We rejected KFC plan for the good of Grantham
I READ your provocative comment column with interest as I was one of the committee who rejected the proposed KFC development because the ‘style of building was not to our taste’.
In spite of the fact that the boarded up pub, the maltings building, the lumpy field and the empty haualge yard - the development control committee voted to reject the plans by a large majority precisely because they have a vision for Grantham that does not involve jumping at the first half-baked, ill-conceived plan that comes along, and merely accentuates the obvious problem rather than alleviates it.
If a more considered approach had been taken in the past then we might not now be left with derelict land, under-used buildings and a reputation for Grantham that SKDC Councillors are doing their very best to turn around - perhaps to the detriment of other locations in the authority.
Yes we need jobs, yes we need trade and this is an opportunity for a innovative entrepeneurial mind to come along with a plan that does fit the bill and rest assured when that does happen we will fully embrace the plan.
Cllr Mrs Judy Stevens
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Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 01:26 PMPerhaps this is the same SKDC that rejected the approach of an innovative entrepeneurial mind to come along with a plan such as the Mars Group did just after the Second World war.That would have bought long term employment and oppurtunities for other innovative entrepeneurial minds to create other spin off companies,such as Transport Haulage. However the vested interests (Keeping wages low for one thing) of existing Local Employers put paid to that approach. As many of us will know the Mars Group invested instead in Melton Mowbray with its lesser Road & Rail Infrastructure. This also encouraged the creation of a vast Asfordby Storage and Transport company near by. Its really good to see that SKDC have our interests at heart and I am sure we can rest assured that we can look forward to something much more useful appearing in the Town,similar to their recent expenditure in the Market Place. At least LCC's expenditure on paving should make it safer to walk in that area. Everything changes,but some things stay the same.
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