Save Orleans Riverside from Development

Playground attendee

/ #67

2014-07-06 23:04

Its obvious that Lord True has offered this to Lord Stirling-who serves to profit, and to their pet architects.In their eyes its a done deal. The spin on it is that any clod who doesn't support the development just doesn't understand the idea. Its about our stupidity not their criminal and underhand plans. The council questionnaire is the most biased document I have ever seen. Most of the questions are on generalities and aspects of the new building.(eg:"Do you agree that bike racks are a good idea?") Nowhere is there the option of saying you don't want the development! Any resident filling it out would be counted as being in agrement with the plan no matter what they put in the comments box.The spin is also used to present the the destruction of the riverside and the enormous building as a "restoration" of a Georgian boatshed. (The Georgian boatshed was a small, low, wooden structure just big enough to fit a rowing skiff.) Councillor Flemming is tying herself in knots to say its not a done deal but that the scheme "will be" great and the playground and meadow "will be" demolished, sorry, moved..somewhere.Oh, and at the protest meeting the councillors presdent tried to suggest that A. this will be a huge tourist attraction but B. there will be very few people coming in, no need to worry about traffic etc. (Teleporters?)Please everybody get your objections in! We have to say we don't want any development or they will make a couple of slight changes and go ahead.Do you know the local disabled children have had their holiday outings programme slashed on the grounds that there are no funds-and £30,000 has already been spent on the glossy council advertising put out to try to market this turkey to us?