Boscombe Twinned With Santa Monica?
July 10th, 2008
If you picked up the Bournemouth Echo today, you may have already read about plans to twin Boscombe with Santa Monica in the USA.
Boscombe Area Forum is writing to civic chiefs in the Californian resort to suggest twinning the two communities. This has received backing from local councillors who claim that Santa Monica’s regeneration has much in common with Boscombe’s regeneration and developments like the Boscombe Spa Village Project.
Area Forum business portfolio holder Peter Castle says:
I have been to Santa Monica and it has become a mini Silicon Valley. Like Boscombe, it is very cosmopolitan and has got a lot of artists. Boscombe has the new surf reef and a lot of opportunities for investment.
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August 4th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Good idea and will lead to ensure a sustainable future for wavemaking for the new reef,
But in NZ we all have to deal with the reality and we have written Maunganui off as a fisherman’s tall tail believed by us all -serve us right we just heard what we wanted to hear. You have the reality of now adjusting to the daunting warning from the purveyors, designers,developers and builders of your reef that “the reef does not make waves”
the size of the waves is not as important as their quality and the enjoyment fun) that the community has in them.
Consistency is the other more dominant factor - so the inability of the innovation to “make waves” has to be seen as the greatest weakness and threat to the continuing “momentum” of commercial growth.
Inconsistency of catching fish leads to total abandonment of a fishing village in that industry and one can only fib so much about how many fish are being caught in trying to encourage visitors.
Regardless of the fish tales accepted about reefs the reality now is to progress with what you have and make sure that it is mitigated to a sustainable outcome. That may or may not involve the present people that you have placed the future of your aspirations in.
That will be your own choice and the news releases of more warnings will be anticipated with dread and seen as precursors of dire consequences. To be honest the reef builders should only be repeating what they said in the promotion of this reef - over and over again
The warning of “the reef does not make waves” is a honest statement that means there will be a disappointment which will lead to a loss of confidence in the strategy. But we were all sold on success, why is disappointment now a part of their “disappointment mitigation”?
its all the more important that the designers,builders and proponents of the reef have to make sure that they deliver the promise , the basis of which was why the enterprise unfolded.
There are only three alternatives , they will, they sort off did and they didn’t.
I am sure it will not be number one as utopia is a part of euphoria.
Euphoria, which has a lot to do with driving these things is rarely connected with a perfect outcome. So the reality of the other two is what has to be accepted now.
The designers have warned already that people should lower their expectations to what can be expected. The reef “does not make waves” nor do they the good weather and visibility circumstances that are needed for a wave that can be ridden to be “as promised”.
In Mt Manganui the photographs from a successful combination of those circumstances on a day or so has been used as the basis for claiming success over a number of years. These childish, transparent attitudes need to be now properly addressed as to guarantee a mortgaged security on success.
The reality is that the backlash should be anticipated -but that may not matter so much as the rebirth of some self confidence and self esteem of the folk in that area may alone have been enough to justify the exercise.
Time will tell if a wave generating machine off the reef will be required in the summer months. The builders have already hinted in that direction by saying the reef “does not make waves. ”
If they as astute and aware as they would have us believe they have in their sights a wave generating machine being developed on a secret lake in Switzerland that will “make waves”.
It could be that another three million pounds will more than justify itself to “make waves” . If the momentum can be sustained by this it will be a mater of straight cost/benefit that they may also have to supply on a cost/wave generated basis.
I hope the governance have got their pencils sharp as to make money one must spend. The amount spent so far seems to been well justified in the benefits the area has already seen. Now the issue of the reef “not making waves ” should be recognized as the biggest weakness and threat in the sustaining and further growth of those benefits.
Some of the civilized amongst us hope that the Opanake and Manganui experience is not suffered by any one else as we would not even wish that upon our worst enemies. (even pommies but you are welcome to reinact public humiliation laws on “fibbers” and tall wave story purveyors) which at least will recognize theme as another form of vwery qualified public entertainers. Yes and very qualified and experienced at their craft)
break the piggy banks . best of kiwi luck and erpty burp
THAT ALL FOLKS!!!