philip

And is it still open or closed

Anybody hear the alarm bells orkney council has had to give the pickaquoy centre £700,000 just to keep it going. davie not much point in havin a meeting as the council seem hell bent on building cmv .but if you want we can meet and i will show you the replies that we got back from scottish arts council seeing as yours are lost.

I find this an odd post to say the least. Why would objectors be taken away? To see if we could change their minds when presented with a shiny new facility, when they have made it clear that its not the design they are against but more the related costs? Or are these the objectors to the project as a whole from outside the council - surely again not relevant in this instance at least. Its not a case of those that want it and those that don't anymore, as that case has been made and discussed and now, like it or not, it has gone through the council and a team is tasked to take the thing forward. Not councillors as I said, but a cross section project team, including Eddie Knight who is the culture representative for the council and as such spoke on the radio tonight. The rest are members of the SIC project team tasked with looking at all the issues in a practical sense both positive and negatives in the hope of providing the most effective design and delivering an effective facility in all senses of the word - yes including costs. The project team is that the same ones that were ment to get in touch with the SLRA last may? Ask Kathy Hubbard for the copys she got from the Scottish Arts Council before you reply.

Can anybody tell me if the councillors that are going to look at the cinemas are infavour of the new cinema-music-venue ? Or are there objectors going to? We would not want a bias opinion would we.