{"id":295,"date":"2012-04-07T03:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T02:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/?p=295"},"modified":"2013-04-14T17:42:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T16:42:51","slug":"shopping-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/shopping-list\/","title":{"rendered":"A Political Shopping List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks ahead you may be wondering what to ask local politicians. \u00a0Here&#8217;s some things that you could ask about, in no particular order:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will you support the retention and improvements to residents parking at the Abbeylands end Dunbar High Street?<\/li>\n<li>What will you do to secure the Abbey Church from falling further into disrepair?<\/li>\n<li>What measures will you introduce to reduce traffic overall and slow down traffic?<\/li>\n<li>What measures will you be taking to restrict larger vehicles on the High Street, including regulating unloading times (9:00 til 5:00 only)?<\/li>\n<li>Would you support the development of a Good Neighbour Scheme for businesses to sign up to to increase harmony between business and residents interests?<\/li>\n<li>Will you support restrictions on late opening for certain shops and pubs (i.e. after 8:00pm and on Holidays and Sundays)?<\/li>\n<li>Will you support the establishment of \u00a0specimen trees to improve the High Street (as has been successfully done in North Berwick?)<\/li>\n<li>What measures will you do to improve standards of repairs to the pavement and road surfaces (repair the cobbles rather than let them degrade which seems to be the current policy?)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Will you support an\u00a0<\/span>increase of more visible policing to reduce low-level uncivil or antisocial behaviour:\u00a0(littering, boy racers, dog mess, ..)<\/li>\n<li>When will you introduce completely free station parking and additional off street parking for shoppers at the South end of the High Street?<\/li>\n<li>What measures do you propose to reduce traffic at congestion points (like the Co-op and Post office), and stop illegal parking and dangerous manouvres on the Abbeylands junction?<\/li>\n<li>Will you introduce extra disabled spaces?<\/li>\n<li>Will you oppose the new bus stop from being repositioned opposite the South bound one (if this goes ahead it will increase congestion, environmental and noise disturbance to residents?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks ahead you may be wondering what to ask local politicians. \u00a0Here&#8217;s some things that you could ask about, in no particular order:- Will you support the retention and improvements to residents parking at the Abbeylands end Dunbar High Street? What will you do to secure the Abbey Church from falling further into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/shopping-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Political Shopping List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1000,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/response-to-dunbar-traffic-regulation-order-proposals\/","url_meta":{"origin":295,"position":0},"title":"Response to Dunbar Traffic Regulation Order Proposals","author":"templar","date":"May 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I welcome that the council is consulting on these proposals. I have made comprehensive comments on the specific consultation questions and expressed a range of concerns about the proposals - sketchy though they are - first outlined in the Cabinet paper dated 29 March 2011.\u00a0I have annotated a dynamic map\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":801,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/proposed-waiting-and-loading-restrictions-in-dunbar-ensure-high-street-is-resident-parking-free-zone\/","url_meta":{"origin":295,"position":1},"title":"Proposed Waiting and Loading Restrictions in Dunbar ensure High Street is Resident Parking-Free Zone","author":"Barodunum","date":"February 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"East Lothian Council is recommending that the existing Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) for Dunbar be amended to reflect current parking behaviour and road use by residents and businesses.\u00a0A formal consultation letter has been sent out to statutory consultees. The Council would also like to gather the views of others with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Dunbar-Proposed-TRO","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/02\/Dunbar-Proposed-TRO.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/02\/Dunbar-Proposed-TRO.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/02\/Dunbar-Proposed-TRO.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":605,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/what-concerns-abbeylands-residents\/","url_meta":{"origin":295,"position":2},"title":"What concerns Abbeylands Residents?","author":"templar","date":"August 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We ran a small survey over the summer. Not the best time to get a good response rate, and not the largest sample, but we got a sufficient number of returns nonetheless and this has enriched the otherwise impressionistic picture of problems and issues that we have been building up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The problem with parking","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/05\/DSC_0288-001.jpg?fit=640%2C429&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/05\/DSC_0288-001.jpg?fit=640%2C429&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2012\/05\/DSC_0288-001.jpg?fit=640%2C429&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1192,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/improve-signposting-and-free-up-private-car-parking\/","url_meta":{"origin":295,"position":3},"title":"Improve signposting and free up private car parking","author":"templar","date":"September 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Parking availability in Dunbar isn't as bad as people make out. There are quite a few areas that are under-utilised and there are only a few problem areas. I've heard all the objections about the on street facilities, and frankly most of them don't warrant a great deal of attention.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Opinion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Opinion","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2022\/02\/image.png?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2022\/02\/image.png?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2022\/02\/image.png?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2022\/02\/image.png?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2022\/02\/image.png?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":287,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/initial-residents-group-meeting\/","url_meta":{"origin":295,"position":4},"title":"Initial residents group meeting","author":"templar","date":"March 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A few of us met at the Royal Mac on Thursday evening. Many thanks to those that could make it along. Its difficult to get along to evening meetings and many of you did report existing commitments and sent apologies and\/or comments. Thanks to you too.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1651,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/daft-dunbar\/","url_meta":{"origin":295,"position":5},"title":"Daft Dunbar","author":"templar","date":"February 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By the way - they're setts (regularised, squared off) not cobbles (irregular, round). I stand corrected. A muddled end of year spend a few years back has caused much synthetic rage and minor headaches for local transport officers. There was little or no consultation on the removal of most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/topics\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/03\/cobbles.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/03\/cobbles.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/03\/cobbles.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/03\/cobbles.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/files\/2013\/03\/cobbles.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}