Oakham and Uppingham bid to be part of Mary Portas scheme

Item 14. PORTAS REVIEW (Cllr Alf Dewis)
To resolve to support the Oakham Town Partnership in their submission under thePortas Review



At this weeks Town Council Meeting Clr Alf Dewis Chairman of The Oakham Partnership is seeking support to bid for £84,000 "to revive the flagging high streets".of Oakham and Uppingham. Although the bid has been submitted Cllr Dewis and other Cllrs who are members of the Town Partnership thought it might be a good idea to seek the support of the full council. As usual it is the councils job to rubber stamp something that has already been decided, by the second council. I wonder what would happen to the bid if Oakham Town Council decided not to support the bid?

The bid video is certainly very depressing, I am not sure if this is caused by the poor quality commentary
provided by Cllr John Nowell

Mary might like to visit and revamp our tired and dated council and partnership. I can't believe Uppingham has teamed up with Oakham, Uppignham leaves our town standing on many issues.

The Big Society, The new after school project, the list goes Uppingham does it well.

Oakham can organise a couple of  good boot sales and throw £10,000 in community grants at the same old organisations in which they have connections   Unlike Uppingham the majority of local shops and business's don't support The Town Partnership. "fed up with years of consultation" "there are two many councillor on the committee who are involved in so many other organisations"

The Chamber of Commerce folded for this very same reason.

After Rutland County Council pulled the plug on funding the Partnership, I think if the Town Partnership should have  folded, then Cllrs could have  channelled their efforts through the Town Council and just maybe Oakham Town Council might earn some credibility with the wider community.

Of course they would have to clear out a few of the Cllrs who enjoy earning harassment orders.

It never fails to surprise me, what Uppigham Council Achieves, it operates on with  fraction of the income from council tax, Oakham Town Council spends 80% on just running the council.

Oakham Town Council is also very good at organising a very good nosh up and booze up using tax payers funds and calling a civic event. "a good day for me and family and the town" said our good Mayor if she had invited people from grant awarding bodies then maybe it could have been considered a good day for Oakham.