Beautiful Day
I begun the day watching a dredger clear away the dock at Felixstowe Port. It left me wondering what happens to all the little creatures who lost their homes this morning. Soppy? Probably, but it is the Eurovision Song Contest tonight and if you've heard our entry you'd already be feeling rather low.I've cycled everywhere today, the sun is shining, I was caught in one or two very small showers and the wind is blowing with great gusto but it made me feel good to be alive. I'm grateful for that because I upset someone very special this morning, and I'll make no excuses, it was my fault. I was not being deliberately malicious but had just made (another) silly mistake.
That made me rail against our local council, who in cahoots with a developer want to build hundreds of houses on floodplain land along the coast. The whole scheme is daft, and the council have already rejected their own scheme (which was daft in itself). Now they are withdrawing from the appeal against that rejection. Why? You may well ask. I suspect it is so they can submit another application, one that the council will rubberstamp this time, and the local people will be faced with awful blocks of apartments, where now there is a wonderful Edwardian building. The council want to knock that down.
Is there sense in all this? Politicians eager to save money would suggest there is - I'd say it is just another reason many of us don't trust them as far as they can be thrown.
posted by Suffolk Notes @ 2:08 pm
1 Comments:
This blog seems, on the surface, LIKE (to be) a local issue. Yet I can identify readily with it. My hometwon, Savannah, survives by not tearing down old buildings. We restore. And it has given us the reputation among some as the most beautiful city in the world. We can't build hotel fast enough for the incoming tourists. It is a constant battle with our elected officials to make those hotels in restored old buildings rather than new concrete and steel monstrosities. The US government has managed to build an ugly federal courthouse in that latter style and a wealthy donor who funded a new museum insisted upon doing the same. Those of us who are of the area cringe and bear it. The biggest crime we committ is lumping Edwardian in with Victorian (Hey! whadda you expect, we're Yanks).We only need to look across the river to see where developers, left to their own desires, created the destruction of a beautiful natural resort, Hilton Head. They literally shot themselves in the foot by making it a traffic nightmare of overpopulated beach erosion. Lots of Real Estate bargains there but few takers.
The solution of course is in the ending paragraph of your blog. They aren't interested in SAVING money but making it. THEY CAN BE THROWN (OUT in the next election. But how far?)
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