Tearing down Weymouth seafront shelters is vandalism (From Dorset Echo)
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Tearing down Weymouth seafront shelters is vandalism
10:33am Thursday 18th March 2010 in
An act of vandalism is taking place on Weymouth seafront perpetrated by the council.
Some of the shelters on the sea front were last year held in high esteem by the council as part of the regeneration scheme.
They are being taken down because the Government bailed out the bankers and have no money to give to the Regional Development Agency to fund our regeneration of the area.
The idea that taking them down will stop the vagrants living in a shelter is, of course, nonsense as they will just move to the next shelter.
Only last year the council was proposing to block the view of Weymouth Bay by building an eight-story hotel totally blocking the horizon and the Nothe Fort at this point.
I am sure that the novelty rock emporium owners have a point which I do respect. But why not just say ‘we can’t afford to repair them so we are taking them down’?
Will the council replace them with bench seating for our visitors?
No of course not, we need to hire out deckchairs.
Paul Compton, Chapel Lane, Upwey
Comments(4)
Duckorange
says...
8:20am Fri 19 Mar 10
"Some of the shelters on the sea front were last year held in high esteem by the Council"
The one they are removing is not one of them.
Saying these are dastardly plans to force people into parting with their money as some sort of deckchair scam is right out of Scooby Doo.
regardez
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9:39am Sat 20 Mar 10
As for the vagrants let's stop rewarding bad behaviour and adopt a zero tolerance policy, let's look after the people who visit our lovely town and not the people who just take from society.
mark@greenhill
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7:51am Tue 23 Mar 10
I would bet next months salary, that they are all removed for the 2 weeks of the Olympics ?
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1:51pm Thu 18 Mar 10