General Discussion
But the visitor centre will still have the effect of encouraging people to visit the Warren. Not that I am particularly bothered about that it's just that itstrikes me as being contradictory given what the SANGS is supposed to achieve. Actually I'm all for lots more educational visits to the whole Warren area - geography field trips, marine biology, oceanography, botony etc etc. I've ...
This business of the SANGS being needed to draw people away from the Warren. Haven't I read somewhere lately that TDC plan on spending money on a new visitors centre at the Warren in order to er.........increase the number of visitors?
and on the issue of part-time workers and pension schemes I've just remembered this. That many occupational pension schemes back in the 1970s did not allow part-time workers to be members and which of the two genders mostly worked (still work) part-time? I don't think this discrimination got altered until sometime in the mid 1980s (via European Court I think). Certainly when my mum ...
and TDC should never have designated Warren Farm and adjacent land as the site for a SANGS in the first place as the land is sited right next door to a water treatment works which regularly pongs. "SANGS must be free from unpleasant intrusions (eg sewage treatment work smells etc)"
and on the matter of equality in the workplace and related matters please do not think that because things have improved that therefore: 1) women have achieved equality (we haven't), and that 2) that women's lives back in the 1970s were as they can be now. Compared to women of other generations: the policy was implemented against a background of inequality for this decade of ...
And from what I can gather the age 68 figure is presently due to start on 6/4/2046 (yes, 2046!). . So...... if you're that young you've plenty of time to prepare for a State Pension Age of 68. Just be prepared for the goal posts (your State Pension Age) to get shifted anytime between now and then. Click on this link and then scroll right to the bottom for table 5. ...
Remember this DJ - if you are due to retire at 68 that figure could be altered in an upwardly projection yet. And at very short notice. That is what happened to 1953 and 1954 born women courtesy of the 2011 Pension Act.
Right.......so......if it ain't gonna be Warren Farm (and other immediate adjacent land in other ownerships) then how do they (TDC) 'undo' the bit of the Local Plan that identifies Warren Farm as being the site for the SANGS. In planning speak, how does DA7 stop being DA7?
Note that a woman born on 6th April 1953 reached her state pension age when she was 63 years and 3 months old. Whereas the woman born but only 12 months later on 6th April 1954, does not reach her state pension age until she is 65 and 7 months old.
There is also an article in the Gazette (see bottom page 6) about the the above. The article omits to mention that as well as the 1995 Pensions Act the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government also passed a Pensions Act in 2011 that speeded up this process even more. I remember writing letters to the press about it at the time and also contacting every woman I knew who would be caught up ...
