Right enough I think the whole situation is poop, The only reason that things have been kicking off like they have is because of the flats that have just been built, its nothgin to do with the hotel, they dont even notice them most of the time.... but yeah, I think that the people that have lashed out all that money to buy those flats have NO RIGHT to complain about the boully bashers, its like buying a house next to an airfield and complaining about the airplanes or going to a swimming pool and complaining that its wet in there... if you dont like it then dont move there, better still, dont build houses there...
What does get me though, Is that, if you move them on from there, where are they going to go? safe to say that they are not going to go away, it just means that you are going to inflict them on someone else that didn't buy a house anywhere near where they are for a reason...
Now dont get me wrong, I'm not a ned and I never have been, But live and let live, as much as they should be put down and there cars crushed... its what they do...
also, the other point about closing that road is that it will increase the traffic by something like 2000% on the surrounding roads which is just mental....
I have been down there once in a while, More when the EastsideVW guys are out normally just for a natter, mainly to catch up with my bro, most of those guys are not in anyways into there distastefull mods, but like you say there is the big contingent that are the fools...