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Fears developers are failing to keep promises to provide community services when building neighbourhoods have been raised by councillors.

Great Hollands North councillors Mary Temperton and Michael Gbadebo claim Jennetts Park developers are not carrying out their obligations.

During a meeting between Bracknell Forest Council and the Jennetts Park Consortium, which built the development in Peacock Farm, on Wednesday, September 3, it was concluded none of the outstanding developer contribution requirements had been met.

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Cllr Gbadebo said: The council outlined its disappointment with the speed at which everything is happening.

There have been a number of broken promises from the developers as well as a failure to develop certain things on time. We, as a council, need to do more we need to see some action.

When planning applications are approved by the council, developers are given a list of agreed contributions which they must provide.

These obligations range from providing community centres and schools to roads and recycling areas to ensure the council does not have to pay out for infrastructure to support new developments.

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A holistic center known as Oki-Do is proposed for this former oyster processing plant in East Marion. (Credit: Jen Nuzzo)

Nearly six years after its draft environmental impact statement was deemed inadequate by the Southold Town Planning Board, the proposed Shizen Hotel Wellness Center and Spa, also known locally as the Oki-Do, is again making waves in East Marion.

Dr. Kazuko Tatsumura Hillyer, the owner of the bayfront property at the end of Shipyard Lane, filed a dredging permit application with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Aug. 12.

But members of the Southold Town Planning Board, which has served as lead agency for the environmental review process, and the Board of Trustees said this week that they hadnt been notified about the dredging permit application until after neighbors of the proposed spa received a public notice from the Army Corps.

Dr. Hillyer, a resident of New York City, first proposed building the holistic center on the 18.7-acre former oyster processing plant property along Gardiners Bay in 2003.

The proposal, which has been described as larger than any existing health spa on Long Island, includes 114 guest rooms, a 195-seat restaurant and bar and a second private restaurant with up to 99 additional seats, 27 spa suites, a pool, three gazebos, a gift shop and a man-made lake. A total of 28 buildings has been proposed for the site.

The site plan application also includes replacement of the existing bulkhead on the property and the dredging of a 16-slip private marina.

Town planning officials said Dr. Hillyer has not submitted a revised environmental impact study to the town since the initial document was rejected in 2008. They said the only contact theyve had with Dr. Hillyer since November 2008 came in February 2013, after the town contacted her to say the site plan application would be withdrawn due to inactivity. She responded 10 days later to say she intended to continue the site plan process, officials said.

When reached via email last week, Dr. Hillyer, who holds a doctorate in oriental medicine from the International Academy of Education, said she was traveling and deferred comment to her attorney, Patricia Moore of Southold.

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As someone who grew up with only a sister, plays about brothers (like True West) have never spoken to me. But plays about fathers and sons? Hoo boy.

So take it with the smallest grain of salt when I say People's Light and Theatre Company's staging of August Wilson's Fences is one of the best productions I've seen in years. No small part of this success stems from Wilson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning script, whose conflicts could have constituted three separate plays.

Set in 1957, Fences concerns the extended family of African American patriarch Troy Maxon, played by Michael Genet. A city sanitation worker, he rages that there are no black drivers, risking his position with resentment held over from his time in the Negro Leagues, when baseball's majors still barred black athletes. Through grueling workweeks, Troy virtuously (and at times, viciously) protects and supports his wife Rose (the exceptional Melanye Finister), their teenage son Cory (Ruffin Prentiss), Cory's half-brother Lyons (Wendell Franklin), and Troy's wounded veteran brother, Gabriel (G. Alvarez Reid).

Kamilah Forbes' unflinching direction refuses to sugarcoat any of their struggles, nor does she once apologize for the means each uses to solve them. Finister leads an excellent ensemble that also includes Troy's best friend, Bono (Brian Anthony Wilson), and Troy's daughter, Raynell (Cameron Hicks), the product of an affair.

For nearly three hours I sat riveted, the intensity of the production and Genet's magnificent performance leaving me to wonder whether I've ever cared this much about my own family. Though he is the shortest member of the cast, Genet towers over them, thundering as he thumps his chest and terrifying when he threatens. The audience applauded his ethical admonitions, laughed loudly at his often self-deprecating bravado, sat in silence at his hypocrisy.

Like any father, Genet's Troy both basks and suffers in these contradictions of outwardly loving too little while controlling too much, knowing he harms while trying to do good. He leaves a family that reveres his efforts, chafes at the self-sacrifices he redirects back at them, and endures under the long shadow he casts over their lives, and this production - a shadow that lingers long after he passes.

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