May 10th, 2009
Rock Walk – has the world gone mad?
It seems even on a local and relatively small scale level, people are standing back in absolute awe at the catastrophic environmental mistakes local Councils are able to make, seemingly unstoppable in their ignorance and unanswerable to their blunders.
Whilst at Governmental level Gordon Brown, for all of his many, failings, is waking up to environmental sensibilities:
”Environmental sustainability is not an option – it is a necessity. We have a compelling and ever more urgent duty of stewardship to take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity and social fabric depends…”
It seems many Councils agree in principle, but clearly think this ‘stewardship’ does not apply to them.
Torbay Council is a shining example of this. The decision to demolish Rock Walk – aside from the fact that it’s a major feature on the sea front of what is essentially a tourist destination, supposedly renowned for its beauty - the wanton demolition of trees and foliage hundreds of years old, has proved catastrophic and has enraged local people.
The cliff face was striped because ‘the trees might fall down’. This has not only irrevocably scarred the landscape, but shock horror – it turns out it was the trees that were holding the cliff face up, Doh!!
V.W.
10.05.09
We have a council who saw fit to totally strip the cliff gardens, above the Princess Theatre, of vegetation. They were then surprised that the rock surface became unstable and are now paying for workmen to absail down the cliff nailing wire netting and supports into the rock.
I imagine most people have heard of the effects of deforestation, why were Torbay Council not aware this might happen? Unbelievable.
The Butterfly
10.05.09
The attitude that it’s the responsibility of somebody higher up to take responsibility and ultimately sort out our mistakes has to stop. Local Councils are entirely guilty of using all the right jargon and environmental buzz words, but not reflecting their principals are in their actions – they are passing the buck and it’s shameful!
FL
18.05.09
This is dreadful and torbay council should be ashamed! As locals we do our bit by sorting all our recycling and they go and undo all that work in one fell swoop.
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