CIBA
Submitted by Sean McGonigle on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 09:43.
Marilyn emailed to ask Sean McGonigle:I believe in the cleaner greener Manchester but has Openshaw beenforgotten?For more than a year residents of Openshaw Village has putup with the dust and noise during the demolision of CIBA. Now workseems to have ground to a halt as there has been no activity on sitefor 2 weeks (the email was written on 24th April 2008). The first phase of Dreyfus Village starts 2010. Does that meanthe mountains of crushed rubble on Clayton Lane facing the houses cancontinue to blow over the housing estate for another 2 years?Going towork, shopping or walking the children to school is not very pleasant as you can smell and taste the dust. Cars, windows and doors have apermanent film of dust on them.Here is Sean's video response:
how boring is watching sean mcgonigle with no volume! but i checked my volume and low and behold, its just another waste of minutes because it was a technoglitch! what on earth was he expecting us to believe now? maybe we'll never know now! Silence really could in this case be golden... good question though marilyn - i wonder if he'd ever tackle the motorbikes and drugdealers on the village? ever??
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I would have thought that the mounds could be covered in some way, and this should have been one of the first considerations when creating them.
Yet again the community comes in second to developement, had the community known that these mounds were to be in place for more than a year, then this problem might have been highlighted earlier and a solution found.
One thing you did mention was contamination, and I would be very concerned for the childrens health with all this contaminated dust flying about, and I hope proper monitoring will be in place when the contaminated soil is moved off site, could be another disaster waiting to happen.
Cheers
Technoboy
I finally heard seans response once you'd sorted out your technoglitches!
Firstly - i'm pleased that he eventually got round to answering that "yes the mounds of rubble will be there for quite a while " a year or two i think he insinuated....and why it was necessary - i agree with technoboy that the mounds should most definately be covered especially if they have any kind of contamination risk - which is something i hadn't really thought of until sean covered that! I am appauled that so many residents have had no choice but to put up with that. I hope peoples health are being properly monitored?? Would this knowledge encourage those "no win no fee" businesses to the area i wonder?? Covers would also help prevent the little kids who somehow manage to get in amongst those piles of rubble and chuck the matter across clayton lane, even at cars! would you believe it??!!
Secondly - something that caused me great intrigue!! The TV aerials - Sean please have another word with harrow if they think they have succeeded any quality in that department, a token gesture it may of been, terrestorial channel transmissions are usually fine, but to recieve any consistent digital "freeview" channels (after all we are a "deprived" area) then many of the openshaw village residents have had to go the extra expense of purchasing their own individual booster aerials and considering normal tv is on its way to extinction, then harrow, nor yourself should be singing their praises in them offering token gestures that aren't that aren't actually much use, if any! A communal aerial was something for the area that sufficed for its era - but for this day and age, i think they could of utilised a better technological means of transmission - something for this era maybe!
As for your close relationship with Harrow, what else could anyone expect really? Same with lovell and gleeson. If you tell them to do something then yes, they accomodate your requests - BUT when jo public asks them a simple thing, eg, to move a tractor thats blocking the road whilst its driver is away for whatever reason - other workers instruct you to drive up the high edging blocks or to wait for ten minutes till the driver returns (especially a nightmare if you need to visit cornerstones!!) causes us residents stress, resentment, unnecessary delays and its certainly not good for an old banger of a car!
In 1999 when new deal for communities first came to "rescue" our area - i can't think of anyone who wasn't initially sceptical! It took your team a couple of years to win people over - to your credit - but then what happened? You began to include the community in abundance - but over time, now you've achieved YOUR goal, obtain low cost land and build houses, you have in the process alienated the people who you once made feel had a reason to contribute to their local community - by just expecting them to put up with the consequences of the "investors". I really thought your vision was to focus on changing peoples life long moral attitudes for the better, not just to cosmetically enhance the area and divide the community further...
maybe thats for another question another day, but I'm pleased to hear you are "mindful" of the impact of the regeneration in many many ways - so please also be mindful that we know what you say goes!
hello, it might sound daft, sorry, but would you be able to print what you are saying because i wanted to pick up on a point you made but i have to start at the start of the video again and i can't always properly understand what you're saying becasue of the accent so could you print what you say please. thankyou
Hello,
the text of the question I asked Sean (which was put forward by Marilyn) is shown above.
However if you are referring to Sean's response it would probably take some time to transcribe and post the whole reply online. However if there is a short part of his response you would like to read please let me know and I'll see what I can do.
David Kay
MCIN
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