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Stand Up For Seaton (SU4S)

Community Action for Seaton's Regeneration Area, 80% owned by Tesco - a floodplain on a World Heritage site bordered by nature reserves, tidal river, the sea and the unspoilt town. SU4S is a state of mind - no members, no structure, no politics. SU4S has objected to 2 planning applications by Tesco, including one for a massive superstore/dot com distribution centre which led to the recent closure on the site of 400 tourist beds with the loss of 150 jobs,a gym and pool - all used by locals.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Stonehenge may lose its World Heritage status

From "The Sunday Times", 22 July 2007:

The government is planning to scrap a tunnel under the road at Stonehenge.

"Rejection means that the planned £67m Visitor Centre, from which mini-buses would have taken visitors to the site, will be shelved, as its location was dependent on the tunnel."

"It could also jeopardise the status of Stonehenge as a World Heritage site, awarded by UNESCO in 1986. At the time, the United Nations cultural body told the government that it must improve access and take nearby roads away from the site. UNESCO will consider de-listing Stonehenge at its next meeting in February".

So, on the World Heritage Jurassic Coast you (a) build a tatty visitor centre sandwiched between a Tramway Terminus and an enormous supermarket, nowhere in site of the sea or the river and you get your tourists to share the supermarket car park, (b) you still allow oil supertankers to meet up with smaller tankers in Lyme Bay to transfer oil, none of it to or from British ships and none of it for British use, simply because the oil companies pay the government lots of money to do it in the relative shelter of the Bay and (c) you allow a broken ship to beach along the World Heritage Coast because the French won't take it, Plymouth won't take it and Falmouth won't take it.

So, what is Lyme Bay? Part of the World Heritage Jurassic Coast or a dumping ground for tat and oil?

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