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Preston Vision Board - Private Developers Marketing Subsidised With Public Money

Riversider | 25.03.2007 16:52 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Free Spaces | Liverpool

Preston Vision Board want to build a barrage in the Ribble to create a Marina, and build 4000 houses in the greenfield land nearby. Now that we know WHO Preston Vision Board are, we learn that they include representatives of companies that make their money by building marinas and developing property - so why is this board being supported with public money and officer's time, by the very councils that they are trying to sell their expensive and environmentally disastrous ideas to?

Save The Ribble has found out the identities of the members of the Preston Vision Board - the group that, with the support of Preston City Council, and consultancy firm GVA Grimley has published glossy leaflets advocating the building of a barrage across the Ribble and 4000 houses in the greenbelt nearby.

The members are largely representatives of local quangos, but who the few private sector representatives are makes very interesting reading.

First of all, of course, is Grosvenor Estates - a major property developer, belonging to the 3rd richest man in the country.

Also interesting is Jeremy Gorick, he is joint managing director of Flexcrete, a company that "manufactures a range of concrete repair materials and protective coatings for buildings and civil engineering structures, the water industry and marine structures, as well as specialist products such as car park decking systems and waterproof floor coatings".

So the situation is that we have representatives of a firm that supplies sprayed concrete technologies used in the construction of marinas, and a firm who's business is the development of housing and commercial properties, advocating the construction of an enormous marina, and the development of large amounts of housing and commercial properties along the Ribble, and being supported in these plans with public money from the NWDA, and the time of Preston and South Ribble Council Officers. Council officers who are incidentally paid by local council tax payers - who don't want to see the beautiful countryside by the Ribble turned into a housing estate, and it's precious environment destroyed by a barrage.

Here's the list of members, as supplied by Nicola Turner, Preston City Vision Manager:

Malcom McVicar (UCLAN)
Jeremy Gorick (Iotech/Liquid Plastics/Flexcrete)
Keith Scott (Retired Architect)
Steve Jackson (New Reg Dot Com)
Grosvenor Estates
Khalid Saifullah (ABF Ent)
Alan Roff (Preston Strategic Partnership); (& UCLan)
David Borrow MP
Paul Spooner (English Partnership)
Jim Carr (Preston City Council)
Steve Dean (LCDL)
Jean Hunter (SRDC)
Denis Taylor (Lancashire Economic Partnership)

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River Works and the Preston Vision Board

01.05.2007 15:55

Misinformation is a powerful weapon in any propaganda war as is the cobbling together of half truths and misconceptions.

So for the sake of the record Flexcrete Limited no longer exists and never made products that could be used to construct marinas. The company specialised in the refurbishment of existing concrete structures.

My involvement in the Vision Board stems from a belief that local firms have a part to play in developing our city and that by providing a better built envirnoment we can enhance peoples lives.

I hope that readers of this blog will reflect on the motives of those who wish to mislead them.

Can I encourage anyone who wishes to understand my motivations and the facts to contact me directly at LPL, Iotech House Miller Street, Preston PR1 1EA

Jeremy Gorick
mail e-mail: jeremygorick@hotmail.co.uk


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