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David @chapellllhouse.demon.co.uk wrote in message
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When was this report? you seem to have been the only one that saw
it

When they announce no more car to be built at Luton.

I think it's a bit of wishful thinking on your part John

Maxie, I want cars to be made in Luton.

Still can't find the quote then?

Well you will have to take that is what was said. All that is said on TV
is
not on the Internet.

But there is a lot of quotations from Vauxhall and others on the net
relating to the closure and yet not one of them refers to
planning/expansion/green belt issues. You would have thought that if it
was an issue it would have such a hot potato that it would have been
referred to somewhere.

Their spokesman was clear in that the greenbelt was a major issue is moving
car production elsewhere.

If you know that part of Luton at all you would know that there is
plenty of land that has been and is being/available to be developed, a
hugely important local employer would not have been held back on lack of
development land, the council were desperate to keep them going. I
worked at the Vauxhall plant on a number of occasions and believe me
space wasn't a problem.
It was a commercial decision on the part of GM.

I can only state what the man said on TV. The planning and greenbelt issues
were a big problem to them. He even mentioned it was a problem in most
towns and cities in the UK, hence them moving out of the UK to expand car
production.


Where exactly is this green belt land that the main Vauxhall works could
use for expansion? It all looks pretty built-up around there to me.

The only green bits near there apart from the Vauxhall Sports Club
grounds are the airport and Luton Hoo.
--
Peter

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