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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's
Posted by: Simon Hayes
Date/Time: 12/01/26 13:59:00

Guy does seem keen to blame everyone else for the inactivity with Waterman’s, but he’s not being entirely honest.

The call in of the proposal by the Secretary of State was entirely legal and part of the process due to the impact of any development on Kew Gardens, which is a Workd Heritage Site and has protected characteristics. Just because Guy didn’t like it, doesn’t mean it was incorrect for it to have happened.

As for Covid, well nobody knew that was coming except perhaps some Chinese scientists in Wuhan.

Truss was a disaster but the construction industry was already in difficulties before she came along, largely due to the exodus of foreign builders from the UK. Many Poles went back home because the economic opportunities there were better than in the UK, with low business taxation and better standards of living fuelling an economic boom there. Now, I wonder which current government is stifling the UK with idiotic policies? Probably the one Lsmbert was so enthusiastic about 18 months ago!

Guy also ignores the way those running the old Waterman’s ran it into the ground. Its offer became so niche nobody was particularly beating a path there. Meanwhile, events that were attractive were simply not advertised by the organisation either on its website or in-house. Surely the councillors who sat on the board of trustees all those years, including one G Lambert, might have noticed there were problems but seemed to do nothing about it.

As were elsewhere in Brentford things are being built, but an arts centre is about the lowest priority for a developer because it doesn’t bring the 25-30 percent profits routinely expected from any project.

It has been open to the council to put in a Compulsory Purchase Order on the site to break the deadlock - as happened with the Filmworks site in Ealing - but the time for that has probably now passed.

Don’t hold your breath on a new Waterman’s, folks. And any pre-election promises from Cllr Lambert that he will push it forward should be taken with a big pinch of salt.

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Waterman's04/02/25 23:22:00 Eric Alan Leach
   Re:Waterman's04/02/25 23:26:00 Guy Lambert
      Re:Re:Waterman's05/02/25 09:53:00 Eric Alan Leach
         Re:Re:Re:Waterman's05/02/25 21:00:00 Guy Lambert
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's06/02/25 08:47:00 Simon Hayes
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's06/02/25 18:03:00 Jeremy Parkinson
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's06/02/25 18:25:00 Eric Alan Leach
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's10/02/25 03:28:00 Eric Alan Leach
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's13/02/25 17:18:00 Jeremy Parkinson
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's13/02/25 18:24:00 Keith Iddon
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's13/02/25 20:05:00 Simon Hayes
                                 Reply21/02/25 10:41:00 Jeremy Parkinson
                                    Re:Reply21/02/25 15:46:00 Simon Hayes
                                       Re:Re:Reply22/02/25 15:20:00 Anne England
                                          Re:Re:Re:Reply22/02/25 19:58:00 Simon Hayes
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply22/02/25 20:47:00 Anne England
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply03/03/25 11:07:00 Eric Alan Leach
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply01/04/25 10:43:00 Eric Alan Leach
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply01/04/25 12:32:00 Guy Lambert
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply01/04/25 13:48:00 Guy Lambert
                                                            Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply01/04/25 16:21:00 Vanessa Smith
                                                               Waterman's Park : an idea.26/05/25 23:08:00 Jim Lawes
                                                                  Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.27/05/25 08:52:00 Guy Lambert
                                                                     Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.13/06/25 13:35:00 Eric Alan Leach
                                                                        Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.14/08/25 00:04:00 Eric Alan Leach
                                                                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.14/08/25 12:01:00 Simon Hayes
                                                                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.14/08/25 23:28:00 Guy Lambert
                                                                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.16/08/25 09:23:00 Simon Hayes
                                                                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.16/08/25 11:44:00 Guy Lambert
                                                                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.16/08/25 11:48:00 Chris Dakers
                                                                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.16/08/25 13:28:00 Simon Hayes
                                                                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.16/08/25 15:00:00 Guy Lambert
                                                                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.23/08/25 13:46:00 Joanne Sky
                                                                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's Park : an idea.23/08/25 17:15:00 Guy Lambert
   Re:Waterman's29/08/25 17:35:00 Sally Mason
      Re:Re:Waterman's29/08/25 18:05:00 Simon Hayes
   Re:Waterman's29/08/25 18:39:00 irene barber
      Re:Re:Waterman's29/08/25 22:17:00 Keith Iddon
         Re:Re:Re:Waterman's30/08/25 10:35:00 Andrew Buckland
   Re:Waterman's30/08/25 17:00:00 Barbara Dudley
      Re:Re:Waterman's31/08/25 08:15:00 Eric Alan Leach
         Re:Re:Re:Waterman's31/08/25 09:38:00 Raymond Havelock
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's31/08/25 11:52:00 Philippa Bond
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's31/08/25 15:07:00 Raymond Havelock
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's01/09/25 12:33:00 Joanne Sky
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's14/11/25 13:40:00 Kass Stewart
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's15/11/25 17:44:00 Guy Lambert
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's01/09/25 14:19:00 Susan Kelly
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's01/09/25 15:48:00 Chris Dakers
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's01/09/25 16:44:00 Simon Hayes
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's23/10/25 15:00:00 Eric Alan Leach
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's23/10/25 20:42:00 Keith Iddon
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's23/10/25 22:00:00 Guy Lambert
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's12/11/25 16:21:00 Eric Alan Leach
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's12/11/25 19:37:00 Guy Lambert
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's12/11/25 22:50:00 Keith Iddon
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's13/11/25 12:52:00 Anne England
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's13/11/25 13:06:00 Anne England
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's13/11/25 16:14:00 Keith Iddon
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's13/11/25 18:03:00 Anne England
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's14/11/25 11:43:00 Guy Lambert
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's14/11/25 14:59:00 Keith Iddon
                                                         Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's20/11/25 19:09:00 Craig Owen
   Re:Waterman's15/11/25 14:22:00 Simon Wycombe
      Re:Re:Waterman's06/12/25 08:46:00 Eric Alan Leach
   Re:Waterman's06/12/25 11:37:00 Simon Hayes
      Re:Re:Waterman's03/01/26 13:08:00 Philippa Bond
         Re:Re:Re:Waterman's05/01/26 17:00:00 Simon Hayes
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's05/01/26 23:25:00 Keith Iddon
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's06/01/26 11:27:00 Simon Hayes
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's06/01/26 23:32:00 David Cook
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's07/01/26 08:06:00 Simon Hayes
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's08/01/26 08:11:00 Guy Lambert
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's08/01/26 10:00:00 Eric Alan Leach
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's08/01/26 17:09:00 Keith Iddon
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's09/01/26 21:15:00 Guy Lambert
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's12/01/26 13:59:00 Simon Hayes
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's12/01/26 18:10:00 Chris Dakers
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's06/02/26 13:56:00 Eric Alan Leach
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's06/02/26 17:57:00 Keith Iddon
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Waterman's06/02/26 22:33:00 Guy Lambert

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