Save Orleans Riverside from Development

I have lived near this part of Richmond for the last 47 years, and
brought up my daughter here. I regularly took her, and now take
my granddaughters, to the lovely Playground in the area where the
proposed development would take place. At present this area is a
tranquil beautiful place, for recreation and relaxation. It would be
criminal to deprive the local people, and visitors of this precious place,
by allowing a development that must surely be simply a Tourist
Attraction, to make money, thereby ruining the area. It is an area free to visit, but of course we do maintain it with our taxes and rates. It is our money that Richmond Council would be using to create this development,
and local people who use the Park, and visitors too,should have been
properly consulted before they tried to go ahead with it. The Gloriana can be moored somewhere else on the River. The Council should apply
to Private Sponsors for funds, to people who have money and a piece of
riverbank ( there are a few of those around ) and they can have the barge there if they want.