IF nothing else, the chairman of the trustees of St Nicholas Hospital is remarkably candid in justifying the board’s decision to sell off irreplaceable meadow land in Britford Lane to the highest bidder around.
“We are not the National Trust.
We don’t own this land for the benefit of society.”
Quite so! Preserving a piece of the historic fabric of the Salisbury and what remains of its unique environment is no concern of theirs.
The quality of life of the city’s present population and generations to come is irrelevant.
All that matters is that a small, enclosed, privileged Anglican community should maximise the paper value of its investment portfolio.
In view of previous disastrous planning decisions, it is difficult to be optimistic.
The vested interests at play here will probably ensure that the score is Mammon 10: God 0 at the end of the day, if I may borrow a phrase from St.Matthew.
Hopefully other readers are less pessimistic than...
DAVID BLAKE Salisbury
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