This week’s Newark Advertiser readers’ letters
Why did it take so long?
For many years Newark and Sherwood has had empty building not being protected, empty properties, often commercial buildings - Work is set to take place to transform the historic 300-year-old Ollerton Hall that has stood vacant for 50 years, it now has planning permission to turn them into apartments. The Robin Hood Hotel in Newark, a landmark building, stood derelict for over two decades after its closure in 1999 before being transformed into a Travelodge hotel.
The Lilley and Stone School, Newark has stood empty for 9 years, Woods Court former Care home is empty, The Oaks and Little Oaks Care Home (The Oaks & Little Oaks), 172 London Road, Balderton, Newark-on-Trent NG24 3BN has also standing empty. The Corner exchange Newark stood empty for years which is now a night club, located in the town Centre. The question "why did it NOT have someone lived in to safeguard the properties in the first place? It would be good to setup a Guardianship to safeguard our properies across the District.
An empty Property guardianship offers the best solution where an individuals live in and protect vacant properties, at a lower cost than traditional renting, while the property owner benefits from security and reduced risks. Guardians secure the property, preventing issues like squatters, anti-social behaviour and vandalism, and often enjoy more affordable, flexible living arrangements. Not only do property owners benefit from having their vacant buildings protected. Guardians pay lower rent than market rates in exchange for maintaining the property and ensuring its security.
Cllr Laurence Goff
I would like to see, as a resident of Newark and Sherwood District the final cost of the installation of the Kiddey Stones, plus the cost of the referendum prior to the negative vote by residents on the decision to install. As I have said previously, this was nothing more than a vanity project by certain Councillors, they were commissioned and sculpted by Robert Kiddey to represent manual workers in the power supply industry. There are many areas in the County where the sighting of the sculptures would have been more appropriate, certainly not outside NSDC offices.
Regards Mike Frettsome.
Back in April, The Advertiser published my letter ‘Climate policies will affect growth’. In that letter, I recalled that in 2009, the Obama government introduced the infamous Endangerment Finding which stated that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants and trap heat in the atmosphere. This allegation formed the basis for all President Biden’s green subsidies and his restrictive regulations but had no basis in ‘hard’ science
Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lee Zeldin, was tasked with reassessing the suspect science used as the basis for the Endangerment Finding. If it were to be overturned, then all those subsidies would have been unnecessary and may have been illegal, and many restrictive regulations would need to be withdrawn.
Now I can report that a decisive decision has been made to remove the Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding and this will represent a pivotal shift in America’s approach to climate policy. For years, this “finding” served as the legal justification for an array of costly, far-reaching regulations targeting everything from their power plants to the cars they drive, and the energy bills they pay.
Its removal is a direct response to mounting evidence that the basis for this rule was always more about speculative modeling and political maneuvering than sound science.
This means that the ‘global consensus’ that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants and trap heat in the atmosphere was, and is, unscientific. Those who were skeptical about the idea of ‘settled science’ have been proved correct. The consequences of this determination will be far reaching for growth in America and may be catastrophic for the idea of Net Zero in the UK.
The whole panic over catastrophic climate change and the inference that bad weather will go away if we stop burning fossil fuels was based on speculative modelling and may have wasted enormous spending for no benefit to anyone except the green energy industry!
If we wish to improve the human condition everywhere, we need to expand access to reliable, affordable energy. Climate Change should be seen as a challenge not a catastrophe and this is especially true for those of us who live in England’s green and pleasant land. - ROBERT SHEPPARD, Beckingham.
Newark not on sea
It’s been very hot and sunny,
But it does seem rather funny
That although there’s a sandy beach,
The sea appears out of reach.
I know the tide goes in and out,
We’ve had some rain; there is no drought.
The answer really baffles me
I love to watch the surging sea.
Please Newark, can you sort it out
We want something to shout about.
So next year will you add the sea
And make a very happy me!!
- Rosemary M. Pratt, via email