Sussex residents plan street parties for royal wedding (From The Argus)
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Sussex residents plan street parties for royal wedding
5:30pm Monday 27th December 2010 in News By Tim Ridgway
PARTY: Residents are planning street parties to mark the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton
Thousands of people across Sussex are already preparing to take to the streets for the royal wedding.
Residents up and down the county are in discussions about arranging street parties to celebrate the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton.
Experts believe the scale of the festivities is predicted to match or exceed those held to mark the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer.
They say that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter will make it easier for organisers to keep in touch and ask for help.
But councils are warning people to ensure they apply early for the relevant paperwork which allows them to legally close their roads.
Residents in Osborne Villas, Hove, are among the first to begin plans for an event.
Resident Robert Nemeth, 30, said: “It is a friendly street anyway and everyone I have spoken to sees this as a great way to be even more neighbourly. I can't wait.”
About 10 million people nationally attended street parties to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977.
Chris Gettings, director of campaign group Streets Alive, believes a similar number will replicate the festivities on April 29.
A Brighton and Hove City Council spokeswoman confirmed it was expecting to have some guidance for residents on what to do in the New Year.
In the case of two-tier councils, the responsibility of road closure orders could fall on either the county or the borough/district authority.
Worthing Borough Council said all applications must be made at least 30 working days before the event and urged any group to take out public liability insurance to provide cover.
Lewes District Council requests eight weeks while Mid Sussex District Council asked for six weeks so it could consult with police and other bodies.
An Eastbourne Borough Council spokesman said: “If a number of similar requests for road closures are received at the same time the six week time-scale could be longer.
“We would like to stress that to avoid disappointment please leave plenty of time for your application to be processed.”
For more details email contact@streetsalive.org.uk or call 0117 922 5708.
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Comments(26)
cricketpicket
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8:15pm Mon 27 Dec 10
EroThraX
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8:56pm Mon 27 Dec 10
Ballroom Blitz wrote:Gone Mad? I would say that it's quite the opposite.
Not in our street if I have anything to do with it.
Why? Has the whole country gone mad?
People have been hosting street parties for royal events for yonks, this is nothing new.
In the sticks
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10:03pm Mon 27 Dec 10
cricketpicket wrote:Where? Just above the neck?
Should the top of this photo have been cut off before printing?
cricketpicket
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10:16pm Mon 27 Dec 10
In the sticks wrote:I'll set them up....
cricketpicket wrote:Where? Just above the neck?
Should the top of this photo have been cut off before printing?
withn
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11:04pm Mon 27 Dec 10
It's a shame really as the brace on his lower teeth could give way anytime.
This pair are distantly related too (discussion on previous royal family thread).
lordenglandofsussex
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12:23am Tue 28 Dec 10
Ballroom Blitz wrote:What a little British hater you are. Go suck on red and black tricolour.
Not in our street if I have anything to do with it.
Why? Has the whole country gone mad?
Angryoldman
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6:38am Tue 28 Dec 10
Red tape will ruin any attempt to have a little party in your street for sure.
The council will for a huge charge have to send inspectors to check your bunting or lights. Environmental health to check the ingredients of the old biddies rock cakes to make sure their nut free, and cooked in inspected kitchens. Hoards of overpaid and unnecessary officials to make sure you are inviting every creed race and religion in the correct numbers. You will be labelled a racist if you don’t.
The whole thing is going to be a nightmare to arrange purely because those at the town hall will make it a nightmare.
They always wheel a couple of royals out for a wedding when the country is on its knees. Its meant to make us all feel better. Its a con that works for the stupid public. And i will be sick to the stomach having it rammed down my throat on the TV and in every paper from now till then and after.
The whole thing is a social experiment to fool the gullible public as they lose their NHS and welfare state and jobs.
Bleat bleat bleat " all in this together" bleat, bleat bleat, bleat. Royal baby name competition. bleat bleat bleat.
adorable
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8:21am Tue 28 Dec 10
Chrstmas was expensive enough just buying the basics.
Ballroom Blitz
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10:32am Tue 28 Dec 10
lordenglandofsussex wrote:British hater? Not at all.
Ballroom Blitz wrote: Not in our street if I have anything to do with it. Why? Has the whole country gone mad?What a little British hater you are. Go suck on red and black tricolour.
You are confusing that with a dislike of overprivileged royal parasites.
Not the same thing.
I have lived in this country all my life, and I am utterly sick of the fawning, deferential attitude that so many people exhibit when talking about this 'family'.
Luckily, I live in a country where it is my right to have whatever opinion I like. And that's why I would far rather live here than, say the USA.
Mr Tom Gimpe
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10:41am Tue 28 Dec 10
sussexbornandbred
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10:57am Tue 28 Dec 10
Ian B Brewers
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11:02am Tue 28 Dec 10
bucko_bebucko
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11:08am Tue 28 Dec 10
I it gets up their noses seeing royal street parties & flags flying - too bad, get over yourselves!
hunningham cunningham
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11:18am Tue 28 Dec 10
bucko_bebucko wrote:i fail to see how our flag could be deemed ''racist'........tot
"flying the flag" is deemed as "racist" by some very strange people -- i don't think people should take any notice of them. I it gets up their noses seeing royal street parties & flags flying - too bad, get over yourselves!
al rubbish! the only people who would spout such garbage are those that inwardly ''hate'' our country, dont get me wrong.......im no 'royalist' and sometmes i think some of them need a check/up from the neck/up and need a reality check with todays modern britain.......but i'll defend the right of any person in this country to fly the flag whenever they want without the interference of troublemakers!
sparky_2004
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11:43am Tue 28 Dec 10
Angryoldman wrote:Whilst I share your scepticism about our royal scroungers, you are wrong about the council and street parties, here at least.
