What lies beyond the field?
ENTER 2023 – the year of the long-awaited appointment with GST – and our elected representatives on both sides of the debate are seemingly currently obsessed with plans to build a block of flats on a field.
To be fair, they are not alone. It’s an issue which has engaged, even enraged, the wider public too, yet it is just a component of much broader subjects – recruitment and retention of key workers, affordability and availability of housing, and our approach towards healthcare for a start.
The future of Le Bordage Seath is a big deal to plenty in our community, not solely for the loss of the field, but for what they fear it will foretell.
Nonsense, says HSC member Marc Leadbeater in a punchy letter issued over the weekend, which we will publish in full later this week.
He demonstrates local politics’ modern-day tendencies of playing the man (in this case Deputy Steve Falla and his social media posts) as well as the political ball – ‘the same thin arguments tainted with spin and exaggeration’ comes across as pretty brutal – but also offers at the least a highly-charged case.
This one’s got a fair way to go.
But unless we believe the mantra that ‘all green fields will be under threat’ if this goes through, our States members do also have bigger ticket items coming around which will demand some solid scrutiny.