[Ianto.W.]

What I would like to know is how does anyone get money for messing up the green belt, never mind the planning permission. This pile of junk is a damnd eyesore, at least 'The Angel Of The North' is pleasing to the eye whatever message it is trying to convey. Why can these funds not be diverted to helping Heroin addicts or homeless people? the money spent on these controversial ventures is nothing short of criminal, when you consider the number of genuine areas it could have been spent.
The old excuse does not wash with me, "if we don't get someone else will" better that than throw money at a pile of scrap, why can these funds not be spent where they are most needed?