GateWAy Blog

According to media reports, there has been no communication between the owners of the land that housed the Esplanade Hotel and potential developers for over a year. In fact any plans they had in place have now expired.

Socks placed at the site have attracted media attention and have brought the subject back into sharp focus, initiated by a covert, underground movement of Sock insurgents. No comment from the land owners in Singapore though.

So now maybe we should work at getting some kind of reaction. The area is after all fenced off, so any incursion onto the site would be classified as … what? Trespass?

Chairs and tables next, at the Sunday Session, and although drinking alcohol would be illegal and attract the attention of people authorised to arrest and charge those doing so, there is nothing to stop us sitting around having a chat, a soft drink and and taking photo’s and videos – sending them to the land owners and setting up appropriate pages on Facebook to attract ‘customers.’

Perhaps we could quietly build something as well … I wonder if they’d notice.

There is a designated area for dogs on Middleton Beach – a very generous stretch of sand – so please would dog owners desist  from using the beach close to where people swim and where they know that they can walk without the risk of stepping on a dog mess. (more…)