Brilliant SOWAPs petition is now promotable (like fb ads) and someone has already paid for an ad. thanks!

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SOWAPPET001 - Save old Weymouth and Portland, inc old Weymouth high street - printable petition

A printable version of the petition is now available. If you want to really help us out, please print it out and ask local businesses to host it. I've allowed optimistically for 10 pages, please record the petition  hosts name at the top of each page, other info automatically printed (just a header) this will allow us to effectively track support and audit for duplicates etc. Thanks in advance

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HbHUFPXtFW2ya9sZFR4nVjxZIfn1b3Hy1I-wD6lDZoQ/edit?usp=sharing

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• Richard Brown ILMINSTER, UNITED KINGDOM

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  I was born in Weymouth in the 60s and still visit the town regularly though I moved away in the 90s. In that time I have seen many bad planning decisions with beautiful buildings and features disappearing in the name of "progress". Weymouth has an important history and story to tell and losing the old high street would be yet another nail in the coffin. Please leave something of the old Weymouth to inform and educate future generations and give Weymouthians something to be proud of.
• Gareth Hogan WEYMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM

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  I believe we should protect the past, save it for the future and keep these historic buildings in one piece.
• jacqueline reeve WEYMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM

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  Its important to preserve some of the history of this lovely town.
• Denise Quayle WEYMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM

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  Once gone can not be replaced
• Nicholas Webster DORCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

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  Historic treasures over profit!!! I am fed up with these 'private' developers wrecking important historical sites of importance.
• Simon Bennett DORCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

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  It needs to be saved
• Nicholas Webster DORCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM

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  Historic treasures over profit!!! I am fed up with these 'private' developers wrecking important historical sites of importance.
• Louise lisse MAIDENCOMBE, UNITED KINGDOM

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  I am a frequent visitor to Weymouth, and really appreciate the work done by Mark Vine and the Old Town Hall people for the conservation of the town's unique heritage. Heritage brings tourism and places of special Historical interest should be carefully preserved and investigated. Keep our English heritage alive_ it is what makes Dorset so unique.
• IAN WELTCH PORTSMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM

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  No more developments please. Enough is enough."

SOWAP-save old Weymouth high street - 500 signatures on petition, lets hit 1000 before the WPBC meeting @ Pavilion at 19:00 this Thursday

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SOWAP-save old Weymouth high street are at 500 signatures, great work guys, keep sharing.  Halfway to our first 1000 on the petition, hopefully we'll hit that after we're on BBC radio Solent http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiosolent 96.1 FM, 103.8 FM, 999 MW, 1359 MW, DAB (NOW South Hampshire), Breakfast from Dorset @ 07:40 tomorrow.

It would be great to have our first thousand before the WPBC council meeting at the Pavilion at 19:00 this Thursday.(please come) Our new short, easy to remember (and mention a lot) petition url  http://bit.do/sowap and a mention on the radio will get us even more supporters before the week is out... Please keep spamming friends, family and colleagues to join the group and sign the petition, it's a great cause.

I toured the site with some of the group earlier today after meeting to discuss the WPBC council meeting at the Pavilion. Terrible business. (business being the operative word)

 One of the old Town gate housings through which poured thousands of invading royalists at midnight of the 27th February 1645, thinking they would overrun the Parliamentarian defenders who they outnumbered six to one. But they underestimated local man, Colonel William Sydenham, who ambushed them and 200 of the attackers were slaughtered in the old High Street, before they were forced to retreat back out of the town.(from local historian Mark Vine)