But the i360 isn't for the overall public / country benefit and the money is being loaned to a company already in financial trouble.
Using your argument the AMEX should have been built using public funds but I wouldn't have supported that ( even if it did happen in Hull ).
Rachel Clark was as useless as they come. The West Pier Trust was ( and I use the past tense as they barely exist anymore ) an old boys club made up of titled knobs and incompetent administrators. It pains me to say it but the old pier would have had a better chance if they sold it to Eubanks !
And those people in London won't actually have to pay for it if ( or more likely when ) the developer goes bust. As a B&H resident all my life I have no issue at all with the i360 in principle - any attempt to attract extra tourists has got to be a good thing. What erks me, no pisses me off in...
There's a public footpath that goes through the grounds of Stanmer House which Mike Holland's company wanted closed - http://www.stanmer.org.uk/footpath.php
This will be the same Mike Holland who broke planning permission at the Engineerium and wants to close a public footpath at Stanmer ? The guy is a **** !!!!!