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HAVE Selling price of Gardeners Weird -
Weird -

Inn seems outrageous

People think I’m weird because
I choose to buy a small tin of
I read with interest the article in property had increased substantially looking at boarded up shops. It tomatoes even though it costs
more than a large tin of toma-
YOUR last month’s Ilkeston Life detailing over that 12 year period, but not would also mean more local custom- toes (same brand).
the pub. As a residential property
ers living close to existing shops in
the current situation of the above
SAY requested by the recent purchasers around £300,000. local businesses. throw away what you don’t want.
They say buy the large tin and
it could have attracted a figure of
their area, generating revenue for
property at Cossall. £350,000
But if everyone did that, as well as
I notice on Homes under the Ham-
The Gardeners Inn appears to have
seems outrageous - what figure is
being wasteful, it would give the
mer that many individual property
arrived at a similar situation to
that based on?
manufacturer the perfect excuse
The £350,000 is obviously why
ing derelict/deteriorated properties
purchase should be no more than
the selling price has been set high, us and the value for the locals to developers are buying, and improv- to phase out the small tin and de-
prive the elderly and single people
based on gaining future planning around £150,000, based on trade and shops, gaining profit through of what they prefer.
permission for housing development. figures. It would be interesting to renting out after modernising and I loved the Co-op supermarket on
However, planning permission has learn how much the developers paid improving or converting property South Street because they always
not been submitted or obtained as for the pub, (with a view to housing to residential use. Isn’t it time local stocked small tins, jars and packs
yet. However, in this situation, any development). planning offices/officers got to grips which, as well as being preferred,
potential purchaser of a public house We have seen how important local with permitting changes/alterations were less heavy to carry.
should request sight of the last 3/4 pubs have become in villages and to properties at a much speedier rate. We no longer have the Co-op
years accounts. The value of the local communities, sometimes as the Some small developers have to wait Department store – Ilkeston’s
property is related directly to the only means of regular contact with 9months to gain planning permission biggest shopping attraction –
trade the pub has been doing, NOT others. Aren’t we all supposed to be - its pathetic! Meantime how many because of the short-sightedness
compared to the estimated valuation making efforts to lower the damage people in the Derbyshire area are of so-called savvy shoppers. They
of a residential property in the local of COVID isolation and lower the awaiting decent council property and would go into the Co-op to inspect
area. increasing mental health problems young potential purchasers endeav- the washing machine or other
I experienced directly the difficulty I through loneliness. ouring to get on the property ladder? large purchase they were inter-
had trying to sell a local pub. It was Yes, we need housing, I suspect Let’s stop searching for new building ested in, then go away and buy it
an attractive stone built property 300 there are a number of shop closures sites and get rid of the backlog of online to save a few pounds.
Get in touch with years old. We bought the property in Cossall as there is everywhere derelict shops/houses by bringing Result: No Co-op. Now it’s flats.
What a loss to our town.
your views in 1991 for £137,000, not realising else. Instead of leaving the empty them back into use now. I’m pleased the small shops in
Broxtowe Borough Council should
properties to deteriorate why not
By email preferably: the value should have been based on convert these to houses/flats. Local give very serious consideration to all Ilkeston are bucking the trend and
trade figures (which were not avail-
letters@ilkestonlife.com able). NOT on bricks and mortar. councils could create a revenue the costs and benefits of one housing doing well at the moment. Lots of
them are flying the flag for us with
By post: When we wished to sell the pub in stream, help the locals and remove development or enhancing the local great products and service. They
The Editor, Ilkeston Life, 2001 we were told it’s value was the eyesore many of these empty Cossall shopping and living expe- deserve our support. Let’s use
rience both from a business, social
have become, which in turn would
1 Bath Street, Ilkeston, related to the trade figures.. Valua- enhance the overall image of the and health viewpoint. them before we lose them.
Derbyshire DE7 8AH tion after 12 years of trying to make area. Nothing more depressing than Maureen Shepherd You only have to look at the
it successful - £125,000. All local
Let it flow, The dangers of Do we need
let it flow, trigger
let it flow warnings?
