On Monday, May 14, 2007 11:55 AM [GMT+1=CET], BARRY HOLLAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However the > situation there may change > as there are plans to landscape the area when they put in the new > footbridge (actually the old Bishop's Bridge by Brunel, retored and > relocated). When > that happens (next year or the year after) > > > Somewhere in the flurry of replies re LV I think I saw that plans to > re-erect this bridge have been shelved. Are you saying [& I hope you > are] that , @ some indeterminate time in the future, the bridge > will * definitely* be replaced? & just where could it go? I'm sure > we've corresponded about this before. A logical place for a bridge > would surely be between Rembrandt Gardens & the towpath between the > puppet boat & Warwick Avenue road bridge, as indeed was the temporary > case one year. Or , thinking more grandly, how's about a > "Wembley-style" arch over Browning's Pool? Barry Nb > onesmallstepforman As far as I know the City of Westminster/BW plans for the new bridge are still alive, although I'm far from certain of its timing. The new/old footbridge will be alongside Harrow Road bridge connecting the towpath outside the Nissan building to the Paddington Stone Wharf site that Cavalcade used to use. The plans include a cafe and an information office under the ramps leading up to the bridge, and landscaping the Stone Wharf site. The drawings that were exhibited som time last year also showed a boaters' facilities block at the other end of the Stone Wharf site. The problem of what to do by the Warwick Avenue bridge has been the subject of a lot of discussion. over a number of years. A scheme was proposed (to which London IWA was prepared to make a substantial donation in memory of Richard Bird). This woud have built an access ramp up to the road from the north towpath of the Pool. It failed to get planning permission for a number of reasons (a) it was felt that it would have disfigured the road bridge, which is a listed structure (the same reason why we coudn't even consider a permanent footbridge there), (b) the roads people insisted that a footway opening onto the road at that point woud be dangerous and (c) there was a tree in the way that the planners did not want removed. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
