Please take 10 minutes to read this and take action by 24th July (three days time)
Your objection does not need to be long or complicated, if you only have 5 minutes to spare simply write a line stating your objection.

Firstly the status of our petition oversized shed being built on River Drive South Shields by UK Docks is that ST Council have admitted that the ’shed’ has not been built to plan, and the only course of action available to the Council to consider is to ask the developer to take the shed down, but they have decided not to enforce that action. That fight goes on.

I realise people will be continuing with their own complaints and efforts but must emphasis that the more objections lodged the louder our voice. Its not one objection per household, so please if more than one adult resides at your property get everyone to lodge their own objection, even if its simply repeating the points. Also please forward this email to family friends and colleagues. We have been liaising with residents and officials on the North side of the river who had not been officially informed and are voicing their concerns.

The new Planning Application submitted by UK Docks was discussed back in August 2013 with ST Planning Dept in a pre-planning meeting. This new application includes an extension to the “unauthorised” oversized shed, a second shed the size of the extended one, fabrication workshops, three storey office blocks, and adding a second slipway and large jetty extending out into the river. Approval of this plan would see the re-siting of an existing yard (no new jobs). This can be viewed on South Tyneside Planning Portal http://www.southtyneside.info/article/9015/Search-planning-applications  reference number Ref ST/14/0461/FUL

I can’t emphasis enough the inappropriateness of the proposed development so close to the mouth of the river (effecting tourism, cultural, heritage and residential). There are numerous appropriate vacant sites which we have researched further up the river away from residential housing and tourism and heritage sites.

Should this development gain approval we suspect pollutants (both noise and environmental) will substantially increase. This will affect the whole area, with a negative impact on the visual amenity, tourism facilities, residential housing, maritime heritage, the wildlife corridor, river, and beaches.

Please review the attached information and the proposed planning application to South Tyneside Council (Ref ST/14/0461/FUL) on ST Planning Portal.

Should you require any further information please feel free to contact me directly through this email, my full contact details are at the bottom of the email. You can also gain further information at a website set up by one of the residents at www.theharbourview.co.uk

Some of the grounds on which objections are being raised include:

Inappropriate siting in close proximity to residential housing
Negative impact on the visual amenity
Negative impact on the wildlife corridor
Negative impact on tourism and local business (especially with the increased number of cruise liners now coming into the Tyne)
Inappropriate size of buildings in close proximity to Conservation areas, Local Heritage trails, and main areas of tourism
Unacceptable increased noise nuisance

Kind regards,
Melanie Todd