Parish Council Over-prevaricating

Over Parish Council will not allow a Public Open Forum at the start of their monthly meetings for parishioners to tell Councillors about anything of concern, without prior notification.
I told them their own professional advisers, Cambridge & Peterborough Association of Local Councils (CPALC), say it is recommended best practice – information that is available on their website for all to see.

All other local Parish Councils do this for their residents.
For nine months, since I made my request, Over Parish Council has prevaricated, provided wrong information and even had a Councillor telephone me to say how difficult it is for Councillors to get to the start of the meeting on time!

The time has come for Over Parish Council to either :

1. say ‘Yes’ and show that they are open, transparent, approachable, prepared to provide the same opportunity offered by other Councils and recommended as ‘best practice’ by their own Association;

2. say ‘No’ and leave us wondering what they are hiding.

Click on the '1 comment' link below to read comment from 'Anonymous', who is known to me but whose identity I have decided not to reveal.
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Head of Guided Busway - Student or Teacher?

Bob Menzies, head of Cambridgeshire’s ill-fated, overdue, over-budget guided bus project, is to fly to Australia for a four-day Urban Transport World 2010 conference in Sydney.

One wonders – is this for him to belatedly learn how it SHOULD have been done, or to teach the rest of the delegates how it SHOULDN’T be done?