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Click on the map to enlarge it. Everything above the thick black line is within IBC's boundary. As you can see Bridgewood is not and yet IBC have bought it from information I have received under the Freedom Of Information Act. I have been mailed the following information.

Thank you for your request for information concerning Orwell Country Park. Your request has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the information you have requested is as follows: The site was purchased in two lots being:-

1. On 9/2/1990---58.8 acres Price GBP 119,535. (GBP = Great Britain Pounds Sterling) my brackets as computers do not like the pound sign and it sometimes comes out as a ?

2 On 5/7.1991---11.3 acres Price GBP 75,000.

Budget for 2006/7 GBP 96,660.

Director Tracey Lee has had somebody mail me acknowledging my mail now too. So as far as I can see the land has belonged to us for 16 years for a capital outlay of nearly GBP 200K and a yearly cost of nearly GBP 100K. I cannot understand why money has been spent on something we already had and before IBC spent our money on it I had much better access to. No doubt I will find more answers as I go along. I am puzzled the first batch of land cost GBP 2,032. per acre and the second batch 15 months late cost GBP 6,637 per acre. That would have been in Jamie Canns time as Council leader I reckon.

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