Save Orleans Riverside from Development

It is clear that the Richmond Council was concerned that this project would be controversial and raise many objections on the grounds of environment and increase in traffic, human and motor, to a delightful and peaceful part of Twickenham. Orleans Road, already overun with traffic should not bear the brunt of a traffic increase because of this piece of vanity. That the plan goes to consulation now after the local election reveals the disingenous methods this Council is prepared to use for this and other future schemes: what else is being planned? While a River Park was spoken of in a press release in September 2013, there was no hint that Lord True and his merry band of duplicitous vandals planned to inflict a faux barge on the quiet, green gardens of Twickenham. Had the plan been made part of the election campaign people would have been provided with a real opportunity to vote for or against. People must ask themselves why the Tory Riverside Candidates kept this plan secret during their campaign and if they are fit people to represent residents. This floating folly built in 2012 boat is better housed, should it prove to be of historic value in the Greenwich Maritime Museum or at Hampton Court Palace - that neither establishments seems to be bidding for the 'honour' speaks for itself.