Major issues waved aside by the Planning Office of South Tyneside Council.

• That the Slipway Cover is built 3m higher than planned.
• The Slipway Cover has been expanded to house a large travelling crane without planning permission. Change of use?
• UK Docks were offered another site by the Port of Tyne as their plans for the Biomass Handling Facility will landlock UK Dock’s Commercial Road Slipway.
• UK Docks have a virtual monopoly on the maintenance of Pilot Boats (and Shields Ferries for that matter) on the Tyne and the Wear.
• The Port of Tyne must have Pilots to operate properly.
• The Port of Tyne employs many people and spreads it’s largesse (used to, perhaps) in the Borough.

Major misleading communications.

• 9th & 10th Sept 2013 – Shields Gazette.
• 25th Nov 2013 – Meeting at Town Hall.
• 1st April 2014 – Shields Gazette.
• 2nd May 2014 – Letter in Response to Petition.

Shields Gazette 01-Apr-2014	From Greens Place
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