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TORIES & UKVILLAGES RESCUE SUMMER FETES

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TORIES & UKVILLAGES RESCUE SUMMER FETES
By UK Villages , 26 Aug 2010

THAT great summer institution, the garden fete, is about to be rescued from costly red tape.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles will tomorrow host a bureaucracy-busting summit where officials from Whitehall, councils and communities will think of ways to slash rules that endanger the events.
The meeting comes after Mr Pickles vowed in the Sunday Express to stop health and safety zealots turning “summer fun into a form-filling nightmare”.
High on the hit list are road closure fees which can leave fete planners forking out anything up to £2,000.
Mr Pickles also wants to see an end to the “Orwellian bureaucracy” of insurance forms and applications needing five different licences to hold a street party.
He said: “Community events are a good, fun way to get to know your neighbour but they are smothered with red tape. I want a simple approach to community events. Of course we want councils to exercise due diligence when it comes to health and safety but common sense must prevail.”
UKVillages spearheaded the crusade to keep fetes free from Labour’s “tick box” mentality.

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It's clear which side your Tory bread is buttered on. How about showing some concern over the 1 million people Cameron has pitched on the dole rather than a local Sloanie tea party.
By Dave, 17 Nov 2010

Summer fetes before every one gets carried away with how simple it is to organsie a fete they should look in to the details I have been one of the organiser of our small village carnival.Under this surposed simple one form there is still a lot of work to be done filling in a lot of red tape.You are not allowed to advertise the event in the paper have people at your fete making a profit. As far as the road closure go you still have to pay for road managment which can be very costly
By Shaun Andrews, 21 Sep 2010

I travel around rural Lincolnshire consistently and everywhere I go I hear of local events and fetes being cancelled because of red tape and appalling costs. I don't know who started this trend but it needs ending soon, before most if not all small local events are lost forever. The great thing about there events, apart from bringing communities together, is that they, more often than not, cost little or nothing to thse who attend them.
By John Gage, 19 Sep 2010

i never knew how difficult and intense it had become,since the labour government made it so,to hold a simple village fete.what is the worse that can go wrong?children know not to run into the road,and if one falls and grazes his knee,then dettol,a lump of cotton wool,and a plaster would suffice.labour,a worrying,panicking,paranoid pack of unadventurous extremists?they certainly are!several licences for street events?the 1977 queen's jubilee street party we had went without a hitch,and the garden party for charles and di's wedding,oh,and no-one died by tossing a pancake either,running or not.
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