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Essex County Standard Letters feature: the great Horkesley Park debate.
"Constable Country speaks for itself", read some of the car stickers, and indeed it did. To SAY NO TO HORKESLEY PARK, the by-now-familiar posters, were added other slogans. The Stour Valley Action Group rally brought together people of all ages and types from the length of the valley; many came with banners, handmade signs, and balloons, putting an element of carnival into the protest.
They write, "The National Trust considers that although the visitor numbers have been substantially reduced in this proposal compared to the last one, the application should still be rejected as being completely out of scale and of an inappropriate nature and location. It would also be just as likely to have the potential to irreparably damage the tourist locations within the Dedham Vale which the National Trust and partners have striven so long and hard to cherish."
The front page of the East Anglian Daily Times on Monday 16 March reported Mr Stephen Bunting's assertion that SVAG had distributed "misleading information". SVAG replies that their views are based on the reading and analysis of Buntings' own documentation, and are matters of opinion and judgement.
As Buntings realise their petition, which was generated at their Suffolk Punch roadshows during 2007/8 and based on thier previous planning application, is invalid they are sending previous signatories a flyer and prepaid envelope hoping they will give their support to the new application.
Submission of the new planning application sparked a wave of letters to the Essex County Standard.
Bid
for new heritage park is resurrected - 24 February 2009 (pdf 208Kb)
A new Horkesley Park proposal was launched on Thursday 19 February with a great
fanfare in the press. Editorial comment in Friday's Essex County Standard asked
the crucial question: 'This project, if given permission, will change Great
Horkesley and the surrounding villages forever. The question is, for better or
worse?'
Doubts
Surround Buntings' Claims of Support - 29 June 2007 (pdf )
The story of Buntings' clams of public support sparked a vocal response and
a surge of letters to the papers.
A concerned local resident, and professional art historian, writes to the East Anglian Daily Times with inside knowledge on the subject of the art ' outstation' which Buntings advertise as one of the major cultural elements of Horkesley Park.
Who
Owns Constable's Country? - 18 May 2007 (pdf
298Kb)
Professor Michael Rosenthal of Warwick University delivered a hard hitting
lecture in
aid of the Stour Valley Action Group to a packed Nayland Village Hall.
He said the word 'heritage' in this day had come to mean something that
was fake, dishonest, vacuous, and to do with retail, moneymaking and
'a world that never was'.
Buntingland
to be relaunched in May- 6th April 2007 (pdf
197Kb)
Buntings announce that they will be holding an extensive series of
promotional events to publicise their venture once again with 'show
rounds' at the site and 'roadshows' at other locations around the
county.
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