Wasteful to demolish (From Harrow Times)

Wasteful to demolish

9:54am Thursday 25th September 2008 in

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I agree with Gareth Thomas MP who says: “it is good news if the present leisure centre is not going to close”. In the leading article of September 11, what strange language has been used, eg: “...people should look beyond protests and criticism.” It is every citizen’s right to do so and councillors and their plans are not exempt from it.

That the prospect of not being able to demolish a perfectly solid multi-million, bricks and mortar leisure centre constitutes a “rainy day” is absurd. Reduce, reuse, recycle should be the mantra of all good local councils. Demolishing and rebuilding compounds every problem that we have made for ourselves. This is super consumerism, over-indulgent and wasteful and our planet cannot afford it.

We really do have to make bold adjustments and find ways and means of conserving what we have, using our ingenuity and imagination in order to be more self-sufficient.

Jenny Hunt
Harrow Green Party
Salisbury Road, Harrow

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Richard_at_Harrow says...
12:55pm Thu 25 Sep 08

Don't quite agree with you Jenny - but I support re-use - that's why we must support our aviation industry. Each day they re-use their planes to ferry people around the world. A jumbo can last 20+ years. To date jumbos have ferried 3 billion people – half the world’s population. How’s that for re-use?

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Richard_at_Harrow says...
5:35pm Fri 3 Oct 08

To Jenny,
How large is your carbon footprint?
How large is your family?
Are you a vegetarian?
Do you drive a car?
How efficient is your home?
What bold adjustments have you made to your lifestyle?

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Cllr Jeremy Zeid says...
11:45pm Fri 10 Oct 08

Another (anything but, but really deep red) "Green".

A new centre would have been more compact, more energy efficient and with more modern up-to-date facilities and design.

As Jenny Hunt well knows, the old materials are almost all recycled and reused, but that fact gets in the way of a regressive, boring red-"Green" rant.

The red-"Greens" themselves positively encourage more energy efficient buildings but vonly on their terms.

Still, Labours cack-handed destruction of the economy and land value collapse, means that replacement of the Leisure Centre is off the menu.

Unlike ZaNuLabour we will not saddle residents with an expensive unsustainable edifice that cannot be self-funded. So the centre stays, inefficient heating, inpossible to insulate further, the lot, and for the red-"Greens" that is seen as good.

There are some genuine and ingenious real Green people, it is a shame that it is the swivel eyed whackos and fanatics who bring the whole ideal into disrepute and ridicule.

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