Lee54

What a load of crap, and the whole of Tynwal backed the idea. Whois going to pay the costs of the boat fare to the Island, where will all these 100000s of visitrs going to stay and thats what it will need to turn a profit. Just goes to show that these people we voted in live in fantasy land

Maybe their Skint., Ive heard their already into the banks for £40 million, could be wrong. Could end up like The Government and AskethHall and the Bus Station Hotel, both Skint. We should now have plenty of Land to graze the White Elephants

oldmanxfella Yes. That and the fact that this was yet another Sefton Group fantasy project from start to finish. And meet the team

Rumour has it that the Sefton Group have or may be pulling out of the Summerland site due to contamination of the ground and the Government's refusal to sort the unstable rock face out.

Closed the Castle Mona down, the Golf Links down and may be closing down the Hilton

And what about Dan the Man Dandara, his house overlooks the site, will he object against any planning

I dunno, I've been to a few 'Hotels' that also charge by the hour! So you like Brothels then

Just the sort of nonsense you'd expect from a town councillor who cannot see through this little charade. It is never ever going to happen - you'd have to be stark staring bonkers to even consider this £30m project which cannot possibly make money or provide a return on investment at any point in the next 20 years. Its a typical Sefton Group development - get plot, stick sign up saying whats going to go there, get planning, sell plot or sell project on. No brick will ever get laid on this site so stop fooling yourselves. Just the sort of response you expect from a cynical forum poster, who is an expert on all subjects. and yours is the sort of mindless cretionus optimism that thinks any company is actually going to spend £30m in the biggest recession in living memory to build a facility that cannot possibly ever make money. Maybe you should go down to Lord Street and look at the other plot that the Sefton Group has that until recently had a sign on it saying "Planning application in for - a cinema, casino, hoverport, starship docking terminal, flavour of the month DTL grant funded amazing widget and thingy factory etc, etc, etc" Its a carpark with outline planning and a big sign on it; and as usual this is a load of old bollocks and at least some of us can see it. AND CAR PARKS MAKE MORE PROFIT THAN ANY HOTELS

How is that a gun to their heads? Other bidders were interested? Yes other parties were asked to submit proposals for the site, but no figues on the lease had been discussed wth any party. Now that he Government have decided they like the project submitted and have spent a lot of money getting to this point gives the company with another site that could be used the upper hand when the price of the lease is given. Dont forget the Sefton Group already own a very large site in town that could be used. So ifthey wanted they could say give us Summerland free or on the cheap or we will develope our own land leavin the Government with another white elephant

I wonder if a Gun is being held to Governments heads, heard that they want the land for free or may divert the project to their own Walpole Av site.

I always thought that was an election poster that had been left in the window of STB

Spotted who I think was DigDave in the Chart room chippie at the weekend with his lady. The big fellow bought all the sausages so we all had to wait, Even wore the tee shirt with BigDave on the back

This fellow made £millions from his stunts against the police one clip of many http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1CkPcICaY...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0gvhpoTQ_A...feature=related