tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post6715068880516228855..comments2024-01-09T13:27:08.545+00:00Comments on swanageview: SAVE HERSTON FIELDSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-17585329831911606252010-09-28T23:31:38.421+01:002010-09-28T23:31:38.421+01:00Profit is not the right word. A better word would ...Profit is not the right word. A better word would be enrichment. The value of land would jump from a couple of hundred thousand to several million if the planning officer signs the proposal.<br /><br />So how is the actual land/soil enriched, solely on it being worth thousands of pounds more. I would suggest the more the land is worth the less it is enriched. For example if land is valued at Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-2978019842101022542010-09-18T09:19:10.041+01:002010-09-18T09:19:10.041+01:00If I could be enriched by several million, I would...If I could be enriched by several million, I would spend a lot of time and money telling you all how great your lives will be with a new health centre...<br /><br />Bit of an arogant statement. I dont need some idiot to have millions and tell me I need a new health centre... I know that now. And Im poor!<br /><br />It is going to amaze me that if/when we get a new health centre _ and where ever- Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-54254808276959561272010-09-17T20:44:09.070+01:002010-09-17T20:44:09.070+01:00Profit is not the right word. A better word would...Profit is not the right word. A better word would be enrichment. The value of land would jump from a couple of hundred thousand to several million if the planning officer signs the proposal.<br /><br />If I could be enriched by several million, I would spend a lot of time and money telling you all how great your lives will be with a new health centre...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-73962349224712422872010-09-14T11:10:31.746+01:002010-09-14T11:10:31.746+01:009.29. Totally agree but profit is also an incentiv...9.29. Totally agree but profit is also an incentive to make things (anything) happen. Maybe you really dont mind a bit of profit but its the exploitation that is wrong. Then we agree. Herston Fields for ever - where would all those dogs go?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-42059597895818430442010-09-14T09:19:07.690+01:002010-09-14T09:19:07.690+01:00There are plans to build a new hospital on Herston...There are plans to build a new hospital on Herston fields beside the new Health Centre and Pharmacy. So presumably that means that the existing hospital would close and probably sit for many years in splendid dereliction like Everest. James Day had already closed when it was proposed that new elderly care facilities would be provided - guess where? Then there was so much space left that the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-77125556732519616182010-09-13T23:20:53.854+01:002010-09-13T23:20:53.854+01:00'The health centre cannot go up another storey...'The health centre cannot go up another storey as the existing footings are apparently inadequate. I have also heard that the land on which it stands was originally swamp.'<br /><br />If not up, then ?? sideways. DCC seem to be able to use a crystal ball to see into the future, its shame that the doctors did not use this same technique for the Health Centre. I wonder if the reason for theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-35280525813997030582010-09-12T21:29:27.918+01:002010-09-12T21:29:27.918+01:00Its very tiresome that every time the word profit ...Its very tiresome that every time the word profit appears on Swanageview someone feels compelled to ask what is wrong with profit. If I had said "not enough in it for the doctors" this reaction would not have been triggered. Actually when it comes to designing health provision there is a lot wrong with profit becoming a significant determinant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-31785105586246187812010-09-09T10:41:55.174+01:002010-09-09T10:41:55.174+01:00.....and profit is exactly what Scott Estate and S........and profit is exactly what Scott Estate and Savills want to make if they get planning permission to develop Herston Fields. Nothing wrong with that either is there? Greenfield site, one landowner. Has anyone got a calculator?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-56002398678044422562010-09-09T10:04:50.868+01:002010-09-09T10:04:50.868+01:00and whats wrong with a bit of profit?and whats wrong with a bit of profit?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-26781618263121291012010-09-08T18:12:18.505+01:002010-09-08T18:12:18.505+01:00Not as profitable for the doctors.Not as profitable for the doctors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-26980675905653115842010-09-08T12:20:56.704+01:002010-09-08T12:20:56.704+01:00Perhaps one of the town's pharmacies would rel...Perhaps one of the town's pharmacies would relocate to operate the health centre's site. One remain in the centre; one at the health centre. What's is wrong with that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-57396621325452819582010-09-08T12:08:12.052+01:002010-09-08T12:08:12.052+01:00Were I of a suspicious mind I would suggest that t...Were I of a suspicious mind I would suggest that the attraction of a town edge site for the doctors was the possibility it raises of an in house pharmacy, like the one in the health centre in Wool. These are a nice earner for the doctors, adding very little to the capital cost of the undertaking but benefiting from a captive audience. Anyone living west of the town centre is hardly going to go Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-88742291073782828462010-09-08T08:43:28.228+01:002010-09-08T08:43:28.228+01:00Personally the health centre which we have now sho...Personally the health centre which we have now should be open 7 days a week like the rest of the world. We are not all ill from Monday to Friday.