I'm busy this week but a couple of things I'd like to expand on, come to mind as I chomp through dinner, one why can't Thanet council come clean on Northdown House which remains a mystery despite some councillor (who was going to retire but didn't) suggesting it will close at end of the year, as Thanet Leisure force have declined to take bookings for 2009, seemingly ignoring the fact that Thanet Leisure Force who operate Northdown House, currently cannot take bookings for the building because some council bright spark has not told them whether the property will be available or not.
Even more disturbing is the rumour that the ever expanding population of council bureaucrats will soon inhabit the lower floors of the building, perhaps taking the suggestion that I made recently that senior dib dobs at the council could live out their fantasy's of self importance at Northdown House, depriving the local community of a great facility for weddings & parties etc (also ignore the whooping great big hole in finances bought about by one can only assume poor decisions) .
Housing do we have enough or what, well its or what I'm afraid, Thanet council seem hell bent on bending over once again for their mates in the construction industry, not happy with the agreement to build an 1100 home housing estate with no adequate transport infrastructure at Westwood Cross they are going to compound this already grisly plan by allowing a further 700 home in the adjacent field, according to Steve Ladyman this proposal "looks like sheer madness" and lord knows, he should know, since I seem to remember only a few days ago, Ladyman could not do more, to promote that other controversial development China Gateway, still Thanet South Labour would probably know why?
Just on the Thanet Gateway its not just Labour politicians like Ladyman who are in favour this grotesque charade in wealth creation, Sandy and Roger went on a trip last year, but none of these politicians have been able to point to any credible job creation (OR GIVE FACTS) . Even more surprising is thatCGP don't appear to have any credible information either, which if this was the big opportunity they might claim, they'd be only too willing to tell us to help get positive support surely?
Even more disturbing is the rumour that the ever expanding population of council bureaucrats will soon inhabit the lower floors of the building, perhaps taking the suggestion that I made recently that senior dib dobs at the council could live out their fantasy's of self importance at Northdown House, depriving the local community of a great facility for weddings & parties etc (also ignore the whooping great big hole in finances bought about by one can only assume poor decisions) .
Housing do we have enough or what, well its or what I'm afraid, Thanet council seem hell bent on bending over once again for their mates in the construction industry, not happy with the agreement to build an 1100 home housing estate with no adequate transport infrastructure at Westwood Cross they are going to compound this already grisly plan by allowing a further 700 home in the adjacent field, according to Steve Ladyman this proposal "looks like sheer madness" and lord knows, he should know, since I seem to remember only a few days ago, Ladyman could not do more, to promote that other controversial development China Gateway, still Thanet South Labour would probably know why?
Just on the Thanet Gateway its not just Labour politicians like Ladyman who are in favour this grotesque charade in wealth creation, Sandy and Roger went on a trip last year, but none of these politicians have been able to point to any credible job creation (OR GIVE FACTS) . Even more surprising is thatCGP don't appear to have any credible information either, which if this was the big opportunity they might claim, they'd be only too willing to tell us to help get positive support surely?
One last thought Kent Highways which has a massive advertising and squander campaign running in the local media, has yet to provide adequate roads into Thanet, or even any credible plan to alleviate the chaos at Westwood, just how any of these big developments will function is beyond me and even further from the minds of our local planners.
Well that's all folks!
If what you say about Ladyman is correct then those friends of his at CGP who think he was worth £25,000 of their money clearly aren't briefing him fully. The whole purpose of EKO LLP wanting to build 700 houses on Eurokent site is to then have TDC claim it does not have sufficient jobs development land and would GOSE please approve of its plans to re-designate farmland purchased by CGP for Phase 2 and 3 of Gateway. This was under discussion/fiddle it through at TDC Cabinet last Thursday.This then gives CGP what was promised to them by Senior Officers in TDC Planning in 2006. Why did they get involved in buying farmland otherwise?
ReplyDeleteYou really think that this council is capable of a credible plan let alone "any credible plan to alleviate the chaos at Westwood". Dream on.
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