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- deni - 19-Mar-2011
I totally agree with Jono on this! Any media coverage, is bad coverage. The Evening Post doesn't do residents any favours and the TV coverage will only highlight the problems and make our properties de-value even more! And that's not the kind of help we need. Can we just all agree to seek legal representation and get this mess sorted. We are presuming that some sort of committee will be unveiled at the Liaison meeting on Monday. Everyone needs to be singing from the same hymn book - Compensation!
- noel - 19-Mar-2011
I'm very much in the back seat on this, living over a mile away but having empathy with the Bispham Ave. residents as I lived there from '74-'79, ( and Riverside Avenue before that) but I agree, national publicity is not going to help, it'll only devalue your property even more. The place isn't going to shut down, the main aim should be to get rid of the smell which is an absolute must, then compensation for those who have to look at the monstrosity from their living room windows!!!
Welcome to the forum Ann by the way. I hope you get your just compensation out of this shambles the old County Council has handed you.
- LDunlop76 - 20-Mar-2011
Welcome to the forum, Deni.
- will i am - 24-Mar-2011
Hi all, my sympathy goes to you, however, i live very near the Thornton Global Renewables site and have to say myself and the rest of the local ressies don't even know it's there. We attend the local meetings and are pleased with just about everything. It has provided a great deal of jobs (in this current climate is great) for the area and revamped a rundown area. I know I sound like I am for the opposition, but I can only praise GR for our area. Please don't take offence but it seems to be running as promised in Thornton so i am sure it will be sorted out soon (hopefully)
- Top Cat - 25-Mar-2011
Hi Will, My father in law lives in Fleetwood, and I previously worked there a long time ago, so I know the site and was actually up in Fleetwood on Wednesday. I appreciate that you have not had the same problems there that we have at Farington BUT were you aware that GR have had problems with odours there also (although apparently fairly quickly fixed)and that they have been under penalty. David Brewer, the Chief Excecutive admitted this at the Farington meeting on Monday. He had stated that GR wanted to be open and honest with residents but had not disclosed this fact until challenged. Interestingly, despite what the Company and LCC have always claimed representatives from the Environment Ageny, at the Farington meeting, stated that it was inevitable that there would occasionally be odours coming from the sites. Good luck, but keep asking the questions at your Liaison Meetings.
- noel - 25-Mar-2011
Welcome to the forum William.
- Gonzo66 - 26-Mar-2011
I live about a mile away from the site and the smell is horrendous some nights when I get home. Like a stagnant mop bucket in a hot basement full of damp flannels. But I do welcome the idea of falling house prices. I seem to have been born at the wrong time. The moment I thought of owning my own home the prices shot skyward. I have been chasing the deposit required with my savings ever since. The idea of £40k 'compensation' sickens me and I imagine will not gain much sympathy amongst others not of the baby boomer generation. I don't imagine many of the people affected are in negative equity. I think most of you have made a fortune on the buying price compared to the for sale value of your properties before the recycling site appeared. The aim should be getting rid of the smell and the site. The whole idea of the compensation culture angers me. Unless you where planning on selling your property before the site was built I think you should be reminded that a house is a place to live and not an investment. Fight the site, get it demolished, but talk of compensation to homeowners does not go down well with people with little chance of owning one, and renting until they drop dead at work at the age of 81.
- noel - 26-Mar-2011
I sympathise with you on that score. One of my sons is renting and simply cannot afford to get on the housing ladder. Property prices are a real knock back for the younger generation.
- LDunlop76 - 26-Mar-2011
I would have thought compensation was due to anyone living in the area affected by the smell, regardless of whether they rent or own their home. The compensation should be for the inconvenience of living with the stink.
- Peter Harris - 27-Mar-2011
Strange sentiment about home buying Gonzo - when anyone buys the prices go skyward - thats the nature of economic growth - unfortunatley shrinkage is rather more painful after you have bought. The trick is to ensure that you have the wherewithall to weather the storms that come up - such as looneys with uninformed green intentions who want to (a) get in politics, or (b) coerce politicians to build questionable unproven technology next door to your house.