Emails and Music

You know, if you hadn’t worked out I’m keen on mailing my local paper, I’d be very surprised.

Very surprised.

Especially after the fact that I managed to mail both the Brentwood Gazette, and the Brentwood Weekly News, last week.

Well …

The Gazette’s published the one I sent them.

Hopefully, I’ll get the one to the Weekly News as well … !

It’d be nice to see if I can pull off the double … !

But just so you know, here’s the ones I fired off last week.

And here’s the text of the one I sent to the Gazette, last night.

Dear Sir,

I’ve got to admit, I read the article about the deferment of the planned development on the former Highwood site with quite a bit of interest.

I was actually at that same meeting of Brentwood Council’s Planning Committee, the night the Saint James Road application got turned down: after all, I was the token objector, on the night.

And I’m wondering exactly what conditions on the Highwood site were proving to be a problem.

I’m willing to bet it’ll be the same problems as here on Rollason Way.

Inadequate parking.

A lack of play-space for the children in the area.

And not enough public transport for the locals who can’t drive

All I can do, now, is hope that the committee ignores some of the dafter edicts of central government — the coalition will have some, I think, as many as the last one — and insist that enough parking and playgrounds are included.

Unlike around here.

I also hope that — if Joanna Killian does accept a pay-cut — Brentwood council spends the money on a Compulsory Purchase Order.

That patch of ground in Saint James Road that now isn’t going to be flats, would make a nice small park for me and my neighbours.

I’ll admit, I’m hoping.

But I’m very sceptical.

Yours,

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And just in case you were curious about what I was listening to, while I was writing that lot … ?

Well …

You can pick up Gary Numan’s first album, Replicas, from iTunes, and the assorted works of Alexander Blu from either his site, or from Jamendo. For free: it’s under a Creative Commons License: something I use for the Teasers and 60-question-sets.

Enjoy them.

Free music for professional licensing