"and urged any group to take out public liability insurance to provide cover"
Red tape will ruin any attempt to have a little party in your street for sure.
The council will for a huge charge have to send inspectors to check your bunting or lights. Environmental health to check the ingredients of the old biddies rock cakes to make sure their nut free, and cooked in inspected kitchens. Hoards of overpaid and unnecessary officials to make sure you are inviting every creed race and religion in the correct numbers. You will be labelled a racist if you don’t.
The whole thing is going to be a nightmare to arrange purely because those at the town hall will make it a nightmare.
They always wheel a couple of royals out for a wedding when the country is on its knees. Its meant to make us all feel better. Its a con that works for the stupid public. And i will be sick to the stomach having it rammed down my throat on the TV and in every paper from now till then and after.
The whole thing is a social experiment to fool the gullible public as they lose their NHS and welfare state and jobs.
Bleat bleat bleat " all in this together" bleat, bleat bleat, bleat. Royal baby name competition. bleat bleat bleat.
All you have to do is get a 'road closure' pack, and fill in one side of an A4 sheet.
Details on how to make your own signs etc are included. This is free. There are no inspections per se, and £5m liability insurance will cost approx £80. The only charge that may occur is if parking regs need changing - but then that's charged by a private company, so no surprise there!
I love Sussex
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12:18pm Tue 28 Dec 10
Angryoldman wrote:This is a fabulously accurate post. Love it
"and urged any group to take out public liability insurance to provide cover"
Red tape will ruin any attempt to have a little party in your street for sure.
The council will for a huge charge have to send inspectors to check your bunting or lights. Environmental health to check the ingredients of the old biddies rock cakes to make sure their nut free, and cooked in inspected kitchens. Hoards of overpaid and unnecessary officials to make sure you are inviting every creed race and religion in the correct numbers. You will be labelled a racist if you don’t.
The whole thing is going to be a nightmare to arrange purely because those at the town hall will make it a nightmare.
They always wheel a couple of royals out for a wedding when the country is on its knees. Its meant to make us all feel better. Its a con that works for the stupid public. And i will be sick to the stomach having it rammed down my throat on the TV and in every paper from now till then and after.
The whole thing is a social experiment to fool the gullible public as they lose their NHS and welfare state and jobs.
Bleat bleat bleat " all in this together" bleat, bleat bleat, bleat. Royal baby name competition. bleat bleat bleat.
withnoname
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1:29pm Tue 28 Dec 10
Although we are in the midst of a recession,I don,t see why people shouldn,t celebrate such a wonderful occassion even on a shoestring.
When we won WW1 do you think the then public worried about all the extravagances that we take for granted today.I doubt it.Money was tight then but it didn,t stop them having a good time and I dare say patriotism will play very much a part in these celebrations for the fact the Monarchy,are the very establishment that keeps this country ticking over.Without them,we would not generate the revenue to keep tourism and good old blighty going.
Good for those who choose to celebrate.Shows we are not all party poopers.
Granny
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1:50pm Tue 28 Dec 10
lordenglandofsussex
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1:55pm Tue 28 Dec 10
Ballroom Blitz wrote:Of course you right and are entitled to your opinion but surely the Royal Family are the least of our problems in this country! I was never an ardent Royalist but now I see them as the last bastion of Britishness when so much has been stolen from us as a native people. They represent one of the last patches of grass that the enemies of this country, from within, cannot !*!@ on.
lordenglandofsussex wrote:British hater? Not at all.
Ballroom Blitz wrote: Not in our street if I have anything to do with it. Why? Has the whole country gone mad?What a little British hater you are. Go suck on red and black tricolour.
You are confusing that with a dislike of overprivileged royal parasites.
Not the same thing.
I have lived in this country all my life, and I am utterly sick of the fawning, deferential attitude that so many people exhibit when talking about this 'family'.
Luckily, I live in a country where it is my right to have whatever opinion I like. And that's why I would far rather live here than, say the USA.
RoddyG
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1:58pm Tue 28 Dec 10
whatevernext?
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3:41pm Tue 28 Dec 10
adorable wrote:Oh dear, there's always someone wants to blame 'they..'
How I agree with theangryoldman. If they want us to celebrate this wretched event then they should pay us to do so as we have little enough to live on anyway. Chrstmas was expensive enough just buying the basics.
If you can't afford better than just basics, why not work more hours??
Or stock a wider range and increase your turnover??
Morpheus
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4:29pm Tue 28 Dec 10
Christophe Hawtree
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4:52pm Tue 28 Dec 10
peter pumpkineater
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1:02am Wed 29 Dec 10
Are those actual people, or an early, but very rough attempt by Madame Tussauds for next year's halloween celebrations?
Anyone got a handful of sugar cubes
they look hungry!
Ballroom Blitz
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11:53am Wed 29 Dec 10
RoddyG wrote:Wrong.
BallroomBlitz sounds like a bitter old party pooper. Sad really but more to be pitied than scorned.
I love a party.
I don't have any time for the sponging royal family though.
Two entirely different things.
Ballroom Blitz says...
7:37pm Mon 27 Dec 10
Why? Has the whole country gone mad?