and behold a whole new estate at the old mill appears? Do all the residents in those houses suffer severe constipation or has the system been upgraded again???? Or was it another case of the dastardly brown envelope and the councillor! Hiya Nikkii, I sent you a full reply via Facebook but I remember all those shops, and I think at one time 3 paper shops existed as there was one where the Scone Arms pool table is now!!!! I also remember Ernie Miller @ the Spar doing home deliveries FOC for pensioners, not a bad wee enterprise me thinks! I might be wrong here but about 15 years ago they upgraded the sewage system in Scone, however PKC clearly stated at the time although it had been improved was running at full capacity so no new developments (housing) were to be granted permissions, only new builds on existing plots yet lo and behold a whole new estate at the old mill appears? Do all the residents in those houses suffer severe constipation or has the system been upgraded again???? Or was it another case of the dastardly brown envelope and the councillor!

]]> By: mrsw http://clinicallyfedup.com/?p=2125&cpage=1#comment-1137 mrsw Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:40:46 +0000 http://clinicallyfedup.com/?p=2125#comment-1137 Nah - actually that applies to people who have lived here forever too - if they live in one of the new developments they really have no grounds at all to protest any further expansion of the village - they are only protecting their equity and it's pure hypocrisy on their part to fly an environmental banner. I now have a list of the SCoPE steering committee members and nearly choked laughing on seeing the woman who runs the local SPAR is on the list - quelle surprise - and I bet she has the environment at the forefront of her concerns (yeah RIGHT!). Another two members were formerly on the local Community Council which resigned en masse after the local authority criticised them for not running their affairs properly - so SCoPE - elected and representative of the village? That would be a no. Nah – actually that applies to people who have lived here forever too – if they live in one of the new developments they really have no grounds at all to protest any further expansion of the village – they are only protecting their equity and it’s pure hypocrisy on their part to fly an environmental banner. I now have a list of the SCoPE steering committee members and nearly choked laughing on seeing the woman who runs the local SPAR is on the list – quelle surprise – and I bet she has the environment at the forefront of her concerns (yeah RIGHT!).

Another two members were formerly on the local Community Council which resigned en masse after the local authority criticised them for not running their affairs properly – so SCoPE – elected and representative of the village? That would be a no.

]]> By: mrsw http://clinicallyfedup.com/?p=2125&cpage=1#comment-1136 mrsw Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:35:17 +0000 http://clinicallyfedup.com/?p=2125#comment-1136 Scone, when it was smaller and as you well remember Mike! used to sustain... Mace, Farquharson's, Spar, Ritchie's, Kennoway's Baker, 2 butchers, the Proudfoot's van, the fish man, Cathy Dow's, The Cafe AND the Park Shop (not to mention numerous ice cream vans) and that was just FOOD. I have a vague remembrance that the Coffee Pot/Peach River premises may once have been a Co-Op too. We had two newsagents, two petrol stations, one extra pub and a nightclub that drew people from all over Scotland. Tis all gone now. Consumption patterns have changed, we are now much bigger yet have LESS choice. The first person to contact me was a former neighbour. She's in her 80s now and cannot walk to Spar, she can't afford anything when she gets there anyway! Her and her husband have to drive to Perth to shop. Not only do the shops here stock very little, they charge twice the flippin price! Everyone who has appriached me from young Mums to pensioners desperately want this supermarket. Yes I think Scone and everywhere north as far as Blairgowrie and everywhere this side of the Tay can adequately sustain one (and a new secondary school if you ask me - but people rarely do). You have touched on a point my next letter covers - why exactly does Scone deserve special consideration? The communities of Letham, Craigie and Muirton had thriving local shops before Tesco and Asda arrived - and surprise surprise they still DO. It's just NIMBY at its worst. Scone, when it was smaller and as you well remember Mike! used to sustain… Mace, Farquharson’s, Spar, Ritchie’s, Kennoway’s Baker, 2 butchers, the Proudfoot’s van, the fish man, Cathy Dow’s, The Cafe AND the Park Shop (not to mention numerous ice cream vans) and that was just FOOD. I have a vague remembrance that the Coffee Pot/Peach River premises may once have been a Co-Op too. We had two newsagents, two petrol stations, one extra pub and a nightclub that drew people from all over Scotland. Tis all gone now. Consumption patterns have changed, we are now much bigger yet have LESS choice. The first person to contact me was a former neighbour. She’s in her 80s now and cannot walk to Spar, she can’t afford anything when she gets there anyway! Her and her husband have to drive to Perth to shop. Not only do the shops here stock very little, they charge twice the flippin price! Everyone who has appriached me from young Mums to pensioners desperately want this supermarket. Yes I think Scone and everywhere north as far as Blairgowrie and everywhere this side of the Tay can adequately sustain one (and a new secondary school if you ask me – but people rarely do).

You have touched on a point my next letter covers – why exactly does Scone deserve special consideration? The communities of Letham, Craigie and Muirton had thriving local shops before Tesco and Asda arrived – and surprise surprise they still DO.

It’s just NIMBY at its worst.

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