| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Morrisons Supermarket site for sale! according to Kath the Editor | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 20/09/15 11:18:00 |
| The fact is Guy, Councillors do have a part to play. The Borough plan designation should not have been unanimously voted through and all six local councillors should have opposed the change to designation of the Morrisons site. You may be new to this but 4 out of 5 other councillors are most certainly not. What have they been doing all this time? Did any one bother to read it? It was so ham fistedly produced that the gobbledegook missives on the plan must have numbed all but those with legal training. That in itself should have been challenged. This was spotted and raised but fell on completely deaf ears. That is not responsible community stewardship by councillors or indeed the officers who created these assessments. That designation alone hyped up the value of the site. What good is more homes without any facilities? It will mean that a large part of Brentford will have to drive to do a weekly shop, It will mean bus journeys for those who shop every few days. Morrisons may not be the best supermarket in the world, but it carries all one needs and is affordable. It is a lifeline to this town and is as important as a school or medical centre and used by all types of people, from all walks of life. If that goes it will be a legacy of the utter recklessness caused by covert and unchallenged meddling by this authority towards this town. There is plenty councillors and council can do. 1. Amend the town plan ( and we as residents and taxpayers ought to know just who thought changing the the designation was a good idea, along with failing to designate other sites for schools?) 2. Extend the St Paul's Conservation area so it is bounded by the Beehive and includes the Court site, which, no doubt will be next. 3. Reinforce the conservation area status which has been recently downgraded with no consultation to residents within it whatsoever. 4. Needs to be designated a site of public interest. Why is it that this was quite easily done 18 years ago, by past councillors and officers, but not even discussable now? |