Friday 28 November 2008

SNAKELOCKS ANENOME AT SANDY COVE


(Anenomia Sulcata) Photo by Paul Atlas-Saunders

This subaquatic entity has only one known enemy - The Route Partnership.

Financial Cost of Route Partnership Scheme so far: £547,609.53p.

This money has gone to Hyder, Birse (Not Nuclear), & Halcrow (Plus Trewin Architecture). Three of the richest companies in the UK, with interests in countries that are in violation of treaties with the UK over issues such as murder and torture. No region of the UK is poorer than Cornwall. Should the council not have some form of moral vetting when deciding who to give our tax money to? You can be involved in this process by signing our on-line petition and writing to Hilary Benn, Secretary of State For The Environment and expressing your concern over this planned violation of Nature and Democracy.

Saturday 22 November 2008

STAY OF EXECUTION!

SCHEME TO BUILD OVER BEACH POSTPONED - NOT YET ABANDONED...

Please keep on petitioning & spreading the word - why not print off and hand out a few flyers & do your bit for Mother Nature?





As a direct result of a good number of Penzance townspeople going along to the 'consultation' at St.John's Hall, Penzance, Cornwall, UK, on September 30th '08 & expressing their outrage and resistance to any scheme to destroy Sandy Cove & Battery Rocks, the Route Partnership have postponed the submission of a planning application, apparently until February '09. They are intending to stage a second PR excercise - another chance for the public to express their feelings. Surely the crucial question is just how much legal influence do these Consultations actually have when planning decisions are made? This question will not remain rhetorical but will be put to those in power.

HOW TO VIEW THE COMMENTS THAT MADE THE PLANNERS THINK AGAIN...

There has been much discussion about the difficulty in actually finding the public feedback from the consultation displayed on the web, where the Councils & Route Partnership claim it can be viewed. Everyone I know has been confused by the way in which the information is set out. When you log on to

www.ioslinkharbours.co.uk/en/public-consultat

If you go to Have Your Say, you will see ''Sorry, there are no comments to view at the moment....'' There follow contact details for Birse Nuclear

caroline.mottram@birse.co.uk

and details for Media Enquiries, CCC, Beverly Hill

bhill@cornwall.gov.uk


All this is a smoke-screen of ill-construed Hog-wash to divert you away from the point. To get to the actual comments you must by-pass all this and go to Project Developments , click on Public Consultation, finally click on September 2008 Exhibition & you're there! Easy wasn't it? No-one could ever accuse the Route Partnership of trying to supress the Voice of the People, now could they?

STOP PRESS..... Route Partnership have re-edited their website since last checked the previous day! if you now follow the trail I described, instead of finally showing you the dreaded comments, they now want you to sign up to various media-players - an effective obstacle to alot of us who simply wanted to read the comments, not install a load of technology - most of us have neither the time nor interest. This website is like an outrageous Cretan maze and trying to locate any actual Facts in it is like trying to fix a hole in the ocean , looking through a glass onion. We will contact the Root Partnership & ask for directions - watch this blogspace...

ENJOY YOUR BEACH!

Wednesday 12 November 2008

PETITION NOW - Don't be misled by The Cornishman,Route Partnership Scheme for the Isles of Scilly

SAVE THE HOLY HEADLAND IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE BIRTH OF ITS NEW ON-LINE PETITION:

www.thepetitionsite.com/2/save-

the-holy-headland-penzance

Please spread the word about this as a Planning Decision is imminent!

CORNISHMAN CAUSES CONFUSION AND DIVERSION WITH EXTRAORDINARILY MISLEADING HEADLINE

The 6.11.08 issue of The Cornishman grabbed our attention with its arresting headline:

'DEVELOPERS PULL OUT OF £35,000,000 PLAN FOR SEAFRONT'

Given that The Cornishman (local paper in Penzance, Cornwall, UK) has, after at least a couple of years of ignoring the issue, finally recognised its journalistic obligation to inform the public about the Isles of Scilly Link Harbour plans, our hopes were raised...
But no. Closer examination revealed that the seafront development in question was the block of 60's flats opposite the recycling facility in Wherrytown. This has been far from headline news up till now, so it is surprising suddenly to find it on the front page with a wording suggestive of the other, much more urgent seafront development issue in Penzance.
We wonder how many other people have been similarly excited by their first glance at the Cornishman's front page; or have even gone away from a cursory sighting believing the proposals of the route partnership Scheme to have been shelved - sighing a sigh of relief that sanity has triumphed over greed and making a mental note to stop worrying about the issue or doing anything about it.....

