A third marina? No, another survey!
Reading the front page of last week’s Newsletter, I was taken aback by the headline “£14,000 spent on Whitebridge marina survey”. Oh no, I thought, just like London buses, you haven’t got a single marina one moment and then the prospect of three being built takes place within weeks! Planning permission has already been granted for one south of town at Aston and there have benn hints and rumours that the Borough Council are about to announce plans for another in Westbridge Park. Surely there’s no demand for a third at Whitebridge, north of the town? But no, all’s well. The Newsletter was confusing Whitebridge with Westbridge and the story itself was all about the Borough Council paying consultants to see whether a marina in Westbridge Park is a practical proposal.
Apparently the results were positive and the Environment Agency has approved the report subject to ‘flood defence work’ being carried out on the canal. This is good news. There have been so many rumours about what is going on behind the scenes about future developments on Westbridge Park that it is reassuring to actually hear some hard facts. We all know that there have been several surveys over the last couple of years (the latest only a couple of weeks ago) at a cost, on my calculation, of over £50,000. It’s time we we were told what’s going on!
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