...Seems to be the policy 5G technology I was looking forward to watch-
of the Water Companies. ing a programme on The Impe-
The profits flow in and the rial War Museum the other day,
raw sewage flows out into
our streams, rivers and A few weeks ago, this paper re- frequencies to the human body, the the signal strength of a normal mo- but I decided not to watch it.
eventually the sea. ported on the outcome of a meet- signals are capable of disrupting bile phone is required to ‘escape’ the Why? Because it came with a
Locally Erewash Council ing in which Erewash Borough the neural pathways of the brain, or interior of the average building. ‘trigger warning’ that there were
want to build thousands Council granted permission for heart rhythms, the immune system And because of the shorter wave- images of wars which some may
of houses in the greenbelt the erection of a 250ft mast for and the functioning of internal or- lengths, arrays of sub-masts are be offended or scared by.
around Ilkeston. But infra- gans and blood cells. often required every few houses It’s a programme about a WAR
structure can’t cope with 5G in the Long Eaton area. Of course, children are even more distant, usually located in or on MUSEUM, so what do you
what we’ve got already. However, the committee appears to vulnerable due to their skulls being lampposts. expect!
Lows Lane looks like a have been largely ignorant of the thinner and their organisms less On the 4th of May 2019, lawyers If there was a programme about
BMX track in parts. threat to human health posed by the developed. in Demark concluded that the 5G real-life mass murders and it’s
In addition, the sewers new technology. The Prime Minister of Poland system contravenes: i) The UN Con- something that I might get upset
are inadequate even They were probably unaware of the blocked 5G for the safety of the vention on the Rights of the Child, about if I watched it, I would use
without the extra water sheer scale of dissension and contro- nation. Also Brussels rejected its and ii) The European Convention of a bit of common sense and not
run-off from thousands versy surrounding the rollout of the use, closely followed by the rest of Human Rights. watch it.
of extra houses planned 5G network globally. Belgium. And in the UK, several In June the same year, over 2,000 This country is turning into a
in Ilkeston’s Greenbelt. Worldwide protests are seemingly cities and towns have successfully scientists and 1,400 medical doctors joke. Television companies are
In 2020 untreated sewage deliberately not being covered by resisted the rollout, among them from all over the world submitted so scared of offending / upsetting
entered the Erewash River the mainstream news media. For Bristol, Paignton and Glastonbury. a protest against 5G and called for people these days and are pander-
on 130 occasions for a instance, how many of us were In Manchester, where 5G was imple- it to be terminated, as it presents a ing to them. Common sense and
total of 515 hours from aware that 5G has now been banned mented against the wishes of many, direct danger to human health and logic doesn’t seem to exist these
the Ilkeston area. from several countries, some parts of local residents took to tearing down wellbeing. days.
The Water Companies are the US, and even had a moratorium the masts with their bare hands. They added that it 5G is not stopped, I can remember watching events
making huge profits and imposed by Moscow, out of concern It must be stressed that there has humanity will not need to worry like the Bradford City fire, Hills-
not doing enough to mod- for the health of its citizens? Where been no safety testing for setting ac- about climate change! borough crush, etc, unfold in front
ernise local infrastructure. there will be some improvement in ceptable levels for pulsed radiation, R. Donald of my eyes on the television. They
Ilkeston are being sold signal reception in some areas, it and it will be bombarding every liv- upset me and I do recall them
down the river by local comes at a high cost. ing thing relentlessly 24/7, without from time to time with sadness.
Councils and privatised Unlike the previous technology (of let-up, also impacting on birds, bees More of your letters Nowadays there would be a ‘trig-
utilities and a very dirty 3G, 4G), 5G utilised ultra-short and crops. ger warning’ before the viewers
river it is too. (radio) waves and its transmissions It necessitates much stronger signal on P6 are shown images.
Howard Griffiths are pulsed. Operating at similar transmissions. 10 times, 20 times Thomas Leleux