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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
BCP Council 'actively exploring all available funding' for play park
BCP Council says it is actively exploring all available funding opportunities to ensure the future of a play park after residents expressed their concerns. Residents of Southbourne are calling on BCP Council to protect their much-loved Riverlands play park, known as 'Wick'. Campaigners are protesting against council plans to relocate it to Tuckton Tea Gardens. BCP Council says ongoing public consultation on the play park strategy is intended to gain a clear understanding of local issues and community. Read more at: 'This is wrong and some of us will fight to stop this proposal' Kate Langdown, director of environment said: 'We understand that the Riverlands site is a much-valued play space, and the reason we are running a public consultation on this is precisely to gain a clear understanding of local issues and community preferences. All feedback is valuable and will be carefully reviewed and analysed once the consultation period ends. 'We remain committed to enhancing the play space within Wick Field – whether at its current site or a new location. It would be premature to draw conclusions before the consultation closes on 24 August. 'What we are doing – with the funding for Phase 2 of our play strategy not yet secured - is actively exploring all available funding opportunities which will ensure its future, including commercial contributions. This is not about handing over the playpark.' 'In the meantime, our consultation remains open, and we strongly encourage as many people as possible to let us know what they think – on this play space and others across the BCP area.'
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Snooty town bans McDonald's from opening because locals want a better class of restaurant
An upscale Colorado town has managed to stop McDonald's from building a restaurant in their town - seemingly because locals considered it too tacky. Locals in Castle Pines, in Douglas County, erupted in fury after plans by the fast food chain to open up a 3,671-square-foot two-lane drive thru emerged last year. Tensions came to ahead in May 2024 when the council held a public meeting asking residents if they should allow the Golden Arches to open a franchise. According to Business Den, that discussion descended into chaos with locals heard chanting 'No clown in our town!'. The outlet reported that over one hundred people attended the meeting, and the decision to reject the McDonald's was upheld with a 5-2 vote. Shortly after, the council was sued by developer CP Commercial, run by Ventana Capital, that owns the land where the McDonald's would have stood. The firm said the council had used 'nebulous bases' in denying the build, including traffic and a lack of outdoor seating, to disguise the fact they just hated McDonald's. Over a year later, Judge Stacy Guillon sided with the city and upheld their original decision. In her findings, Judge Guillon said: 'Because the council had competent evidence to support denying the site improvement plan, the court affirms the council's decision. 'The law makes clear that this court is not to second guess whether the city council acted wisely or in its constituents' best interest. 'The court may reverse only if the city council had no competent evidence whatsoever to support the decision it made.' She also rejected the argument by CP Commercial that because city code allowed for fast food, the council didn't have any basis to deny the plans. By this thinking, she said that 'raucous nightclubs' might be allowed where 'mellow cocktail lounges' are. CP Commercial said they were 'disappointed' in the decision, saying the council had caved to 'a minority of voices and their desire for a different brand of restaurant'. According to the developer they are now weighing up a possible appeal against the ruling. A statement continued: 'The city council should not be permitted to hide behind, as the court aptly noted, factors that are inherently subjective. 'The city's residents deserve not only the significant tax benefits that a McDonald's would bring but also additional restaurant choices.' Douglas Gilbert, president of the Castle Pines North Homeowners Association No. 1, welcomed the move. Gilbert had been a vocal opponent of the move to bring McDonald's to the area, telling the outlet it was too close to two schools and feared it would lead to trash. He said: 'We feel vindicated in the sense that our city government has protected the property rights of quite a few homeowners who would have had to deal with the traffic, and protected the school children who also would have been impacted.' City Manager Michael Penny added in a statement: 'The city is pleased that the District Court applied the appropriate deference to the City Council's judgment on this proposal. 'The city remains hopeful that future development along the Castle Pines Parkway corridor will develop in a way that best meets the needs of the community.
CBC
30-07-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Manor Park residents say ‘no' to city's new sidewalk plans
Some neighbours in Ottawa's Manor Park community are in concrete disagreement with the city's new plan for road upgrades. They've put up signs on their lawns, hoping Ottawa will backtrack on one key aspect of the project: sidewalks.
Daily Mail
28-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
A plan to build a McDonald's in this beachside town received 1,500 objections... locals are fuming over the final decision
The residents of a small beachside suburb are devastated after losing a six-year fight against a McDonald's being built in their community. A BP service station in the community of Safety Beach, located on the Mornington Peninsula's southeast coast, is set to undergo an upgrade. The new pit stop will include a 24-hour convenience store and drive-through fast food restaurant. Despite being twice rejected by Mornington Peninsula Shire Council and receiving 1,500 objections from the community, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal approved the construction this month. Applications for the building began in 2019. While the tenant for the available drive-through restaurant hasn't been confirmed, it is believed the site will become a McDonald's. The news has been met with fury by locals who believe the location of the soon-to-be McDonald's will cause significant traffic and litter problems. Safety Beach BP sits just 100m across from its famous beach, which is visited by thousands of tourists every year. Mayor Anthony Marsh said BP's upgrade, pushed by site owner AA Holdings, was a 'step too far'. 'It's a bit quiet now in mid-July, but if you were to come back in five months you'd find cars banked up for hundreds of metres on some days,' Marsh told Nine News. 'We're 100m from the beach so litter is a massive problem, particularly in a place like the Peninsula where we love our beach and our nature.' He added the introduction of a fast food chain would steal money from the pockets of small business owners. 'We've got a lot of traders that rely on that summer trade to survive the whole 12 months,' Marsh said. AA Holdings owns more than 50 BP outlets across Melbourne and generated $864million in revenue in 2024. Andrew Robertson, a member of the Safety Beach Foreshore Landscape Committee, believed AA Holdings' money is what saw the application finally approved. 'They're just determined to push it through, and they've obviously spent a load of money on getting through to appeal,' he told The Age. The disgruntled resident added the 'simple seaside community' didn't need a fast food chain. 'It's an established residential area that doesn't need this facility,' Mr Robertson said. 'In our view, it's not going to service us. There's plenty of things available to the residents in the [nearby] Dromana township.' VCAT senior member Geoffrey Code and member Kate Partenio found AA Holdings had sufficiently addressed concerns about traffic and parking. It also implemented a condition requiring AA Holdings to conduct daily litter patrols.
CTV News
18-07-2025
- General
- CTV News
Lucasville, N.S., residents concerned over proposed 118-unit apartment building
Plans for an apartment complex in Lucasville, N.S., are not sitting well with a number of residents in the area. Plans for an apartment complex in Lucasville, N.S., are not sitting well with a number of residents in the area. Plans for an apartment complex in Lucasville, N.S., are not sitting well with a number of residents in the area. Dozens of people attended what was billed as an emergency public meeting on the issue at the Wallace Lucas Community Centre Thursday night. The proposed 118-unit building in the 500 block of Lucasville Road is the latest in a series of developments residents say have been quietly approved by the Halifax Regional Municipality. They say the end result is reshaping the historic African Nova Scotian community without residents' consent. 'We've got traffic ... between 5,000 and 10,000 cars go through this road already, so it's going to add to that. We have a community centre here that cannot house the amount of people that we already have within our boundary,' said Devon Parsons with the Lucasville Vision Committee. 'We have no transit, we have no sidewalk, so there's many things that need to be fixed before anyone should even think about wanting to put a 118-unit apartment building on Lucasville.' Residents are asking the city to pause all Lucasville developments until residents have completed their own planning process and cancel permit extensions granted without factoring in the area's historic and cultural designation. A petition is also being circulated with more than 700 signatures. With files from CTV Atlantic's Bruce Frisko. For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
