This week local business group Oakham Chamber of Trade suggested it should merge with Oakham Town Partnership, because of low membership.
How many more groups or committees does Rutland need?
Now they want to set up a group described as informal, to bash the traders at the West End of Oakham Town Centre.
Traders up the other end of town don't like how the west end looks . So today I took a look at the other end of Town and
concentrated on Mill Street . Swans owned by Cllr Peter Jones has a mix of signage. The street looks tidy, lots of high class outlets, another soon to open offering free canapes on the opening day.
Cllr Peter Jones was disappointed only 25 traders turned up to a meeting at Oakham Castle last week.
This meeting was organised originally as a public meeting and at the last minute the press announced online it was closed to the public.
Would it not be good to involve the residents of Oakham before any changes were made afterall they are the customers.
I feel this is an exercise once again for Rutland County Council to dictate what it wants for Oakham, not what the resident or traders require.
Also if you are a hard working independent trader the last thing you would want to do after a hard days work is sit and listen to a Councillor telling you, your shop is looking shabby.
