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Arsenal boss must learn to accept planners’ decisions
• WILL area planning committee, we yet again have Ken Friar complaining about a couple of decisions which, in Arsenal’s opinion, will compromise the “viability of the project” (Arsenal cries foul over sports centre ruling, June 19). What complete tosh!
Members and officers of Islington Council must be absolutely fed up with the number of times they have heard this threat made by Arsenal. The economic reality of the decisions about the opening hours of the sports centre and open access to green spaces will have a trivial impact on the overall profitability of the scheme. Yet Arsenal wants to complain about the supposed lack of consultation. Arsenal’s objective is clear – maximise the profits for the handful of individuals who own Arsenal plc and forget about such issues as community amenity. All those clichés about “Arsenal wants to be a good neighbour” have a very hollow ring.
It is worth noting that the papers for the committee (more than 100 pages of them) were available to everybody on the council website for at least a week before the meeting. Perhaps Arsenal was so confident, thinking that yet again it could get its way, that it did not bother to consult the documentation?
For the benefit of residents, Arsenal should have the good grace to accept decisions made by the committee. It would have been obvious to Mr Friar, had he attended the meeting, that the decisions were arrived at only after a long and considered debate of the issues.
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