Are the Liberal Democrats about to break a promise?

The cinema project seems to be ploughing ahead ripping up many planning restrictions to get to a cinema in the wrong place. But what of the Town Council? They own land at Shady Walk Open Space. They have been pushing for the cinema project and this relies on covering with tarmac a large piece of Shady Walk Open Space.

In version 3 of the Forward Plan, published in March 2010, one of the performance indicators says:
"Maintain and PROTECT green space provisions for recreation and pleasant landscaping."
The Liberal Democrat run Town Council has a bit of a problem. They want a cinema but to achieve this they have to give up land it is a Key Objective to PROTECT.

I feel this is most apt.

If you want to sing along

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique

And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees

Put 'em in a tree museum

And they charged the people

A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer

Put away the D.D.T. now

Give me spots on my apples

But leave me the birds and the bees

Please!

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Late last night

I heard my screen door slam

And a big yellow taxi

Took away my old man

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

I said don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got

Till it's gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

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