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viable, ‘normal’ committee rejected the Farm. The amount of Second homes communities. proposal. interest was not surprising Having a second home is a I’m obviously biased but given the NT only wanted £1 control needed privilege and privilege Pool brings benefits have to wonder does anybody in rent. However, the bargain IT’S good to hear that Mr comes with a cost – ever listen to residents? I’m price was for a good reason; Froggatt (Letters, December potentially higher Council old enough to remember the the land associated with this 28, ‘Don’t increase Council Tax. original application for the farm is very special and Tax’) is prepared to pay 100 I suggest that he starts to substation, which was requires a type of farming per cent of owed Council Tax think long and hard about passed with a promise that that requires a lot of skilled as his contribution to the impact of uncontrolled the site would never be labour for a relatively small sustaining local second home ownership on expanded. Since then it has amount of agricultural communities in south the viability of local been expanded twice and the output. . communities, individuals pylons have been made 33 In the Lake District, we It must be hard to pay two and families, and what he per cent bigger. first-time farmers are lots of Council Tax can do to prevent further Where are we going on this championing ‘Farming with (presumably for his first damage. one? l predict it will go to Nature’. Bekka and I are home in Surrey and second appeal, which will either be building a credible farming home in Cumbria) while Mark Jackson accepted or rejected with business from scratch, many promises, probably to without a farmstead, and we only using South Lakeland High Newton Sandgate Hydrotherapy Pool at District Council services humour everyone. are gaining a lot of support, ‘infrequently’. I’m curious to I WHOLEHEARTEDLY and through attending If it’s rejected it will go particularly from the know how SLDC turns off its agree with Colin the pool reduces social down to London where we National Trust. services to him when he’s A distraction Renshaw, chairman isolation and for many have little political clout and We acknowledge the not here. of South Lakeland the social aspect is there is little concern for importance of protecting Assuming that his house in for drivers? Hydrotherapy Trust, extremely beneficial. country folk and it will be our cultural heritage but we Troutbeck catches fire when WITH regards to the in that the Kendal pool This rehabilitative accepted. also know that we must he’s at home in Surrey I Thirlmere zip wire proposal, needs adequate secure hydrotherapy Does any official ever listen challenge the accepted wonder how he expects the might it be a distraction for funding (Podium, programme provides a to the people they represent? ‘norms’ of our farming fire service to put it out? motorists driving between December 14, ‘Time cost-effective therapy Kendal hospital has virtually industry. (Using this line of logic I Grasmere and Keswick. to end cap in hand and will help patients closed down. The Kendal In 2018, the UK is should be due a rebate for Also, if given permission, approach to pool to improve their health magistrates’ court has closed anticipating a divorce from every time I’m working out will it be more difficult to funding’). and mobility, resulting in down. Building is happening Europe and a new of the county). refuse other ‘tourist As a service user fewer GP appointments on Kendal’s green belt. The agriculture bill for the first I wonder how he thinks attractions’ elsewhere in the myself living with and reduce the burden New Road car park has time in a generation. These professional/caring/ national park? chronic pain the benefits on physiotherapy closed. All this despite changes represent a massive cleaning services will be of the hydrotherapy departments. ferocious opposition! opportunity to begin the Why don’t we just close recovery of our countryside; sustained when there is Nicholas J. Stainforth pool are far reaching. It I believe that we need no-one here to actually carry assists with relaxation to move away from the Kendal down? We might as this New Year’s revolution is them out? Any thoughts on Kendal and decreases pain. insecurity of an annual well - no one in office is being led by those who are how a local school can find It increases muscle ‘cap in hand’ approach listening. certain that change is cleaners at £7.78 per hour for strength and mobility for grants. necessary to secure a future two hours per day when the Nobody is for the service user. J. Robinson for our young farmers. price of property in and Physical exercise also S. Jackson Old Hutton around the school prices out listening to us boosts mental health Kendal David Corrie-Close anyone on a middling to low I HAVE just returned as a Director, The Horned Beef income. (Perhaps they can be Company Ltd bussed in from a large spectator from a planning against the proposal and it’s so obviously narrow? Opportunity conurbation?) meeting regarding the spoke out eloquently. All Then there was the Lindale Or, how locally retained application for a gas- their objections were logical, flooding aspect with all the for recovery firefighters can find property powered station to produce mainly on the grounds of new hard standing. Again OWNING such a vast area of to live in so that they are electric and battery storage access, flood risks and the the residents put forward a our countryside, and with a It will be too locally available to put out facilities at Old Hutton. This infrastructure around the good case showing historical huge membership, the his house fire. confirmed why l never immediate and surrounding flooding incidents and that’s National Trust is often in the far to walk Unless government makes became a councillor. The areas not being able to cope. without the expansion. firing line when there’s meeting could have been Originally Cumbria The planning officer IN SUPPORT of Jack some serious decisions about controversy over a rural Livesey’s letter (December the economic and regulatory finished in half the time County Council had agreed recommended acceptance of issue. But what is less well- because of so much waffle! the access was less than the application. I listened to 21, ‘Do not move these levers available to control known is how they are using spaces’), I am very the quantity of second The residents of Old unsuitable but has since it for a good 45 minutes. their influence to lead the Hutton were obviously changed its mind. Why, when Fortunately the planning concerned over the proposed homes we are doomed as big shake-up that we need to closure of the disabled fix our farms and to engage parking in Market Place at with the Great British public Kendal. 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