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Gerry Forteath

Chair of East Haven Local Place Plan Steering Group; community leader in East Haven, Angus, Scotland

Jul 21, 2026

10:52
[laughs]
10:52
Um, yeah, 'cause I lived in Carnoustie at the time.
10:55
Uh, I think my boys may have been involved in the band.
10:58
Being just two miles away, I was familiar with East Haven, but I'd kind of bypass it because I, I guess I wasn't as conscious at that point.
11:07
And it was a really nice place, but not without a lot of work.
11:11
If you don't pay attention and you don't get the community together to act, it's very easy for communities just to go into decline and then nobody really cares about it, and you tend to think it's impossible to do anything about.

21 MINS LATER

32:49
Yeah.
32:49
Almost word for word.

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