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Good business, not ‘for sale’ signs
• YOUR correspondent seems not to have realised the silly season is over (‘For sale’ signs next? September 18).
Suggesting that the modest amount of money the council might realise through limited business sponsorship could have any sizeable impact on council tax shows he is either deluded or wilfully ignorant of council finance.
Either way he shouldn’t believe everything he reads.
For the record, the council has no intention of selling off parks nor covering them with “huge hoardings”.
We are constantly approached by people wanting to work with us and share in the council’s success and,
as my colleague Councillor Ralph Scott has stated, we see no objection in principle of “doing business with business” where it can be of mutual support and benefit.
We would, of course, consult local friends groups, conservation area committees and councillors before coming to any agreement on local sponsorship, but can anyone really object to, say, the London Marathon now being called The Flora Marathon, or to Arsenal players shirts bearing the Fly Emirates logo?
A far cry from the erection of “huge hoardings”!
CLLR FLICK REA
Executive Member for Culture
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