Labour Waste Time While Scampton Waits

Letter from Home Office

I wrote to the Home Secretary on 10 July seeking clarity on the future of Scampton. I waited all this time for a non-reply from a civil servant.

Labour promised to release the site to West Lindsey but now they only say a decision will be made “in due course”.

Keir Starmer and the Labour candidates for Lincoln and Gainsborough repeatedly made a solemn promise. What trust is there in politics if they don’t keep it?

All this delay is endangering regeneration.

Newspaper reports say the conditions in the Special Development Order that I persuaded Michael Gove to impose make it not worthwhile anyway for the Home Office to proceed.

It that’s so then the Home Secretary needs to release the site now – not waste more time. West Lindsey has also pressed for an answer. £300 million pounds of regeneration is at stake.

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