On the Campaign's behalf Susan Marsh has been having an exchange of email correspondence over recent weeks in respect of our response to the consultation undertaken by MTCRC.

After a lot of thought we decided that our views hadn’t changed and the position we set out in Nick Laister's Proof of Evidence to the Local Plan Inquiry and the Masterplan remained as valid now as when we submitted them and decided that we would re submit them for consideration as our response.

Susan Marsh explains the Campaign's position further: "We have repeated our view that the consultation is flawed as it doesn’t request views on Dreamland, despite the site being owned by the company (in fact, it doesn't even mention Dreamland!), nor does it give any information about who MTCRC is and totally omits any closure date for responses. In fact it gives little information as to what the purpose of the consultation is."

This approach appears to have offended their representative as he makes the following comment:

“We note your assertions about our consultation’s validity and we are fully aware that you will beat the drum at the appropriate time to try and, what appears to be a desire to, discredit our findings.”

Despite their unhelpful stance we would still ask that you make your own responses. MTCRC has issued a flyer as part of its consultation on Dreamland (although, again, the flyer does not state that this is a consultation on Dreamland, nor does it provide any information on MTCRC, the company's assets in the town or what they are going to do with the results). It can be downloaded from the Save Dreamland website in PDF format (2.9 MB).

In other news, the Save Dreamland Photo Gallery, A Cavalcade of Photographs, has been updated with a vintage photograph of the famous Dreamland snail sent in by Paul Bolland and a colour photograph of Billie, the Dreamland loco, in 1974, courtesy of Nigel Hyde. Don't forget to visit our other Photo Galleries.

And whilst Campaign Leader Nick Laister was on the publicity trail for his new book, Pennies by the Sea, over the past couple of months, he managed to slip in a few references to the Campaign. Most notably, a slightly inaccurate story in the Guardian provided a little bit of unexpected publicity for the Campaign. It also came with a nice photo gallery. Nick, who is working on several seaside regeneration projects around the UK, also appeared live in the studio on BBC Radio Sheffield talking about his book and the changing face of British seaside resorts.

Finally, a big thank you to Dave Collard for his tireless work throughout 2006 in reviewing the local press and providing the news reports on this site. And thank you also to Paul Freeman who has been working behind the scenes on the Forum which, despite suffering some technical difficulties over the past few weeks, is now fully functioning again. The Forum is the best place to meet other Campaign members and discuss the future of Dreamland, so make sure you visit regularly. If you are not already a member, click here to join and you will be able to start posting straight away.