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Pompey Politics Podcast

Empty VESLs make most noise

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5.04 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

A day late, and fighting technical issues and human error, Ian and Simon review the goals, own or otherwise from last week's Full Council Meeting. Should the council be investing £120m into a new housing development, should the council be in the business of changing road classifications, should the council do something about landlord licensing, and is the sunflower scheme a good idea?

Transcript

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0:00.0

The time is 6.27 p.m.

0:03.5

And welcome at the second attempt to the Pompey Politics Podcast.

0:10.9

Blue and yellow till we die. I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

0:13.8

And I'm Simon Sandsbury. You've been going then.

0:30.9

Oh, I'm... So, a breathing a sigh of relief after fighting the technical issues yesterday.

0:33.0

Yes.

0:36.9

Yes, Fat Larry's band summed it up, didn't they?

0:38.9

Zoom.

0:46.7

Ah, so dear listener, oblique listeners, apologies.

0:55.6

There was all sorts of technical difficulties which you can enjoy listening to Simon flapping and gasping like a fish out of water on the podcast.

1:02.0

But today we shall press on with our review of the seven hours of Exotica that was the Portsmouth Full Council meeting on Tuesday.

1:05.3

Yes.

1:06.2

Simon, what was the what was on the undercard?

1:10.4

What was the first fight into the was on what was on what was the what was the what was the first

1:12.8

fight into the thing well there were there were lots of things this lots of things discussed

1:17.1

but the things that we really wanted to talk to were the report back from the report back

1:22.9

from the housing cabinet portfolio basically talking about the redevelopment of

1:28.5

Lemington and Horatio House and the proposal to basically not, well, take those down

1:35.1

and replace them. And there was a motion regarding actually getting some questions out

1:41.1

of Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, which it seems odd that the council didn't seem to be able to get questions to, sorry, answers to questions about whether cuts to Somers Town Fire Station, South South South-Southy Fire Station, how much that had actually impacted safety in the city.

2:01.4

There was a big fruori about the classification of a road.

2:06.2

And then the interesting motion where there was nice peace and harmony was about actually accepting the council accepting to go for

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