Why can’t someone take responsibility for previous actions?
Our fight to save family homes from demolition has never been about politics or looked to blame anyone, and in many ways, whilst trying to secure the future of our properties, has also been about the council learning from their mistakes.
A common topic of conversation when talking to people during our protest is “that so easily could be my home one day” and the residents of Spalding feel let down by some of their elected members.
The Local Plan appears to have been a closely guarded secret, hence why the Bourne Road residents were unaware of the change in route form the allotments. How many councillors, and in which wards knew what, we will never know.
But we thought the whole point of the Safeguarded Corridor – again at what date this was introduced no one can prove – was a relevant piece of ‘peripheral information when considering planning applications’.
So the answer given to the question “Was there a moral duty to advise residents directly affected and under threat of bulldozing”, well in our opinion, those directly responsible for the preparation of the Local Plan had such a duty, regardless of which area of the town we live in.
We are all loyal council tax paying citizens of Spalding, and are extremely upset, annoyed and distressed by recent events.
When was the decision made to deviate from the original plan which avoided the need to ‘purchase and demolish residential properties’ and why were we not informed. This question remains unanswered.
The residents within the Safeguarded Corridor, Bourne Road
