Faversham Creek Trust

The consultation on Ordnance Wharf development ends on the 29th May. So far there are over 80 objections on line, hundreds of signatures on the written petition and 70 on the Swale E-petition. It is still important that you take the opportunity to comment now whatever your view, whether it is the principal or the scale or the beauty of the beast.

If you want to comment, then the easiest way is to comment on line at;  http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/showCaseFile.do?councilName=Swale+Borough+Council&appNumber=SW/12/0489

Or write quoting Application Ref SW/12/0489 and 0490 Case 11833, to; Swale Borough Council, fao Claire Dethier, Swale House, East St, Sittingbourne, ME10 3HT,   Or Email to: planning@swale.gov.uk.

This will be the first time this century that Standard Quay has been down to just one Thames Barge. The problem now is that the shipwrights have all moved on and so will the floating docks. With no resident Shipwrights or facilities, the barges will go where the resources are set up ready for them,

What happens now to Standard Quay as a centre for Barges?

http://sailingbargecharterdecima.com/index.html

The Trust’s  responses to the Swale Core Strategy Consultation and the Swale Housing Land Availability Assessment [SHLAA] can read here;

FCT Final Submission Core Strategy May 2012

FCT Response to SHLAA

The deadline for commenting on the Ordnance Wharf planning application, is now Tuesday 29th May.

Click on the link below to read the Trust’s objections to the Planning Application for Ordnance Wharf.

FCT Objection to OW planning application

Please continue to send in your comments or sign the Epetition. It is important that the SBC Councillors, Planners, Vanguard Neighbourhood Planning group, and the Applicants, understand the full depth of feeling about this proposal, as well as the wider issues and implications. Read the Trust’s response for a  fuller description of these.

The Epetition for Objecting to the development of Ordnance Wharf is now available on the SBC website at;

http://www.swale.gov.uk/epetitions/PetitionDetail.aspx?PetitionId=132

If you have access to the written petition form being circulated, please use that, but if not then please use this. Do not sign both. The reasons for objecting are rather compressed but are the same as published on this website before.

Faversham Town Council voted last night to reject the plans for a block of flats on Ordnance Wharf.

The public gallery was packed out, standing room only. Jeanne Taylor, from the developer’s team, gave a detailed account of why the flats should be built.  Prof. Chris Wright, speaking for the Faversham Creek Trust, explained why this application was both premature and badly sited.
However, the councillors had no doubt about their decision.
The next stage involves the Borough Council and their planning committee.
We do not have a date for their meeting, as yet.

But keep keep on writing OR you can comment directly on-line here;  http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/showCaseFile.do?councilName=Swale+Borough+Council&appNumber=SW/12/0489