| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford Steering Group Video on Front Page..... | |
| Posted by: | Anthony Waller | |
| Date/Time: | 27/11/14 11:03:00 |
| I had posted a lengthy reply to this last night but it seems to have been deleted this morning. Not sure why as it contained no insults or bad language. So I'll try and reply again. I accept that I come across as Mr Angry. I am. Not in the flying fists variety but in the frustration of what is systematically happening to this town and the endless missed opportunities and half baked schemes that have failed in so many ways. I would sooner be Mr Angry than Mr Insipid, Mr Apathetic, Mr Bland or Mr Indifferent. I have by the way done my bit. I have filed my objection as have most of my family. Angry because the news that it is a 'done deal' has been floating around for quite some time. Whilst I do not like several aspects of the Steering groups suggestions, even they at the end of the day have been largely ignored. It's hard to be anything other than angry at that. It just underlines the lack of respect and input by those who are supposed to represent and serve the local populus who seem to believe they are a cut above the public. But what is on the cards is truly awful. Outdated, brutalesque, over dense and will be as souless as several other developments. Worse still, is the loss of thousands of local solid long term skilled and semi skilled jobs. Not all of us can be TV and Media execs, Marketing execs or science bods. Small manufacturing and non office based service industries are as vital. They may not be as shiny and glitzy as Sky or GSK but a great many have solid long term jobs in these "shabby little businesses" as some like to describe them. Low cost versatile business facilities have been reduced severely in this area which even now still a has a geographical natural industrial base. Especially around the riverhead. The proposals are truly awful and will further degrade Brentford as a cohesive community town which despite the generations of neglect still remains intact far more than almost any other district in London . Yes, I have ideas, pragmatic not rose tinted pipe dreams but no-one listens. It's cliques or politicians. This is too important to allow politics or gerrymandering to influence a decision, but yet again we are going to end up with a poor profit led development. In a nutshell, proper family homes, gardens, and small mixed use business/industrial facilities better infrastructure and open up the riverside. For all. So angry? Yes. Sad for Brentford ? Yes. |