That bl**dy marina!
Peter Cooper
Sutton on Sea's senior population has slapped down the Sandilands Marina
project once again, with the whole thing seemingly rather unlikely to be
raised again in the near future.
Perhaps I'm not in touch with today's older folk, but I fail to see the
problem.
A marina is something we are sorely missing on the Lincolnshire coast. The
sea is empty except for the odd tanker passing by and the odd brave swimmer.
Wouldn't it be nice to have regattas, and to see yachts making use of our
stretch of the North Sea?
Secondly, it'll provide some much needed jobs to the area, and would
primarily be used by richer older types with yachts. Property price
increases would also be on the cards. Crowds and business wouldn't be a
problem, as marinas don't really attract 'crowds', and a marina would
improve the caliber of tourist around here from Peugeot driving families
from Bradford to wine and cheese evening couples from Horncastle. Marinas
are generally not places that attract hordes of lager pouring yobs, but
wine-supping older folk, so I can't see what the big problem is. Anyone care
to enlighten me?
Or are they just peeved because it means a few holes on the Sandilands golf
course (read: local outdoor creche for the over 50s) will be out of action
for a few months while they're moved? That sounds more like it.
Pete
David Quinton
<news...@boog.co.uk> wrote:
>Once again it appears the combined wisdom of Anderby Creek, Huttoft and
>Sutton on Sea's senior population has slapped down the Sandilands Marina
>project once again, with the whole thing seemingly rather unlikely to be
>raised again in the near future.
Here's one Creek-dweller who has heard no discussion of it whatsoever.
I think it would be a good thing.
Did you know that ther ewere plans, back in the 1930s, to landscape
all the way from Sandilands up to Anderby Creek? I think a Marina was
included.
Mind you, there's already several Marinas in Sutton.
They're parked next to the Skodas and Maxis...
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Peter Cooper
> all the way from Sandilands up to Anderby Creek? I think a Marina was
> included.
Vaguely. We bought some home made book about the Sutton area, and it had
numerous art-deco style plans for such a thing. Wasn't it going to be called
'Seatopia' or something similarly futuristic? Unfortunately, Anderby Creek
isn't going to become the next Dawson's Creek any time soon.
> Mind you, there's already several Marinas in Sutton.
> They're parked next to the Skodas and Maxis...
Heh.
I believe the new proposals were put forward in 2000, and plans were put up
for public viewing in the Grange & Links (Sandilands) for a number of weeks.
A meeting was held at the end of it all, and supposedly things were going to
go ahead.
The local rag (dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-Leader!) was full of letters from
older folk whining about how the marina would attract hoards of kids into
the area. And the following week, it was full of letters from younger folk
about how the older folk were ancient relics with no sense of adventure.
This area seems to have a long history of never getting anywhere, with the
proposed Mablethorpe swimming pool, the proposed Tescos at Mablethorpe, and
even a /coke machine/ in Sutton getting the thumbs down.
Interestingly, the owner of the coke machine (and, indeed, the whole Sutton
'Beach Bar') lives just down our road, and has managed to 'persuade' the
council to let him do all manner of things ;-) Perhaps if the Marina people
had some more money, they could do some 'persuading' of their own.
(A little bit of trivia.. the house in the middle of the Sandilands golf
course has been up for sale for over a year, so that it can knocked down, to
readjust the golf course for the proposed marina.)
Pete
David Quinton
<news...@boog.co.uk> wrote:
>> Did you know that ther ewere plans, back in the 1930s, to landscape
>> all the way from Sandilands up to Anderby Creek? I think a Marina was
>> included.
>
>Vaguely. We bought some home made book about the Sutton area, and it had
>numerous art-deco style plans for such a thing. Wasn't it going to be called
>'Seatopia' or something similarly futuristic? Unfortunately, Anderby Creek
>isn't going to become the next Dawson's Creek any time soon.
That's it!
It's also in one of the more mainstream history books that I think I
have here somewhere.
Anderby Creek needs *less* development and not more!
>The local rag (dunna-dunna-dunna-dunna-Leader!) was full of letters from
>older folk whining about how the marina would attract hoards of kids into
>the area. And the following week, it was full of letters from younger folk
>about how the older folk were ancient relics with no sense of adventure.
I get the Skeg paper rather than the Mabo or Alford one - so they
don't bother do mention anything oop north! Chapel comes under Skeg -
and I tend to shop in Chapel or Skeg most of the time.
The Co-Op in Chapel seems far better managed than the Alford one.
>
>This area seems to have a long history of never getting anywhere, with the
>proposed Mablethorpe swimming pool, the proposed Tescos at Mablethorpe, and
>even a /coke machine/ in Sutton getting the thumbs down.
>
>Interestingly, the owner of the coke machine (and, indeed, the whole Sutton
>'Beach Bar') lives just down our road, and has managed to 'persuade' the
>council to let him do all manner of things ;-) Perhaps if the Marina people
>had some more money, they could do some 'persuading' of their own.
>
>(A little bit of trivia.. the house in the middle of the Sandilands golf
>course has been up for sale for over a year, so that it can knocked down, to
>readjust the golf course for the proposed marina.)
Aha. Was it well overpriced?
Peter Cooper
<sarcasm>Yeah, I guess it's way too crowded already, what with the Drainage
Museum dragging in the crowds and all.</sarcasm> !
> Aha. Was it well overpriced?
I did say it was in Sandilands ;-)
BTW, I thought you lived near the surgery in Chapel, and not in Anderby
Creek?
Pete
David Quinton
<news...@boog.co.uk> wrote:
>> Anderby Creek needs *less* development and not more!
>
><sarcasm>Yeah, I guess it's way too crowded already, what with the Drainage
>Museum dragging in the crowds and all.</sarcasm> !
It's the fields full of Lincolnshire's most valuable Cash Crop that
annoy me.
Mobile homes!
>BTW, I thought you lived near the surgery in Chapel, and not in Anderby
>Creek?
No. The surgery is by the Chapel Telephone exchange. There's a
microwave dish on the exchange pointing towards another dish on a pole
by the Creek car park. That's how we get our "big" ISDN - ISDN30 used
for our incoming Premium rate phone stuff.
Peter Cooper
> microwave dish on the exchange pointing towards another dish on a pole
> by the Creek car park. That's how we get our "big" ISDN - ISDN30 used
> for our incoming Premium rate phone stuff.
Sex lines based in Anderby Creek! Scandal! The paper will be hearing about
this!
Pete