Will plans go with the flow?
Or will they fall by the waterside?
- deserve to know the facts?
Council leader Bill McIntosh uses phrases like “first significant milestone”, “positive steps” and “helping to kick- start regeneration”. He’s quite correct. South Ayrshire Council is making a whole new quarter of the old town available for redevelopment. But what is built there – if anything – has yet to be decided.
The Ayr Renaissance website says their masterplan “provides design principles and indicative layouts”.
In layman’s terms, it’s a suggestion of what redevelopment could or should look like. But what is built there – again – has yet to be decided.
SAC and Ayr Renaissance have done Ayr a great favour by finally removing a blight on our High Street.
But they do themselves no favours in posturing with a picture of a cosmopolitan multi- million pound riverside development that – in all probability – will never see the light of day.
It’s disappointing that our elected members couldn’t take the time to explain the real situation at River Square.
So perhaps Ayr Renaissance might take up the challenge instead?
I cordially invite their managing director, David Bell, to comment, challenge, correct, complement or contradict any of the topics I’ve raised.
Take all the space you need, David.
You wouldn’t just be enlightening me – but the thousands of Post readers who help pay your £ 76,997 annual salary.