Action Plan Gobbledygook!

Those of you familiar with my Youtube video Dumbarton Ghost Town will have noticed my reference in the first frame to the EDAW Action Plan which was adopted by West Dunbartonshire Clowncil in 2000. The thumbnail here (double click to view) is my favourite part of the plan which is the “interpretation guide”. Never has irony been highlighted so well in two words. Quite honestly, read it and tell me that it’s not a pile of shite. Consultants are being paid fortunes to produce rubbish like this. You can just see some man in a suit at a lectern reading this bollocks out loud and doing that inverted commas gesture at the appropriate points.

I notice that they have no interpretation explanation for “dead hole” which is what their plan created in Dumbarton. The success of this plan and its predecessor a masterplan can be gauged by the fact that WDC are currently trying to push through another bloody Masterplan less than 10 years later. Another firm of consultants, another waste of money.