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9:08 pm
July 4, 2009


rogerlowry

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This link or something of a similar name disappeared in the revamp so to keep everybody up to speed I am re-booting it.

Things have not gone quiet on this topic. The DfT consultation as a result of unease about the RP plans has been completed – they will not comment on it until they assess the RP Harbour Revision Order later in the year.

Two meetings took place on Tuesday 30th June. For five and a half hours the Friends of Penzance Harbour discussed the draught consultation commissioned by the RP into alternative schemes. They are now drawing up a new draught.

A meeting between the RP and local councillors took place that evening and I have been informed that the RP were told they will not be developing on Battery Rocks Beach!

The councils planning department have completed their breakdown of the objections registered against the Route Partnership plan for the historic sea front in Penzance and for your interest it shows the vast majority writing in objecting to the proposal – 672 against and 8 in favour!

9:19 pm
July 4, 2009


Chris

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Proud to say I was one of those 672

8:39 pm
July 7, 2009


rogerlowry

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The Route Partnership has met with newly elected Cornwall Councillors to try and persuade them to support their old scheme to build on Battery Rocks beach. The meeting took place at the same time as Cornwall Council consultants were preparing a report on alternative options.

In an e-mail to the Friends of Penzance Harbour, Tim Wood the Project Director has explained that while the Route Partnership has "an open mind", in the absence of a completed study on alternative options their "position is unchanged, preferring Option A" which is to build on Battery Rocks beach.

The Friends of Penzance Harbour believe that neither Cornwall Council nor the Route Partnership should take a position until all the facts have been gathered about all the options and, as they admit themselves, they have not previously considered an out of town freight depot and the use of existing Council-owned quayside buildings for a passenger terminal.

It is deeply disappointing that the Route Partnership and Cornwall Council should still be trying to promote their old scheme when 672 letters of objection have been lodged with planners and only 8 local people have expressed their support for the scheme. The activities of the Route Partnership call into question the motives of Cornwall Council’s move to appraise alternative options and raise doubts about the likelihood of the appraisal being an objective and unbiased account of the various options available.

The Friends of Penzance Harbour are urging objectors to contact their new County Councillors and make sure they know the continued strength of opposition to the Route Partnership scheme.

See http://www.friendsofpenzanceha…..bour.co.uk

8:54 pm
July 16, 2009


rogerlowry

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Phillip Hygate Chief Executive of the Isles of Scilly Council on the 14th July stated that the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company could relocate its freight and passenger service to Falmouth.

Mr Hygate with all due respect speaks for the Route Partnership not the IoSSSCo.
I believe 6 ferry companies have tendered to operate the service – we have not been told who has won the process.

In fact it has been suggested that if the IoSSSCo fail to win the tendering process and, according to the RP, the Gry and Scillonian III having no resale value, they would continue to operate in opposition to the RP as they are trading profitably.

Also he suggested that if the RP operation were moved to Falmouth the extra journey time (an hour in his opinion) would require a rethink on the boat i.e. a much faster vessel. This is precisely what Hyders (UK) Consulting told them in 2004 when they also rejected the South Pier/Battery Beach option.

5 years down the line the RP are still going for the wrong boat and terminal.

Meanwhile English Heritage in April 2009 said they don't like the rock armour and infill burying the length of the pier, they would like to see a reduction in scale of the proposal to reclaim land, a reduction in height of the new section of quay wall and less of the existing wall demolished to create access, natural materials be used for any extensions to the quay (consistent with existing structure); or consideration be given to locating the passenger and freight terminal in an alternative location, less harmful to the historic environment.

The South West Design Review Panel in June 2009 said "We would have preferred a review at an earlier stage…We would have liked to have understood why an option outside the sea wall was chosen…. Can this really be the most practical and environmental site for the terminal and ferry berth?"

The people of Penzance are justified in rejecting the Route Partnership proposal for their historic seafront.
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