Enquiry 2: Slipway Development – River Drive.
Drawing 8296/14
The Planning manager said at the end of the paragraph on drawing 8296/14, “The north elevation is 15.6m high with a width of 12.2m.” He is totally wrong – the north elevation is the landward or River Drive end of the shed.
The detail is the downward end, south end or river end.
- the cladding is on the outside
- note saying . . . . to allow access for boats.
Examination of this drawing number (8296/14) gives a detail of the beam and portal column, depth or width of 0.686m, with which the height and width of the north elevation can be gauged(15.6 and 12.2m). This means that the other end, south or landward or road end, would have a planned height of 12.5m.
To put this simply the only drawing in the public domain indicates a planned road end height of 12.5m. I should have stressed the north end is not the road end.
The Planning Office were defending UK Docks position by using a flawed planning document (provided by UK Docks) to maintain that the shelter is built to the correct height. When it became apparent that 8296/1B was drawn in 1997 they then ‘found’ and used 1A .
The road end of the shelter is built 15.5m high.