The Government Department for Levelling and Rebuilding has explained why the Re-Imagine Dullbridge Bid (RIDBid) was rejected for funding earlier this year.
The RIDbid application, which was submitted by Sadgebore District Council in an attempt to gain funding to improve Dullbridge by planting a few trees, was cobbled together at the last minute and submitted together with schemes proposed for the towns of Cheese and Crapton Pallet.
The Dullbridge part of the scheme saw BeFuddled former Councillor Fencesitter and (Previously) Smalltown’s Most Popular Person (Dullbridge Public Enemy No.1) Cllr Jock McCads work together to come up with a number of uninspiring ideas which offered absolutely nothing in terms of regeneration but, instead, could have hastened the decline of the town, as it sought to limit traffic and remove car parking spaces from the Town centre and plant trees in their place.
Speaking after the submission Smalltown’s Missing Person, Tim Teepee, said he felt the RIDBid was unlikely to succeed and described it as “insipid and dull, rather like the people who put it together“. So it came as no surprise, except to the BeFuddled Party Councillors on Smalltown and Dullbridge (SaD) Town Council, when the scheme failed to attract Government support.
A Government spokesperson has now explained the reasoning behind the decision, saying “Well, it was crap, wasn’t it?”