Second Report From Town Annual Meeting

CARRYING on from the presentation from the two Youth Councillors and discussion about possible sites for a shared community facility in Thame, councillors were asked for the latest information on the Cattle Market. It was explained that the final draft of the District Plan was awaited and that much hinged on the Farmers Mart wanting to leave the Cattle Market and moving to an alternative site. Sarah Hayes issued a reminder of a public meeting about the future of the Cattle Market Site, to be held at the town hall on June 20.
Cllr Adam Buckland, who is the town council?s representative on the Youth Council, thanked Ben and Archie and said: ?The energy that was in this room during that presentation was amazing. We want the Youth Council to engage youngsters from different groups of our community. If they can harness that energy, the Youth Council will go from strength to strength.?
The next speaker was Keith Slater, Chair of Thame and District Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Thame in the 21st Century Partnership Steering Group, who explained what had happened during the eight months since the Partnership was launched.
?At the beginning,? he explained, ?none of us had much of an idea of what we could not do, what we could do and how we could do it. We discovered that the money we had been given was to employ someone and that there were strict limitations on who that person should be, and that the