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Further Watergate Bay / Extreme Academy / Watergate Bay Hotel / Fifteen Cornwall Restaurant / Jamie Oliver  etc etc etc Mastications 1.

The events of 31st July 2006 ( Retrospective ): 

As foretold by Shaz at:
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there was a kerfuffle at Restormel Borough Council offices on  July 31st regarding a crafty plan to asset strip the car park at Watergate Bay , near Tregurrian:

http://www.newquayvoice.co.uk/nvnews/ne ... c246cecfeb


The Ashworth Brothers - Extreme Environmental Hypocrites....

It is strikingly paradoxical that the Ashworth Brothers who, through extreme hypermarketeering, have done the most to degrade and overload the privately owned beach at Watergate Bay and its surroundings with gross overdevelopment ;cause extreme coast road congestion; stimulate disproportionate associated luxury apartment construction for non-residential purposes in the valley above; exacerbate particulate and chemical contamination across the upper atmosphere by promoting gross fossil fuel consumption via Newquay airport traffic as an adjunct to their business; over-stuff the sea with a surfeit of novice ‘ surfers ’ to the detriment of overall public safety and enjoyment of the ocean - should be the first and loudest to squeal when Restormel Borough Council raises the anti-community idea of selling off the public amenity green field car park at Watergate bay to even more profiteering opportunists.

Of course Restormel Borough Council is renowned for pandering to external commercial interests and permitting the trashing of the environment of the central band of Cornwall with ill-considered construction ‘projects’:

( see: http://www.carlyonbaywatch.co.uk/news )

and propping up the immoral iniquity of houses being bought for holidays with unnecessary and un’affordable’ house building which serves the interests of opportunistic profiteers more than anyone else.

In this instance Restormel Borough Council really should remind itself of its primary duty of care and responsibility for the greater overall public good and abandon any idea of disposing of this valuable public leisure and recreation resource to any external operation, developer or otherwise.

At the same time the Ashworth Brothers should be more self-critical and review their role, by way of their out of control hypermarketeering of the ‘ Extreme ‘ Academy, the Watergate Bay Hotel, the Beach Hut restaurant and other ancillary activities such as the ' Extreme ' ' Academy ' ' Surfing ' Exploitation Factory:


( now with the additional Jamie Oliver fuss factor :


http://www.nowpublic.com/has_jamie_bitt ... _be_chewed ), in causing this situation in the first place by overdoing the commercialisation of the privately owned beach at Watergate Bay and bringing the attention of avaricious real estate developers to bear on what the Ashworths themselves have turned into a concreters’ klondike.

As partners and members of the Watergate Bay Environmental Tourism Trust (WETT) the Ashworth brothers really should have demanded more of themselves. Let’s hope their attempt to persuade Restormel Borough Council to retain the green field car park for their own business benefit and, by happy coincidence, the wider public good proves successful and marks a turning point from where they then apply themselves to protecting Watergate Bay from the damaging consequences of their own activities as well as those of others.

 


 

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