<br />Ahh dear deluded dave Im affraid the last, govt: if you can call them that did away with doctors doing weekends and evenings, hence no cover and the ill fated NHS direct. Such an easy answer but easily dimissed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-64873551041099225322010-09-07T22:47:03.224+01:002010-09-07T22:47:03.224+01:00Personally the health centre which we have now sho...Personally the health centre which we have now should be open 7 days a week like the rest of the world. We are not all ill from Monday to Friday. Chemist's have too. Then we take the work load of hospitals , like someone has said already , welcome to the 21st century.<br /><br />Oh and Nico ..........thank you ;) and keep up the excelent work at the Gazette;).David Furmagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-40566767816937182022010-09-07T19:33:58.702+01:002010-09-07T19:33:58.702+01:00Were I of a suspicious mind I would suggest that t...Were I of a suspicious mind I would suggest that the attraction of a town edge site for the doctors was the possibility it raises of an in house pharmacy, like the one in the health centre in Wool. These are a nice earner for the doctors, adding very little to the capital cost of the undertaking but benefiting from a captive audience. Anyone living west of the town centre is hardly going to go Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-35769917852495378492010-09-07T15:37:13.462+01:002010-09-07T15:37:13.462+01:00As the GP's haven't told the locals what t...As the GP's haven't told the locals what they are up to how on earth can anything be "decided by the locals who use those facilities"?<br /><br />Am i the only one who has known that the GP's wanted to move/ as to wht they want well I suppose in perfect live they would want a super surgery 15 doctors dozens of nurses operating rooms pharmacy etc etc, but in todays climate I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-15284898518361872092010-09-07T15:35:23.953+01:002010-09-07T15:35:23.953+01:00I would rather have my primary care facilities pla...I would rather have my primary care facilities planned by people whose job it is than the armchair generals and assorted knowalls who claim to know what is and is not needed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-51942131369478485542010-09-07T15:12:48.341+01:002010-09-07T15:12:48.341+01:00As the GP's haven't told the locals what t...As the GP's haven't told the locals what they are up to how on earth can anything be "decided by the locals who use those facilities"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-19786479001599466732010-09-07T14:42:09.948+01:002010-09-07T14:42:09.948+01:00Its common sense. You experience what is on offer ...Its common sense. You experience what is on offer today, contrast it to better offers elsewhere and you have the answer. Easy !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-61994000337161925552010-09-07T14:39:14.368+01:002010-09-07T14:39:14.368+01:00What are the grounds for maintaining that you need...What are the grounds for maintaining that you need to live in a place to calculate what premises are needed for primary health care? It is the most extraordinary assertion. It is so obviously absurd that it is impossible to give any credence to anything else said by anyone who makes this claim. Do the other bloggers who are making statements about what is or is not needed have any knowledge or Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-83750322785643672212010-09-07T12:30:34.392+01:002010-09-07T12:30:34.392+01:00What are the grounds for maintaining that you need...What are the grounds for maintaining that you need to live in a place to calculate what premises are needed for primary health care? It is the most extraordinary assertion. It is so obviously absurd that it is impossible to give any credence to anything else said by anyone who makes this claim. Do the other bloggers who are making statements about what is or is not needed have any knowledge or Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-81826139384837280792010-09-07T07:54:28.090+01:002010-09-07T07:54:28.090+01:00You mean the middle school, which is closing? No p...You mean the middle school, which is closing? No proximity there. You mean the road that will be completely urbanised, and lose Herston what little of its identitity it has left? Yes Costcutter will do well! - in fact they could open a pharmacy there! Take jobs out of town, great idea. And the medical practice, on a flood plain - see how healthy that is when the sewers overflow... <br />So Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-39035576067105733372010-09-07T00:11:37.222+01:002010-09-07T00:11:37.222+01:00You mean the middle school, which is closing? No ...You mean the middle school, which is closing? No proximity there. You mean the road that will be completely urbanised, and lose Herston what little of its identitity it has left? Yes Costcutter will do well! - in fact they could open a pharmacy there! Take jobs out of town, great idea. And the medical practice, on a flood plain - see how healthy that is when the sewers overflow... <br /><brAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-46927944716726651732010-09-06T23:33:52.447+01:002010-09-06T23:33:52.447+01:00Building the houses and health centre at herston m...Building the houses and health centre at herston makes a lot of sense. Good road access, proximity to local store, space could be found for chemist, proximity to schools. This is already an urban area and the buildings would amount to no more than infilling between existing developmemnt and the school. Whilst no one likes to see any fields disappear, these are the obvious ones to sacrifice if Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8676281.post-68947479429659278742010-09-06T18:43:44.870+01:002010-09-06T18:43:44.870+01:00If the GP's NEED a new medical centre for the ...If the GP's NEED a new medical centre for the 21st century, why don't they start using their current medical centre as a 21st century one - by extending their opening hours to spread the workload, and possibly freeing up space that they so badly need?<br /><br />I am also told by a couple of architects that the current health centre could be re-designed and improved on the current site, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com