SO, Marketing Cheshire supports the BeWILDerwood application because Knutsford has to compete with the seaside.

This comment does not surprise me, because Cheshire East tourism used to claim that Edale and Eyam were in Cheshire East when marketing the area as ‘The Cheshire Peak District’.

Tatton Park is the only cultural asset that CEC has a stake in.

No university, no major art gallery, no theatre, no orchestra etc, only a fantastic historical and environmental asset we should treasure.

Do we really want this internationally important park and garden to become an attraction that competes with Blackpool?

Do we want to set a precedent that will open the floodgates for the possibility of all National Trust properties in the country to become theme parks?

Some of the most famous historical landscape gardeners worked on Tatton, including Humphrey Repton who, ironically enough designed the applicant Mr Blofeld’s own garden at Hoveton House, where his family have lived for 300 years.

Mr Blofeld did not build his Norfolk attraction in his own garden but in part of his estate, which was not funded by The Norfolk Broads.

Therefore can I ask why, if his business is so successful, are we in these constrained economic times, when CEC has had to cut back on care for the vulnerable, helping to fund this business proposition?

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