March held in bid to save cobbles in Beverley's market place

“Most of the whingers attached to this nonsense come from the recently built estate on the bypass that dares to call itself Molescroft and which most of the original Beverley residents consider to be the actual ruination of Beverley. Didn't see too many of them objecting to that monstrosity.NIMBY is the word that best describes these people, a cause for a cause's sake.Get a life, it's called progress and guess what? It is inevitable.”

“£2.5 million could be better spent, on maintaining the neglected road network for a start.”

“Come off it, so you think the regeneration would somehow take away Beverley's history?! It's there and won't change whatever road surface is put down even if it were flourescent pink gravel.

And who are the 'residents' you mention? All I saw protesting was a small group with kids and mothers grimly pushing buggies over the cobbles; somehow 'representative' of the silent masses?

Beverley must evolve organically. If you want it to mesh with it's 'mainly Gerorgian architecture' then I suppose you'd want to ban all forms of vehicular transport from Saturday Market? Compromise must be achieved and that involves modern materials which are asthetically pleasing. Stone setts might be pleasing but there are better alternatives.”

“So you'd like to see Beverley as a carbon copy of every dull, bland town with no history? You think coloured tarmac will fit into a mainly Georgian architectural backdrop?

This isn't pointless nimbyism, Nigel Leighton, Nigel Pearson and Parnaby don't give a damn what the residents of the town think. This is about a waste of resources, poor management and backscratching the few independent traders left in Beverley who quite frankly do nothing but whinge about big business but can't compete with them for customer service or price.
Some deserve to go under, I'm sick of seeing their sour faces in the local paper.”

“Beverleys 'cobbles' are a litmus of what these protesters want... to pickle Beverley in a period of time that suits their romantic view of the town. Beverley has evolved and changed to thrive and survive and the regeneration of Saturday Market must happen. The 'monstrous' Tesco has bedded into the town well enough and I bet all those NIMBY's now shop there. The joker who mourns the passing of the cattle market is oblivious to the fact that such markets were moving out of market towns all over the UK and relocated for entirely sensible reasons. Housing land must be found for future generations of young Beverlonians. It's no good having strived and bought a property pre-boom, sitting pretty, to now deny future generations just because you think it's getting overcrowded (when there are reasonable solutions to build on land). This argument is bigger than some petty little cobbles and is about an attitude of mind that towns like Beverley still need to change and move on, as it has done for hundreds of years. The simple fact is that Beverley is such a nice place no one has the right to 'bags it' as their own and not accept that such popularity will inevitabely attract more and more people to it.”

“So Mr Parnaby wants to rip em up just because some people don't like walking on them or some people don't like the effort of pushing a pram over them. What a weak pathetic excuse from the guy.. Who are these people who "dont like"?. Old chums of Mr Parnaby perhaps?..Thats if they actually exist at all. Even his claims that the setts are dangerous smacks of desperation. Exactly how many members of the public have been killed or maimed whilst walking these cobbles of death then?.
No wonder the majority dont trust him and the other councillors involved, because going by his reasons to carry out his obsession to decimate the square, it really does look like he has an agenda.
Keep it up protesters. You can hear Parnabys well over inflated ego going down like a squeaking balloon with the daft remarks he is using trying to justify the ripping up of the cobbles.”

“Spend £35,000 resurfacing the area with Tarmac and spend the rest on the potholes

report them here at Fix My Street - the can't wriggle out of saying they don't know anything about them, it in the public domain.

http://tinyurl.com/65x6kr”

“@Charleychuck: careful, lad, irony is usually lost on the green inkers who populate these boards. You could find your comments being taken seriously ;-)”

“"Also showing his support was Andrew Allison, Hull and East Riding co-ordinator of the Taxpayers' Alliance."

That's a good indicator of the type of folk behind this "protest". Barking Right Tories with a not-so-hidden neo-liberal anti-council agenda. Plus the usual retirees who really should join their local Get a Life club. It says an awful lot about the priorities of the bourgeois and petit-bourgeois burghers of Beverley that they can "protest" in their hundreds about something so irrelevant and petty.

Still, if you want to keep tradition, best dig up the tarmac roads and convert them back to rutted cart tracks...and if you don't like the rugged experience of ploughing through muddy ruts, do your shopping elsewhere.

""You will be surprised by the amount of people who will be willing to sit on the setts to stop the work going ahead." - ROTFL!! Shades of Arthur Dent lying in the squelching mud in front of the bulldozers whilst Vogons demolish the earth :)”

“the counsil spent lots of money making the streets pedestrianised in bevelry but the frost has made a lot of them shael off and its all uneven now some wise desicion that was its more dangerous than cobbles i would say”