This uninspiring news is entirely in
keeping with the earlier action of flattening Swansea City FC’s former Vetch
Field to order to provide allotments. For many, it is another botched
‘strategic improvement’ by an administration which has blown most of its own
resources on ill-considered vanity projects over the years and is now unable to
even widen a road without the benefit of Welsh Government table-scraps.
No doubt the council’s spin corps – plus their
willing accomplices in the local media – will repeatedly herald the action as a significant investment move in
advance of work commencing next March.
On that point however the main opposition
group on Swansea Council should be asking why Labour minister Huw Lewis thought
it was OK to sanction a deal with a start date just months before next May’s elections
while keeping the local party hierarchy out the loop.
Perhaps the unhelpful timing escaped their
notice due to their current fixation with continuing
police investigations elsewhere. Just as well given the apparent ambivalence
from colleagues in Cardiff Bay.
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The Post were doing a softening up job last week with a "shopping feature" on how the area needed upgrading. Hey presto, just few days later the council comes to the rescue and buys the place. How contrived is that?
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