
Bruce BiddulphAlexandria, SCT, United Kingdom
Jun 13, 2018
Ive had a quick run down of the numbers who have signed the petition objecting to the sale: Around 960 who identified as living in West Dunbartonshire, 2500 in Glasgow. The rest are made up of addresses in Scotland, England and the rest of the world, the majority in Scotland. These are significant figures for an online petition that is specifically worded to object to the sale itself. Substantial numbers also come from around the rest of the Clydeside area. Some of the towns may not be identified so Ive only included in the above identified towns for West Dunbartonshire.
In total there are just short of 20,000 signatures. I have therefore decided that the time is right to deliver this petition and I shall be notifying Paul Wheelhouse and our own government the delivery of this to them via email.
Once this has been accepted, I will announce this too. Thereafter I will contact the press and make a statement regarding the delivery of the petition.
I will then step back. I have too much to do in my own life. The awareness raising of course I will do in letters to the press, but this is a subject everyone has to take part in for the democratic will of the people to count. I urge everyone to go to the planning page, look at the plans and make their own decision on how to respond, bearing in mind that this is a planning in principle application and that the issue here is not only what is being built on the ground (which is some way off it it ever happens) but the issue of selling our land in the first place, a profound area of this village and region on Loch Lomondside to a company.
The call is now everyone's - I have made my own case, I am not prepared to keep repeating myself and doing the work of others who are paid to inform us, debate with us and hold process to account.
Here is the link you need:
https://eplanning.lochlomond-trossachs.org/…/applicationDet…
Valid objections can be made on the following grounds:
parking or access
scale, massing, design
siting (location within the site) and materials
use of the land/buildings
residential amenity (noise, overshadowing)
***public amenity and landscape****
environmental impact
I will no longer be answering questions or debating. I am a private citizen like everyone else, I have had to find out everything so far from what I could and by researching....it is up to every citizen to do this also. I can do no more, except continue by expressing my own opinions in the press and where appropriate. I did not want to end up being someone who led campaigns, I only ever wanted to raise the questions no-one was asking and highlight the abominable situation this has become. The rest, is up to the people of this valley and the people of Scotland.
Be sure to look through all the updates I have made, and take on board the issues, and share them with others. This whole matter is up to you and I as people, and I wish to re-join the human race as an individual, a concerned citizen and regain my joys of life once more.
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