Susan Jefferies

Last night the Parish Council re-elected Cllr Peter Haward as their Chairman for another year.

Cllr Haward has been an excellent Chairman for the last 4 years and we are delighted that he is prepared to be our Chairman for one further year. He has worked very hard, and effectively, in all aspects, the most important of which was his representation of the Village at the Examination in Public of the RSS (Regional Spatial Strategy) in Exeter a year ago.

He lead the team who rigorously defended the Corfe Mullen against the threat of the building of an additional 700 homes in the Village. Not I am afraid that the Panel took much account of what anyone who appeared before them said.

He will lead the Parish Council into a further year when we will take over responsibility for running the Village Hall from the exisitng volunteer committee.

One Parish Councillor disagreed. He has disagreed with everything that the Parish Council has done since he was elected a year ago. He has done nothing positive for the community, has offered assistance for nothing at all.

He has however wasted quite some Council time and wasted the time of the Parish Council staff. He has written a series of offensive and potentially libellous letters which have upset some of the more sensitive members of the Council.

I will support the democratic process until the day I die, however I do wonder if the residents who voted for this person, on the basis of remarks which were a tissue of lies, realise how little he has done for them.