Undemocratic
ARE there no lengths to which Sutton Harbour Holdings will go in their pursuit of financial gain for it's shareholders?
With its now revealed plans to bulldoze and extinguish Plymouth airport as if it had never existed, demonstrating yet again its powers to override and ignore Plymouth City Council as if it never existed, is it not time to call a halt to its apparently dictatorial powers?
To give authority to what seem to be executive powers, should not SHH's at least appear as a political party on local ballot papers in local elections?
Otherwise, yet again, even more Plymothians will have good reason for not troubling to cast their vote and the local democratic process rendered farcical.
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Comments
by karenroth
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 2:41PM
“As I understand it, they don't own the land, it's leased.”
by Ant__
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 1:13PM
“Unlike local authorities, private companies are almost totally unencumbered by the need to be accountable to the public for their actions. Why is there any surprise at all that a plc acts in the interests of profit for its shareholders ?”
by timplymouth
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 9:41AM
“And they won't be able to do anything with the land unless a future council reclassifies the land. If you want to stop this from happening write to Tudor demanding that the land NEVER be reclassified as anything other than an airport.”
by CharlieDodd
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 9:16AM
“As i understand it, SHH could do absolutely nothing with the airport land if a previous labour council hadn't signed a lease allowing them to do it. SHH are in the development business so they must have thought christmas had come early.
As Zsa-Zsa Gabor once said-"If a man is dumb enough to give me a diamond, I'm certainly not dumb enough to refuse it"”
by niugnepyzarc
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 9:13AM
“What's not to understand.....private company owns land.....does what's best to make a profit out of said land......the only thing undemocratic would be tearing up the idea of private property and forcing then to use the land for an unviable business that was making a huge loss is pcc.”
by fiest1406
Wednesday, September 05 2012, 8:50AM
“I fully agree...seems odd that a private company can have complete control over a supposedly democratic system ? Unless it is part of it?”