The King Is Dead. Long Live The King

The King Is Dead. Long Live The King

• The published comments that a jointly funded road building scheme between Thanet District Council and an allegedly democratic Kent County Council is planned, only raise disturbing questions about what happens next as if councils fund such hopelessly 'planned' projects. Planning has clearly only focused on the profit to be made at the expense of the people paying for it. And paying for it is not simply in the financial sense. Confused planning that has no consistency in logic (no logic at all really) is very apparent. The funding comes from the people of Thanet and in the first phase presumably more central, but undefined, sources. The remedial action to relieve the disastrous traffic issues around this critical central point (Westwood Cross) to get across the island, or to find an exit from Thanet, have only recently been announced. Conveniently, the road improvements have been promised to be got underway now that the imminent construction (and eventual selling) of these homes is here.

• However, the Devil is probably in the unknown detail that has been conveniently ignored. The joint scheme for payment is only for the first phase. One unknown fact is how many phases there will be.

Only the first phase is a joint scheme

More bizarre logic regarding Thanet: the assumption that anyone would want to retire into a depressed area. The money-making schemes (non-existent Turner Centre so far at a cost of well over £48m [abandoned] without even a single brick to show for it and the illusory design seems to change regularly) continue relentlessly. The 'wasted' money went... somewhere. And continues to go... somewhere. There's a drainage conduit to... somewhere. But do not let on to those who pay for it know where 'somewhere' is.

It is difficult to breathe life into a dying entity and building (potentially lucrative) retirement homes can only make money if they are sold. They are yet to be built. The Westwood Cross area house building scheme on paper could suggest a highly profitable scenario, but only if someone had a good enough reason to move into the area. The commencement of the proposed road building 'improvements' has recently been announced, but only to make access to these homes more realistic. The congestion around Westwood Cross is not caused by the shopping centre (the illusion of a successful venture), but Thanet residents moving around the area or attempting to get to a place of work either in or outside Thanet. It's all ill-thought or the plan has been to allow the congestion increase to then smooth out any opposition to these (very costly) road improvements. The improvements that are expected to help sell (so far unbuilt) houses, but paid for by local residents. Since employment possibilities are in decline this seems very unlikely. But when blind it is not possible to see. And if imagination is also absent, then there is really no hope.

The illusion of construction is designed to pull the veil over the ongoing destruction