Thame Councillors Regret Loss Of Registration Service

THAME Town Councillors are angry over the removal of the weekly Registration Service from the town hall.
Cllr David Dodds called the move “a cost cutting excercise” and said that he felt particularly sorry for the bereaved who now would have to go elsewhere to register the death of their loved ones.
“This is nothing short of an appaling diminution of the service,” he said.
Cllr Owen Davies said that the move, which will see the service transferred to a computerised service, was discriminatory and asked: “Why should there be one rule for Henley (which keeps its Satellite Registration Service) and another for Thame?”
Thame’s County Cllr, Nick Carter, said that he had lobbied hard against the move, but regrettably, had lost.
He explained that a national computerised system was to begin within the next month and that Oxfordshire had no option but to implement the new system which, he said, would be cheaper.
“The decision is painful and contentious,” he said, “but that’s the way it is.”

Cllr Carter was the only one to abstain from the vote, which saw all other councillors support Cllr Dodds’s Motion “That this council regrets the withdrawal of the Registration Service from Thame.”