| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Dock road car park monolith | |
| Posted by: | Lorne Gifford | |
| Date/Time: | 19/04/19 19:44:00 |
| "Supporting a limited number of tall buildings in Brentford town centre" Yes, that is in the Local Plan and any one who reads it will tell you that it's a statement that includes "limited number". This obviously doesn't mean more than half the buildings because then the correct word would have been "majority". It clearly doesn't mean more than a quarter of buildings either as the correct word then would have been "minority". Limited number, as anyone who understands our language and has seen the size of the designated 'town center', means two or perhaps three buildings. So what are we going to end up with?, well every single building above the otherwise designated 20m maximum height. EVERY SINGLE BUILDING! I don't think the councilors are to blame for this, and I truly consider them to be genuine and honest people who are simply out maneuvered by LBH career types. To draw attention to the type of person I blame for this I think you need look no further than the recently departed LBH director for development and the environment. Starting with a caveat to ensure he can't sue me, the following is personal opinion which may or may not be true. Apparently, he cycled to Cannes in the south of France on LBH paid time, spent a few days flogging Brentford to the world's developers as an area where you can build whatever you damn well feel like, then ditched his bike and came home on an LBH paid for airline ticket. Hotel = LBH paid for, meals and dining no doubt courtesy of developers and I'm not surprised he couldn't be bothered to cycle back after such a fun time. What happened to this ex-director? Paid more than the Prime Minister for his time with LBH, given a £300k golden goodbye (£300k !! of our council tax money) and then walked into a consultancy with the company building the new football stadium development. Looking at that development, I see it's so far in excess of height and mass limits as to be truly laughable and has ZERO affordable housing because it's tagged as an enabling development to 'enable' the new football stadium, and presumably to enable the whole development to be stupidly profitable to the developers. Private Eye Rotten Borough again. LBH is rotted to the core because it's run as a fiefdom by people that call themselves Labour but are just in it for themselves. They have over a years worth of council tax in savings and yet jack up our bills and blame it on conservative cuts in funding. Why not blame the rises where the blame exists? LBH wants our council tax surplus so it can provide minimum legal public service, pay itself an astronomical wage bill, give itself gold plated pensions, and focus on it's core business of 'take care of number 1 ' In my opinion, the councillors need to ditch the pretence that LBH is Labour, go on the attack and tear the whole rotted edifice apart. |