Dear Editor,
I used to like Dido, she made some really nice tracks back in the early 2000s – she was even once brilliantly sampled by Eminem.
But now there’s another Dido, an incredibly self-important one, a Guernsey registered (why?) company, that wants to destroy Little Marlow and the surrounding area with their oh so grand project. Interestingly, Companies House doesn’t list its directors – maybe they’re too shy?
It’s coming (if Angela says yes) to a town or village near you. Not so much a Blockbuster as a Blockmaker – particularly if you’re driving on the A404 or the road between Bourne End and Marlow.
According to their spokesperson, Sarah Hyperbole, it will be “of national importance” and it will be known as “Marlow Film Studios”. Whenever loads of money is at stake there’s always “a spokesperson” isn’t there?
Apparently, “Marlow Film Studios” will deliver “thousands of jobs”. Seriously? And does our area really need a development that will deliver “thousands of jobs”? Already Marlow, the A404 and the surrounding areas are very often choked with traffic. Marlow has its own thriving business park.
If that planning expert, Angela Rayner, really wants to generate jobs and solve the so-called housing crisis, she should concentrate on encouraging development in the north of Britain. The “housing crisis” is in fact largely a result of uncontrolled immigration, mainly into South East England. That is immigration not only from abroad, but from the north of England, where young people are forced to move to the south east to find good quality employment.
Dido, or in other words a small bunch of extremely rich blokes in Oxfordshire, should really wind their necks in. Their self-importance beggars belief. “The high technology studio campus we would deliver will meet the needs of global investors…preparing the UK for the next half-century of British film-making”. Although it’s certainly true that it would meet the needs of some greedy global investors.
Let’s hope The Deputy Prime Minister doesn’t get carried away with all Labour’s hype about digging up the green belt and sees sense.
Malcolm James Stretten,