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And so there you are, tap, tap, tapping away at the keyboard until three in the morning all about the imminent meeting of the esteemed Colchester Borough Council Planning Committee and whaddya know - one of the Big Three items on the agenda is withdrawn.

Woh!

Our friends up on campus at the University of Essex have only gone and pulled the multi-storey car park application that was due to be heard this Thursday. Fear not fans of “iconic design through simplicity” - I understand [ah, *that* phrase...] that this is only a slight sabbatical ahead of a second submission of the same planning application.

So why now?

Well…

You have to look at the bigger picture; you have to look around at the continued development of Wivenhoe Park. You have to look at going down to B & Q and buying a bloody great big back scratcher ahead of the next game of charades with the esteemed members of the Colchester Borough Council Planning Committee.

Yep - these are expansive (and expensive) times for the University. As well as the multi-storey car park application still being very much alive, the University wants to build further accommodation down by the muddy banks of the Colne at the Hythe, a new Business School, as well as the continued development of the Knowledge Gateway [urgh.]

All of these projects bring in extra finances to the Ivory Towers [you sure?] of the Legoland on campus. All of them also bring in extra traffic. Which brings us back to the car park…

I understand [yeah, yeah] that a classic piece of real politik back scratching is currently taking place. It is so delicate that both sides are still sitting in the iron bathtub, B & Q brush firmly in hand and a dirty resin starting to form around the top of the bath tin.

Don’t let that bath water go cold, now Comrades.

Transport is the key, as is a compromise. Details have yet to be finalised, but what the Great God of Sunny Colch Education takes away from the Planning Committee, it resubmits in a few weeks with the added gift of *cough* alternative transport thrown into the equation to appease the non-car lobby.

Is that cryptic enough for you?

I’m under an oath of online secrecy so as not to spill the beans. Or even the Section 106 wonga.

On yer bike…