Secondrate development - par for the current course
"Secondrate development all around us " Its quite a claim to make , I know, but one I didn't do lightly - in my letters to the papers. Quality, after all, is the basic test of good planning. This doesn't mean that some development isn't first class, but that the system is, after decades of working better, stumbling around, printing paper and losing the plot . We're paying heavily to get the job half done, because no fear , no favor footprint assessmentrs are being done.
And I'm not going to identify all the secondrate projects I know of in the district. That would be too easy for the powerbrokers to pass charges over and thereby paste over the deeper cracks that cause the evidence around us . The point is - people in power too have lost the plot on professional planning and the last thing the public need is some powerful institutions to paste over the cracks--- and put out more of the unprofessional pedantry and pennypinching nonsense ( nice sounding words that appear to be so important ) they are so often good at .
This blog like so many, is about people power and professional power. Blogging is for those who seem to lose it to those in power who generate evil in the name of the best intention . The point of good politics and professional work is not to point out problems ( lots of us can do that) but to ....prevent them . maybe even fix them long term .
How many wonderful professional people in the public service have lost their jobs in the last decades in the land of "she'll be right" by trying to do what's right - they did their jobs very well nurses, teachers just to name a few --just trying to do their jobs . Pushed out of ,or pushed over in the rush to paint over the past or play ' we will try something new and better " games .
Dedicated today to just one more casualty we know of today - To Madam : well done for sticking at the coalface for so long and with such little credit for a job well done !
SOME LOCAL EXAMPLES
How would you like to find your half finished house project cancelled forever because you weren't told you were building on a landslide ( click here) , How would you like it if your Shire told you it was reducing its commitment to "the arts precinct" so its offices could grow .( click here)
How would you like to have be told ( developing one of the SW biggest economic projects in the SW in recent decades) that , having finished your 500 page environmental risk assesment report , you are going to have to write a whole new report because you ar going to have to shift major parts due to active landslides under it. Sound planning - we don't think !More elsewhere
And I'm not going to identify all the secondrate projects I know of in the district. That would be too easy for the powerbrokers to pass charges over and thereby paste over the deeper cracks that cause the evidence around us . The point is - people in power too have lost the plot on professional planning and the last thing the public need is some powerful institutions to paste over the cracks--- and put out more of the unprofessional pedantry and pennypinching nonsense ( nice sounding words that appear to be so important ) they are so often good at .
This blog like so many, is about people power and professional power. Blogging is for those who seem to lose it to those in power who generate evil in the name of the best intention . The point of good politics and professional work is not to point out problems ( lots of us can do that) but to ....prevent them . maybe even fix them long term .
How many wonderful professional people in the public service have lost their jobs in the last decades in the land of "she'll be right" by trying to do what's right - they did their jobs very well nurses, teachers just to name a few --just trying to do their jobs . Pushed out of ,or pushed over in the rush to paint over the past or play ' we will try something new and better " games .
Dedicated today to just one more casualty we know of today - To Madam : well done for sticking at the coalface for so long and with such little credit for a job well done !
SOME LOCAL EXAMPLES
How would you like to find your half finished house project cancelled forever because you weren't told you were building on a landslide ( click here) , How would you like it if your Shire told you it was reducing its commitment to "the arts precinct" so its offices could grow .( click here)
How would you like to have be told ( developing one of the SW biggest economic projects in the SW in recent decades) that , having finished your 500 page environmental risk assesment report , you are going to have to write a whole new report because you ar going to have to shift major parts due to active landslides under it. Sound planning - we don't think !More elsewhere
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