You have to admire Wilmslow folk. Their capacity for reading, absorbing and analysing important facts is peerless.
You could probably select any four residents chosen at random and win University Challenge by a country mile. Wilmslow’s a kind of suburban Bletchley Park.
Take for instance the revised Wilmslow Vision, a draft proposal which will shape the town’s future for the next 20 years with plans for boosting the town centre environment, improving transport connections and priorities for investment in the town’s infrastructure.
It’s a huge agenda by any standard, which will affect the lives of every Wilmslow resident. The public consultation on its contents took place during April and May following widespread condemnation of previous proposals. So it’s vital to get this one right.
The revised document was published on Wednesday, November 15, which was the first opportunity residents had to absorb the facts. By November 19 Wilmslow Town Council was ready to consider adopting the plan.
That, my friends, is some feat. More than 26,000 residents reading, digesting and analysing a 20-year plan of monumental significance. Even in this age of information technology that is one impressive achievement.
It took Macclesfield residents a month to read the new parking restrictions on Cumberland Street and it only has a dozen words. The Wilmslow Vision is a publication of immense consequence and the Town Council gave residents four days to review it before considering its adoption.
You have to take your hat off to Wilmslow people they have extraordinary analytical powers. A 20-year plan, shaping the town and its infrastructure with huge significance to property prices and the green belt all assessed in four days.
I have but one question: How did you do it?
