Greenham Common control tower, an appalling eyesore..., .. why are Libdems making idiots of themselves trying to save this? Options

[Sherlock]

[dannyboy]

I have no idea if any business case has been issued.

AS far as I see it this building, like it or not, is part of the local history & unfortunately local councils do have a duty of care towards 'heritage' & what not. So are, duty bound to look after the little bit we have left.
other wise all the not so nice bits with any historical interest would be turned into flats or bulldozed to make way for flats.

If one local body can pass on the upkeep & care of the building to another, whilst returning the building to a useful local benefit, I can't see the problem.

Sitting on that flat roof of a summer evening after a blastround the common on the bike, drinking a pint sound like a good idea to me.

The lack of 'like minded people' is just symptomatic of modern culture. Peope more than likely don't even realise thay can do anything to 'save' this building, or any other.

[Simon Kirby]

AS far as I see it this building, like it or not, is part of the local history & unfortunately local councils do have a duty of care towards 'heritage' & what not. So are, duty bound to look after the little bit we have left.

Just on that specific point: no, you are mistaken. The Parish Council has no such duty. We have discussed in other threads how there are only two duties placed on a Parish Council, one is to receive accounts of parochial charities, and the other is to provide allotments.

It isn't even completely clear to me that a parish council even has a power to buy a building in order to turn it into a tea shop, though I'm guessing such a power may possibly exist, but I'd still be obliged is someone could cite the Act for me that creates the power.

[dannyboy]

Just on that specific point: no, you are mistaken. The Parish Council has no such duty. We have discussed in other threads how there are only two duties placed on a Parish Council, one is to receive accounts of parochial charities, and the other is to provide allotments.

It isn't even completely clear to me that a parish council even has a power to buy a building in order to turn it into a tea shop, though I'm guessing such a power may possibly exist, but I'd still be obliged is someone could cite the Act for me that creates the power.

I did say local councils

So a PC has no such actual legally defined role, but if they are the only ones who actually want to save a little bit of heritage so what.

I don't care if they do have the 'power' or not. If the local council wants to off load what must be a drain on resources to a group who want to turn that state of affairs around and if it happens that GPC are the only people who have the balls to come up with a viable plan to save the tower best of luck to them.