Ehringshausen Way and dogs in High Street can both stay
Wednesday, 25th June 2014.
Haverhill Town Councillors last night agreed to do nothing about two controversial issues raised at the annual town meeting by a borough councillor.
At the annual meeting Cllr Gordon Cox had urged that dogs should be banned from High Street and Queen Street to prevent dog fouling, and that the name of Ehringshausen Way should be changed to Jubilee Way because people could not spell it.
Items from the annual meeting are taken to the first town council meeting afterwards for consideration, but members were unimpressed with either idea.
Cllr Phillip French said he did not know what was happening currently on the town twinning front, but there was a Haverhill road sign in Ehringshausen, which is our German twin town.
He was disappointed that the former gateway signs to Haverhill which declared the twinning links had been taken away and replaced by new ones which did not.
Cllr Betty McLatchey said it would be grossly insulting to Haverhill's twin town to change the name.
On the dog issue, town mayor Cllr Roger Andre said dog behaviour was now covered by the anti-social behaviour Act, and was the responsibility of principla councils, and not parish or twon councils.
He thought a dog ban was completely unnecessary and would be impossible to enforce.
Cllr McLatchey said the High Street needed people in it and not anything that would discourage them visiting. Anyway, it was thye owners who were the problem, if one existed, not the dogs.
At the annual meeting Cllr Gordon Cox had urged that dogs should be banned from High Street and Queen Street to prevent dog fouling, and that the name of Ehringshausen Way should be changed to Jubilee Way because people could not spell it.
Items from the annual meeting are taken to the first town council meeting afterwards for consideration, but members were unimpressed with either idea.
Cllr Phillip French said he did not know what was happening currently on the town twinning front, but there was a Haverhill road sign in Ehringshausen, which is our German twin town.
He was disappointed that the former gateway signs to Haverhill which declared the twinning links had been taken away and replaced by new ones which did not.
Cllr Betty McLatchey said it would be grossly insulting to Haverhill's twin town to change the name.
On the dog issue, town mayor Cllr Roger Andre said dog behaviour was now covered by the anti-social behaviour Act, and was the responsibility of principla councils, and not parish or twon councils.
He thought a dog ban was completely unnecessary and would be impossible to enforce.
Cllr McLatchey said the High Street needed people in it and not anything that would discourage them visiting. Anyway, it was thye owners who were the problem, if one existed, not the dogs.
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