It required a certain amount of collusion between the agent, Mario Minchella Ltd, the Planning Officer, Mr Gary Simmonette, who accepted their plans and the Head of Development Services who gave his approval to the modification to include the former dry dock and the public footpath surrounding Nos 14-29 Long Row.
In early 2017 the Head of Development Services, Mr G Mansbridge, simply gave the stretch of the English Coastal Path, running from the slipway next to the Sea Cadets, around the remains of one of Brigham’s former dry docks to their former No 1 dry dock, over which Long Row passed, away to the developers of the waterfront luxury flats because he could. However, he needed their agent to amend the site plans to include the relevant stretch of The English Coastal Path as part of their development’s curtilage before that could be done.
As the permission to rebuild the Beacon lapsed in February 2019, per Section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. I took the opportunity to tidy part of thehabourview.co.uk and that unfortunately included removing the sketch taken from one of the site plans. It was the second of the two shown above and I decided to reinstate it to broaden my general complaint about the corruption stemming from the Council’s planning and building control sections to include the Beacon. I could not remember from which one of the site plans the sketch was taken and looked up the application and discovered that some or all of the plans overwritten in various ways.
The In-House Changes
It appears that GC Architectural Services were not available to edit the plans for planning control so it had to be done in house. This was not like the plans provided by Mario Minchella Architects, for Messrs Simmonette and Mansbridge, per the redevelopment of Garlands’ old call centre.
As one can see, only the first of the site plans shown, most nearly represents what I had lost from my records in 2019, but while I was trying to reinstate the site plan shown in Figure 2 on Page 1, and compiling this document I discovered that the Site Location Plan shown in my Figure 2 below had morphed from Site Location Plan Figure 2 into a variation of Site Location Plan shown in Figure 4.
Or to put it another way, Site Location Plan been edited to show the curtilage, had overnight, been extended over the pavement to make it line up with the fence in front of Nos 95 to 99 Greens Place. The red box had been altered to include the “Blocked Paved Frontage with Glass Block Light Wells.
Figure 2: Site Location 220715 4-Dec-22
It appears that GC Architectural Services were not available to edit the plans for planning control so it had to be done in house. Not like the plans provided by Mario Minchella Architects, for Messrs Simmonette and Mansbridge, per the redevelopment of Garlands’ old call centre.
As one can see, only the first of the site plans shown, nearly represents what I had removed during 2019, but while I was trying to reinstate the site plan shown in Figure 2 on Page 1, I discovered that the Site Location Plan shown in my Figure 2 below had morphed from Site Location Plan Figure 2 into a variation of Site Location Plan shown in Figure 4.
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When Messrs Simmonette and Mansbridge gave the footpath running along the river front, South from the Sea Cadets, to the developer of Utility Wise, they relied on an architect to provide misleading drawings, a fraudulent misrepresentation in legal speak, and this was not the first time it was practiced.
The first time I became aware of the practice some years earlier and concerned my neighbour, and in that case they relied his architect Dr J Martin to provide a misrepresentative drawing, They were Planning Officer Ms C Matten and the Planning Manager Mr G Atkinson.
The second time was when the local residents were provided with drawings, to falsely claimed that, UK Docks had permission for their shed by the Principal Planning Officer, Mr P Cunningham when they had not.
The approved drawings indicated that it should have had a built height at its river end of 15.5m but it had been built to a height of 18m.
His use of PROTECT was a give away that he was repeating a lie.
With the Beacon on Greens Place they were not able to persuade the agent, GC Architectural Services, to redraw the plans to include the immediate frontage so they had amend the plans, to place the light-wells by taking up some of the Public Right of Way, In-House. Please see page 2.
Re: the gift of part of the English Coastal Path to a developer was mentioned at the foot of Page 1 but may have been better to put the blame exactly where it lay, with the Planning Officer Mr G Simmonette.
It did however, require the agent, Mario Minchella Ltd to redraw the boundary of the site to include small dry dock and the public foot path running in front of 14-32 Long Row and the approval of the Head of Development Services, Mr G Mansbridge. Numbers 30-32 are the former Garlands Call centre and properties to the North of it.