jhndyk 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 Waterways' partnership (H20) to redevelop Marsworth Yard, >> much of it untrue. We have consulted throughout the planning process >> with local residents and the local council. However, both British >> Waterways and H20 acknowledge that we could have done more to >> discuss the plans with a wider audience, and some of the current >> misunderstandings stem from this oversight. >> This paper has been drafted to reassure anyone concerned about some >> of the issues raised. >> Stuart Mills, property director 26/11/09 >> > > I read the documents, and viewed the plans, associated with this > planning application - including Lathams' "Heritage Assessment". > > Stuart Mills' response fails to reassure me. > I feel that it confirms my understanding of the planning application > and the text that I submitted in my oblection : > > This site is an important part of our national industrial heritage > and located within a conservation area. As such, unsympathetic > maintenance and modification are not justification for demolition > rather than restoration. The proposed development has no relevance to > that heritage and is unsympathetic to the conservation area in which > it is placed. > > - or have I misunderstood ? > > John Dyke
No John, I think you got it right. The sad thing is we have a navigation authority that are guardians of a large percentage of the hertiage structures in this country, whose relationship has obviously compleatly broken down with English Heritage. BW are exposeing thenselves, yet again as a bunch of rank amatuers....and we signed up for them to keep their property portfolio? :-( -- Neil Arlidge NB Earnest / Barge Maurice A TNC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
