James Pertwee says: Thu 23rd Apr 2009, 09:49 AM
http://www.southportforums.com/forums/s ... ge=3&pp=30
Actually, I know EXACTLY what efforts went into saving the Cyclone.
A rag-tag bunch of disorganised hopefuls, small in number and lacking the necessary common sense and legal acumen necessary to prevent such a tragedy from happening, unlike other organisations/campaigns in Blackpool or Margate.
It is exactly how I said - the people of Southport care little or nothing for the area, which is why further catastrophies are allowed to happen with little care or opposition. If you look at the posts on this website last year, it reinstates exactly what i've just said.
You reap what you sow as they say.....
Absolute bullsh*t
And I also recall Marcus Binney, international architectural historian, architecture correspondent of the Times, and President of SAVE Britain's Heritage
www.savebritainsheritage.org writing to Sefton Council to ask for a temporary preservation order, to give us more time. It didn't even respond. EH was not allowed onto the site to assess the rides properly. SAVE's Buildings at Risk Officer tried also to persuade Sefton by phone, and I even got Health and Safety involved in order to see if asbestos would give us some time!
I tried PBB, many times, but they didn't want to know, wouldn't even properly answer calls, the PR person was dreadful.
Other things were tried. I gave over a vast amount of my time to trying to prevent Cyclone and the other rides being bulldozed. However, when someone is as determined as Amanda Thompson was, it's hard to do a great deal.
I also have the 'legal acumen' as did others involved, but English Heritage and the DCMS between them messed it all up.
What happenened wasn't unlawful, so nothing could be done such as an injunction.
I still have the correspondence. After that the DCMS altered how it operated...
See Page 4 of this:
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/re ... 31_e_c.pdf
and tell me this is a ragbag collection of people with no acumen reporting the loss of Cyclone!
Possibly someone who can log on to the site can suggest Mr Pertwee read this site? And this thread? And perhaps he can then tell us how involved he has ever been in saving buildings and how he knows what happened? I wasn't aware he had access to my e-mails, my correspondence, and my telephone calls? Or those of others?
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