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Tatton: the fences go up, but the jobs not done yet
by Lib Dem team on 21 May, 2018
The Lib Dem team have welcomed signs of activity at the former Tatton cinema, with fences and a portacabin set up.
“It’s good to see all the work we, and others, put in starting to pay off,” said Iain. “But the job’s not done until the work is finished and we have a new Co-op open and new apartments lived in. There’s a way to go and we won’t let up the pressure until it’s done.”
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This farce wouldn’t have lasted so long if the LibDem councillors, and local MP Mark Hunter, had not objected it to the original proposal ten years ago.
Or if the Conservatives hadn’t literally run an entire election campaign on opposing development at the Tatton – saying that the Lib Dems were in favour of the development and winning by 17 votes, Bruce.
Sorry Iain – we had a Lib Dem MP and a Lib Dem council and your party had control.
I have seen a Lib Dem leaflet which states :-
‘ thanks to the work of the Lib Dems the Planning and highways committee voted to reject the proposal’
It also mentioned potential parking and traffic problems!
Fair to say that the Lib Dems pandered to the objections of a small number of residents. And,as Iain says, the Tories ran a whole election campaign, successfully, against the development (along with a number of porkies told about the Kingsway lights situation). Labour also opposed the plan. Shame on all three – although Labour later publically admitted in an election leaflet they had been wrong to do so.
FWIW, I was the only local resident who attended the planning inquiry appeal to speak in favour of the development.
All credit to you John. Pity there weren’t more like you.
Thanks, Paula.
I know it is all water under the bridge now but I suspect both the Tories and the Lib Dems could look back on their activities and think “nope, we should have done it differently”. Almost the biggest nonsense was the position the then Tory councillor found himself in. He’d fought and won an election using such language that he was declared to have a “prejudicial interest” in the subject which meant he was barred from speaking about it in council meetings. What a kick in the teeth for people who had voted for him.