March
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 3.3.14 | Meeting at South Shields Sailing Club following Council’s acceptance that the shed is 2.7m too high. Residents (30 or so) decide to raise a Petition andI am intructed to write to the Council to ask for removal of the shed or to meet with us to explain themselves. Neither events took place! |
| 4.3.14 | Email to Planning requesting a cessation of work and a meeting with the Planning Office to explain their actions re unplanned slipway cover. Email 4.3.14 |
| 4.3.14 | Within an hour the Planning Manager replied to: Michael Dawson and copied to 5 other Residents. Subject: Slipway Development, River Drive Thank you for your email. Now I have this the Council will be able to provide a response. At this stage I am not sure who that will be from. Regards The response was made by the Head of Development Services – in May by which time the shed had been in use tfor two months! |
| 08.3.14 | Principal Planning Officer Misinforms EnquirerVery noisy Week End & next few days causing a lot of complaints. |
| 17.3.14 | Port of Tyne Tug taken onto Slipway, late afternoon. |
| 20.3.14 | With the slipway put into use it has become clear that UK Docks appears to be above the law.
~so~ Reminder to Planning requesting a cessation of work and a meeting for the Planning Office to explain their actions re: unplanned slipway cover. Reminder 20.3.14 |
| During March | A Petition was drawn and nearly 200 signatures gathered (30 of which I gathered by using a Petition on this website). |
April
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 1.04.14 | Gazette Petition Spoiler using amongst other things the petition signatory numbers garnered from this website which happened to be out of date. The height of the cover was wrong as well, by some 14ft, not 36ft but 50ft+ . Gazette Article 1.4.14 |
| 3.04.14 | Present Petition of nearly 200 signatories to Town Hall: Petition FAO the Chief Executive. I learn from others at the presentation of the petition that the Port of Tyne application to extend their quay to handle the expansion of the Boimass Facility is to go before the Planning Committee the following Monday. |
| 04.4.14 | Uk Docks is very noisy and it’s beginning to look as if though the Planning Office are being directed to make decisions to the benefit of “vested interests” and not the community surrounding the UK Docks slipway on River Drive. Please see similar experiences to mine in parallel correspondence. Meanwhile I chase Head of Development Services for a reply to my email 3rd March to the Planning Manager. I am not happy with the developing situation and it shows in my email. The main point of the letter was to stress that slipway cover had been built 3m t00 high:- You, the Council should I say, have known since at least the 27th of September 2013 that the shed has not been built to plan and appear to be evading the issue since then and we would like to know the justification for attempts to cover this up. It looks like a) you treat the outcrys in 1996 and 2001 as nothing b) the Townhall meeting of 25th Nov about ST/1146/13/COND was used to misinform representatives of the residents, they were incorrectly advised that the structure met legal requirements and c) the reticence of any elected members of the Council (ward and Planning committee) to comment on the inappropriate development on the riverside. To cap it all there was an article in the local paper on Apr 1st showing most flattering photograph of the offending shed saying that it was only 36ft high. The author of the article may have got away with saying that in September but not now. You should know that it is over 50 ft high and that is what we have been saying for months now. It’s planned height is about 42ft. Acknowledged but not answered. |
| 6.4.14 | Hi Michael, On the question of why are they allowed to carry out work before it was finished the tug that was in there a few weeks ago getting work done was the tug used last night in connection with the fire works display it was in the middle of the harbour. So no doubt it was serviced at the request or because the council needed it for the display to go on. Peter |
| 18.4.14 | Great North Passion vicki.newman@jpress.co.uk 16:29 Friday 18 April 2014 wrote in the Gazette: THE nation’s eyes were on South Shields today as The Great North Passion was broadcast live. Around 4,000 people flocked to South Shields seafront as the religious extravaganza was broadcast today on BBC One from Bents Park, in Sea Road. Made up of a number of performances from North East people, it retold the last hours of Christ in celebration of Good Friday. It was the culmination of work that started in 12 communities in South Tyneside, Sunderland and across the region several months ago.The Great North Passion was a collaboration between the BBC and The Cultural Spring, a £2m Arts Council funded project working in 10 wards across South Tyneside – including Biddick and All Saints, Boldon Colliery, Cleadon and East Boldon, Whitburn and Marsden and Whiteleas.Read more: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/what-s-on/video-the-great-north-passion-broadcast-live-from-south-shields-1-6570007 |
| 25.4.14 |
The Planning Manager bows out:From: Gordon.Atkinson@southtyneside.gov.uk |
| 29.4.14 | North Shields Ferry taken onto Slipway |
| During April |
Another 100 or so signatures added to the Petition.
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| P1: January | P2: February | P3: March and April |
| P4: May and June | P5: 2nd half of year | |