NEW SUPER-COUNCIL CHIEF TO GET OVER £200,000 A YEAR!

What new madness is this? We recommend the excercise of Free Speech on this one - if you feel anything about this issue, why not simply let them know. Perhaps someone will make it their business to get up a campaign over this issue...

COUNCIL CHANGEOVER COSTS RISE BY £ 41,000,000
Somebody's doing alright...

TOTAL FIGURE FOR ROUTE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME TO DESTROY BEACH, BUILD TERMINAL AND SHIP: £42,000,000
What a coincidence!

NO REPLY: THE POLICY OF IGNORANCE IN OFFICIALDOM

The theory is that a local council enacts the wishes of the locals. To do this they usually communicate and correspond with those locals - as they make ostensible claims to do in their literature, paid for by the populace.
Things down here in West Penwith are a little different, we regret. Officials in this neck of the woods can't bear to reply when asked about Conservation Designations, invitations to planning meetings, incoming planning applications and policy contradictions, let alone money. This crude strategy of ignoring legitimate enquiries is an attempt to cripple any attempt at challenging the Route Partnership scheme for the Isles of Scilly Link which involves the destruction of Sandy Cove in Penzance. They are trying to thus undermine our legal case against them - in other words our Right to fight with Words and Laws, openly and Democratically for what we believe the overwhealming majority of people believe to be right. We ask you all to bear witness to this. I now submit the letter of 14th October '08:

"To: Head of Sustainable Development, Penwith District Council, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
c.c: Senior Project Manager, Cornwall County Council, Truro, Cornwall, UK
Re: ISSUES ARISING FROM PROPOSED CRIMES AGAINST NATURE:
I have asked for a meeting with you to discuss all questions that remain unanswered I suggest that you have a statutory responsibility to respond to my letters of enquiry. Further to the above I would ask you to justify your course of action over the Beach, in relation to the following Policies - taken from your current statement sold to us yesterday:

SECTION 6: 6.3.3. POLICY CC-1...
SECTION 6: 6.3.13 POLICY CC-3...
SECTION 7: 7.3.81; 7.3.82; 7.3.83...

From the revised edition of '07 POLICY CC-14...

So as well as explaining the apparent contradiction between your stated policies and your practice, we would like to know the following:

How is the Little Cove & Battery Rocks and also the rest of the area under discussion as a possible ferry terminal designated according to your system of clasification? Is there a conservation designation?

We believe we can show that this case requires an Environmental Impact Assesment according to European Law. Your comments please....."

At date of publication we are still awaiting a reply from these representatives. It seems we are going to have to let official pressure drop on them and see if a response comes out. There are democratic channels of complaint which we will have to resort to, but, and it's a big but, we argue that all the time they wasted with delaying tactics be considered owing to our campaign as extra time to fairly construct our case. Supposedly there are rules governing the council's speed of response. This flies in the face of their official propaganda harping on such Hogwash as Performance Indicators, Access to Information, and accountability for one and all...

VIEW FROM THE COVE
12.11.08 12.20pm
Hole-diggers at Democracy Wall... 5 men digging, 1 woman watching, four now stopped work, leaning on the old wall that someone has censored of its Limpet broadsheets... Beautiful day here at Sandy Cove - sea is glistening and melodious waves lap the ancient shore here in Penzance. The growl of a heavy moter vehicle announces the arrival of... you've guessed it... Sustainable Development! Hellish Crows flock around but instead of a ripe field of corn it's a crock of real gold, public gold, that draws these harbingers and nuclear dissBirsers with their Jeckyl & Hyder approach to P.R. (the scraping drag of a digger's great iron bucket on the granite flagstones of the ancient quay) These folks are telling you about how good they are with coastal building, Brighton Pier, and quaint old English Railways, all very wholesome and proper. But just check their web-sites to find out what and who they are really dealing with...

www.halcrow.com/html/our_markets/nuclear/nuclear.htm

HALCROW currently have at least 16 NUCLEAR projects

www.halcrow.com/html/our_regions/asia/china.htm

www.freetibet.org

www.laogai.org

www.organharvestinvestigation.net

www.birsecl.co.uk/html/birse-nuclear/

www.hyderconsulting.com/A/AboutUs/Pages/more.aspx?pageID=5&pageType=Articles


www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/middleeast.construction

www.hyderconsulting.com/UK/Editorial/Downloads/Nuclear%Decommissioning.pdf

Please don't forget to sign our Petition. Let the People's Will be made Manifest.