Hazel Smith wrote: > I have just had the decision notice from the Planning Inspectorate on > the Appeal for the hotel by the Jane Coston Bridge. That's good news in my opinion - if the owners/developers become less hopeful of ever blighting the spot with a dormitory 'hotel', and lose hope of a financial 'windfall', then the more chance of the field becoming something more compatible with greenbelt e.g. continuation of grazing, allotments, playing fields (probably not all those _are_ by default permitted in green-belt). Martyn Rayner wrote: > That's good then! as long as Milton keeps it's character, only problem > is most of it's character comes from the shops and pubs who could have > done with the Travelodge, and not from some useless flooded field. Couldn't disagree more. What possible benefit would a dormitory bring to shops and pubs? And fields aren't 'useless'. Even if they are flooded sometimes, which in this case is probably due to compaction of the ground by previous ill-advised use of the site (for storing road-building materials), then at least the flood-water is just in a field - where would the water be instead if we concrete over every bit of ground...?