So Barton isn't viable. It probably never was, but for those of us who've enjoyed it as our playground for the last quarter century or more it is painful when someone comes along and takes it away.
What the comittee need to do - in fact what they should have done as soon as theis bleedin obvious writing was first put on the wall by Peel - is find a new home for LAC. Not at all easy I grant in these nimby times, but Derby did it when their base of Burnastan became a car factory.
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