[email protected] wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Neil Arlidge" <ne...@...> wrote: > > > > Stuart Mills has replied to the sudden influx of submissions to AVDC > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > MARSWORTH YARD REDEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS > > There has been a lot of discussion recently about proposals by British=20 > > Waterways' partnership (H20) to redevelop Marsworth Yard, much of it untr= > ue.=20 > > We have consulted throughout the planning process with local residents an= > d=20 > > the local council. However, both British Waterways and H20 acknowledge t= > hat=20 > > we could have done more to discuss the plans with a wider audience, and s= > ome=20 > > of the current misunderstandings stem from this oversight. > > This paper has been drafted to reassure anyone concerned about some of th= > e=20 > > issues raised. > > Stuart Mills, property director 26/11/09 > >=20 > I read the documents, and viewed the plans, associated with this planning a= > pplication - including Lathams' "Heritage Assessment". > Stuart Mills' response fails to reassure me. > I feel that it confirms my understanding of the planning application and th= > e text that I submitted in my oblection : > This site is an important part of our national industrial heritage and loca= > ted within a conservation area. As such, unsympathetic maintenance and mod= > ification are not justification for demolition rather than restoration. > The proposed development has no relevance to that heritage and is unsympath= > etic to the conservation area in which it is placed. > - or have I misunderstood ?
The only thing that you may not have understood is that it is being argued in the supporting documents that the stone building (formerly a canal carpentry workshop, now BW offices) is itself out-of-character with the conservation area (being the only stone building other than the church in a village and conservation area which is largely brick-built but with some timber construction), and that therefore there should be a presumption in favour of knocking it down. Not that I'm defending this point of view. PS how about knocking down the church, too? Martin L (Thinks: "the bluestones come from the Preseli mountains and are completely out of character for the Salisbury Plain conservation area...")
