East Cowes is bustling!
World-famous as the home of Queen Victoria’s Osborne House, East Cowes is moving ahead.
The first Town Meeting is due on Thursday 3/4/08 at 7pm in the Town Hall.
All local residents are invited to share hopes and ideas for the town’s future.
East Cowes is also well-known for its industrial history, most famously for inventor Sir Christopher Cockerell, who developed and manufactured hundreds of Hovercraft for over 20 years until the early 1980s.
GKN painted the Columbine shed doors with a giant Union Jack to commemorate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. An earlier giant of British industrial history, Saunders Roe, had built the shed to manufacture their range of sea planes, including the largest ever metal seaplane The Princess.
Home now to a Heritage Centre, and the Island 2000 Trust, the town is on the verge of exciting new advances. Major redevelopments of aging industrial areas have been in progress.
town meeting
Margaret Prior, Mayor of East Cowes, said “This Town Meeting is a chance for local people to make our town more sustainable and resilient to the changes ahead. We want everyone to contribute. I am very excited about this initiative and look forward to meeting people on 3rd April at 7pm in our Town Hall.”
Vav Simon, currently heading the Transition Island group, said “We are encouraging people in the community to start forming local groups to discuss these issues. Rather than waiting for Government or big business to sort it out, we need to make a start for ourselves.”
meeting method
The Transition Town model offers a method for everyone to have a say, and see the range of concerns and opportunities arising. It is not unusual for hundreds of comments to come out of such a meeting.
The meeting will start with a talk by Winston Churchill award winner Lois Prior on ‘Zen and the Art of Sustainability’. The Town Council will also explain their work.
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