and Immediate Responses to enquiry 10th Jan 2014

• Email 13th January 2014 by the Principal Planning Officer.

The queries that you raise are not new, indeed I have been repeating my response to them for some time now, and you will recall that I explained the planning aspect of the Council’s position to you regarding this development during our meeting. This meeting included the chair and representatives of your residents group, and Councillors Anglin and McMillan. This meeting was requested by the residents and it was arranged by the Councillors.
My understanding is that the responses that I had provided to you at this meeting  enabled the matter to be closed[0].
May I therefore suggest that you speak with the Chair of the residents group in respect of the points that you have raised below, as these have already been discussed and explained. If you are still not satisfied with the Council’s response then you should use the Council’s complaints procedure which has 3 stages.

Peter Cunningham
Principal Planning Officer

I went over his head to the Planning Manager and got a reply:

• Email 15th January 2014 by the Planning Manager. This email is quite long and provides opinions and information not relevant to my observation that the cover is not being built to approved plans. However in this reply he says:

The permission was subject to the conditions shown on the decision notice. Work commenced to lay foundations and this was inspected by South Tyneside Council’s Building Control service on 26th February 2001. A further inspection on 22nd May 2001 showed that the foundations were fully concreted[1].

The drawing that was submitted on 11th April 1996 with the application is numbered 8296/1A. That shows the overall height of the structure as 15.5m above the foundation level at the landward end. At the riverside end the foundations are shown as 2.656m lower due to the gradient of the slipway. The structure would therefore be that much higher at the riverside end[2].

A second drawing was received by TWDC on 4th June 1996 from the developer’s agent. That is numbered 8296/2. This shows longitudinal and transverse sections through the site to illustrate the relationship between the proposed building and the gradient of the site, the riverside revetment and existing buildings on the site. This drawing is stamped ‘Approved by Tyne and Wear Development Corporation date 8/7/96 22/8/96’[3].

The dimensions of the steelwork have been checked on site and they are in accordance with the measurements shown on the approved drawings[denial-4]. The variation in the angle of the pillars is not considered to be material[4].

With regards to condition 2, this does not require any submission by the developer[5].

Drawing no. 8296/14 is a recent drawing submitted to discharge condition 4 and it shows the strip curtain doors fixing details[6].