| |
|
 ------
|
|
THREE LITTLE PIGS
Isn’t it
marvellous? Now, the Cityscape crew and another
developer Hilliers are falling out over riverside
land at the junction of Exeter Street and Derwent
Street, crossing swords because Cityscape wants
to build a hotel on there and so does its rivals.
Every piece of land in the City is up for grabs
to developers and it does not matter if the
development is either wanted or needed by the
City – what the developers, aided by their
quislings at Derby City Council, wants, they get.
Take one of the latest ill-thought-out schemes to
come from the bowels of the Council House, (it
couldn’t have come from anywhere else!).
Councillor Sara Bolton has come up with what to
her must be a marvellous piece of inspired
thinking – lets take the idea of an
incineration plant in the middle of a built up
area of the City and on which we intended to pass
planning permission before the firm went bust,
and build it ourselves.
And, in her inspirational dream, where did she
suggest to re-site it? – why, on the old
incinerator plant site at Raynesway, right in the
middle of a densely populated area of the City,
where for years the populations of Spondon,
Alvaston, Allenton and Borrowash have had to put
up with industrial noise and pollution on a
monumental scale.
Furthermore, who are the other authorities
clamouring and jumping up and down to be a part
of sending their unwanted rubbish to join in the
plague and persecution of the people of these
areas? Why, none other than South Derbyshire
District Council and Derbyshire County Council.
In a rare instance of joined-up-thinking, these 3
little pigs think that they have seen a way out
of the dilemma of land-fill disposal. “I
know”, says the first pig, “lets send
all our shit down to Derby, it won’t bother
US that way”. “What a great idea",
says the 2nd pig, "a way out for all of
us”. “The best part of all”, says
the 3rd pig, “is that we’ll have even
more money to waste because the other 2 pigs will
have to pay us to burn their nasty old
rubbish.”
Apart from the satisfying fact that the 3 little
pigs in this story have not yet run in to the Big
Bad Wolf, but soon will do, there is another, not
insignificant irony.
Next to the land on which Sara Bolton dreams of
building her Swerf plant is a park which is loved
by everyone except the 3 little pigs. When it
comes to getting rid of the park, the little pig
from Derbyshire County Council says to the little
pigs from South Derbyshire District Council and
from Derby City Council, “Remember! Cover
both your eyes and ears and if anybody asks what
we are doing, do what we do, and say
nothing!” It is amazing how the animals in
the farmyard can stick together to do everything
which helps them to put their fat trotters
everywhere that they shouldn’t do.
Cover your eyes and ears, we want to sell a park
and build a hotel and golf courses and also a
swerf plant at the side of the hotel and golf
courses. It doesn’t matter that the animals
who live around here have to put up with the
noise and the pollution and the selling off of
their public parks – it isn’t us who
have to live there…. Meanwhile, on the other
side of the City, some other little pigs are
arguing about whether they should have a 2 star
trough, or a four star trough.
|
|
|
|
