I don’t know why, but WBB appear to have absolutely nobody on board with any imagination whatsoever. The company is in dire need of a designer bod to generate ideas when it comes to clearing up their dirty mess each time they leave an empty quarry behind them.
They truly seem to only work along the lines of..............
"...........derrr we dig it all out and then derrr, we fill it all in again with tons of water...... summat like that anyway.......”
Another toxic lake is hardly high on our list of tourism ‘must haves’, not mine anyway, and I doubt not most of the people about to lose the sight of green pastures at Grandcourt Farm.
Maybe it’s time we started demanding what will be acceptable to this village, to replace these utterly barren, poisonous and potentially lethal water holes they seem to be so fond of? After all we will still be living here long after this company has packed up its silicosis activation diggers and moved out. Living here almost certainly harbouring some nasty illnesses – true – but living here we shall be - after all as I mentioned in my first piece, home buyers aren’t exactly going to be knocking at our newly painted ‘silica sandy’ covered front doors, asking us to sell up are they?
So surely we should be the ones to dictate, yes I did say dictate, what should stand in the place of the ruined Grandcourt Farm, after its desolate and craggy demise? Something other than a very large, scabby, boils and blisters water attraction?
We need ideas, ideas that unfortunately may well cost WBB considerable sums of money to do, (nothing worthwhile ever came cheap), and maybe, it will be even necessary for them to be responsible in setting it up and initially running it as well?
So this is my idea, it’s just to get your old brain cells working so that you can all come up with your own - after all it’s YOUR village, not theirs, it should be what YOU want not them. Personally I think my idea is a winner though!
How's about an indoor permanent ice skating rink with ringside seating, a cafe/restaurant and plenty of car parking? There are none anywhere for locals or even for those living in Kings Lynn. This is why nobody uses the Christmas holiday ice rink that’s set up in the Tuesday Market Place in Kings Lynn every year, because nobody in the area has the opportunity to learn to skate! Only Norwich and Peterborough have ice skating rinks.
It would give us jobs, a great facility for family fun and is in demand. Ice skating has been growing since TV’s Dancing on Ice started a few years ago, I should know, I travelled to Peterborough every Saturday for a year then gave up because of the distance and constant road works! (Passed my first 3 N.I.C.E. grades though! LOL!) Suffolk is looking forward to an indoor winter sports development including an ice rink, why shouldn't Norfolk get something? Particularly as it is suffering so badly with the negative aspects of these quarries.
We can't allow WBB to assume that they can continue lazily refilling toxic silica holes with water that in turn becomes toxic, and think it is an acceptable replacement for destroying the landscape whilst making us ill and seriously depleting our standard of living! They do this because it is the cheapest option, they then wrap it and present the package as ‘beautiful reconstruction scenery’. Yeah right! It’s like the Marie Celeste out there! They haven’t even given any thought to the possibility of flooding down the years, that’s just another little problem we could be envisaging.
WBB are going to have to, must, give BACK to the villagers - give back something of USE. I think the best way they can do that at the Grandcourt site is to provide something that generates employment, and encourages tourism, family leisure time and children’s interests - not by providing a collection of oversized contaminated duck-less flood ponds.
The birds know it – the bees know it, the rest of the wildlife and trees know it,
WBB know it –
‘Love just don’t breed near toxic weed……’
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What's so great about having a very deep lake that's too deep and dangerous to swim in?
(It's no good for local people)
Oh, and having it specially designed so they won't be suitable for large birds so as not to endanger passing jets from RAF Marham...
(It's no good for birds)
I'm struggling to see what the attraction is...
Just what will they be suitable for...
Flooding?
So potentially devastating for every nearby house owner...
However, they will be cheap for WBB to produce, so WBB will benefit, but I fail to see how anybody else will.
Will somebody enlighten me?
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