I am becoming increasingly concerned about the safety of our cliffs, having discovered that the cliff behind the Pleasurama site was considered to be dangerous, looking around we have several cliff supports that look to be much more dangerous. The one photographed above has got into this state because of a planning dispute between the council and the site owner, as far as I can ascertain.
Ironically TDC appear to have refused planning consent because the development could be viewed from the conservation area above, I say ironically because they seem to be behind the Pleasurama application further along.
If you click here you can see just what a mess this site has become and if you click here you can see what happens when the cliff collapses.
The site itself is just one of many where the safety fencing is broken meaning that children can get into this dangerous area.
According to my very shakey grasp of planning law the owner of said land should be able to put together a case that cites the granted permissions and would then have some grounds to consider appeal to higher authority or calling for an investigation into planning practices. (I am not a law expert etc etc).
ReplyDeleteMatt I think the problem is that he thought he had a reasonable development that would improve a very unpleasant and dangerous true brownfield site. When obstacles were put in his way that seemed unreasonable to him he spent his money elsewhere. I didn’t see the plans and they don’t appear on the government website so I can’t really tell you if he was justified, he came in the shop and told me about it after he had seen my stuff about Pleasurama, he just couldn’t believe they had passed it after turning his much shorter and more modest design down.
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