| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Small lock up/industrial/workshop space advice | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 02/11/22 09:42:00 |
| Sadly not. Seems to be exactly what happens. Rumour abounds there is or was a Council Executive who was scouring Brentford and other parts of the borough for any scrap of land, garage, patch of grass for housing development and then tipping off potential developers about anything that was not suitable for Authorities own development. Suddenly opportunism kicks in along with greed and bang goes another small work location or facility. This being apparently all OK as it was part of the job brief. What does regeneration actually mean if it is at the expense of local jobs, local commerce and genuinely affordable low cost work units and work places of which Brentford had an abundance of, alongside all the bigger industrial and office places.? How, with transport costs ( of all means ) as much as 70% of some peoples incomes, just to go to work, balance with a diktat of walk or cycle when there are less and less proper jobs which that is fully suited to? The balance and choices of locations for developments is bizarre, but as has been long happening in this Borough, designation of use of sites has been meddled with and altered without proper consultation or any true understanding of the fabric of a local community. More to do with quotas, agendas and half baked policies to suit politics first. It's little surprise to see how the effects of ham fisted authority has played things for those with a degree of wealth cushioning them. We see it with policies that have affected the least able from the marketing and attitude of Gunnersbury Park, new developments and restrictions imposed without concern over who this actually causes hardship or deprivation to. And then funds have to be found to run 'initiatives' for inclusivity! Something very wrong somewhere. |