Boys and their toys, a test post relating to camera settings in my new phone

Ramsgate Lunchtime

Landscape

App

Old Photos pf Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs and a phone ramble

I changed phone today mainly because I need to connect a standard SD card to my phone

lots of snaps using the phone and apps on the phone here is the link to them

This time it's an Oukitel K3

Here is the link to the books that went out in the bookshop today

Sunday Ramble, photos old and new Ramsgate Canterbury Margate and inevitably the Manston DCO saga.

The main issue this week has been the withdrawal of the Development Consent Order to build an airfreight hub at Manston.

I think the most worrying factor here is that this DCO application was put together by a reasonably good and professional team with previous DCO experience and that the net result of the DCO process so far has been to change the Thanet District Council administration to Conservative and cause Thanet to produce no Local Plan giving something of a free for all for housing developers.

This (in big blue) is what the Planning Inspectorate have said so far:-

1. Any resubmission by the Applicant will be treated as a new application for the purposes of the process. The Planning Inspectorate would have up to 28 days to take its decision about whether the application could be accepted for examination.

2. The Planning Inspectorate called the Applicant’s legal representatives (BDB Law) on 1 May 2018, setting out its principal concerns in respect of the application documents. Those concerns included:

• An absence of sufficient information within the application documents upon which to the Planning Inspectorate could base a decision about whether the Proposed Development constitutes a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) within the meaning in s23 of the Planning Act 2008.

• Gaps in the ecological, archaeological and ground investigation survey data presented within the Environmental Statement (ES) accompanying the application, which create uncertainty in the assessment of likely significant effects.

• Inconsistencies/ omissions in the noise and vibration assessment.

• The adequacy of the Transport Assessment accompanying the ES.

• The adequacy of the Funding Statement.

On 3 May 2018 a teleconference was held between the Planning Inspectorate, BDB Law and RiverOak Strategic Partners (RSP). During this teleconference the Planning Inspectorate repeated its principal concerns (above) in the presence of RSP, who confirmed their intention to withdraw the application. Subsequently the application was formally withdrawn by letter dated 4 May 2018.

Today (11 May 2018) a meeting took place between the Planning Inspectorate and the Applicant at which the Inspectorate provided more detailed s51 advice in respect of the concerns noted within the documents associated with the withdrawn application. A note of the meeting is being prepared and will be published in the usual way in due course.

Here is the link to this advice on the Planning Inspectorate’s website https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/manston-airport/?ipcsection=advice&ipcadvice=3755f4d631

Of course, we will have to wait to read the meeting note to grasp all of it, but with so much wrong with the application it is difficult not to assume that the applicant knew the application would fail when they submitted it and what has actually happened is what they set out to achieve. 

A few historic local pictures next 

The bookshop being closed on Sunday we went to Canterbury where we did some shopping and stuff. I spent about half the time in Chocolate Cafe and the other half in bookshops. While I am on the bookshop subject here is the link to the books that went out in the bookshop yesterday mostly children's Ladybird Books and books about old busses.

I took a few photos of Canterbury, here is the link 

Back to the DCO process I think the thing that hasn’t really been understood properly by people commenting about it, is that the process is front loaded and that this means that the applicant really has to have sorted out the issues before submitting the application.

I am assuming that the next stage will be another round of consultation with revised documents, but who knows they may just revise the documents but not consult anyone, as far as I can see Canterbury and Ramsgate councils didn't even get told about the last round of consultation, let alone get to the stage where RiverOak entered into some sort of dialogue with them.

Art in Margate today, Antony Giles in Pie Factory a ramble and some photos

First the Antony Giles exhibition, which was the high point of the day, this only runs until Wednesday.

I went to Margate today, I suppose you deduced that.

 Sos, egg, chips and bacon in Turner Contemporary

A wet day in Margate, there is a fairly well known historic photo of a wet day in Margate, so I had a go with my mobile phone.

Here it is - I couldn't get the audience onto the stage as it was too Brecht.

Turner Contemporary art gallery is between exhibitions at the moment, this means that people who have turned up at the gallery to do. What? Perhaps say contemporary art is a load of rubbish, finding there is no contemporary art, put themselves in wosisname, checkmate - perhaps. Various levels of people pretending they aren't here/there by accident has and appeal.

    I daubed away at my watercolour mopping up the ambience in the cafe until the rain abated.

 On to the Bank Bookshop where they have removed about a third of the bookcases and seem to be going into the picture business

 Is it art I ask?

On to Hooked on Books as the chap who works there used to work here.

On to Henrys which is having a long closing down sale

where the Henrys showed me a picture of when it was Reeves

 Reeves in Margate not only had a mobile stage

They also had a wosisname

Margate fascinates me, always has since I worked there in the 1970s. I really was an unsuitable day for snapshot camera photography but here is the link to the photos on my camera card 

There may be a moral here about taking your toy duck out and sailing too close to Mr Gormley

New lighthouse in Margate in 1953, Älva 3-masted schooner in Ramsgate and about another 50 photos taken today

Margate Lighthouse rebuilt after the previous one was washed away in the1953 storm

Here is the link to the rest of today’s Ramsgate photos http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/518l/id18.htm

Built at the Lödöse shipyard next to Gothenburg in Sweden in 1939 as a 3-masted schooner with Bermuda rig, used as a sailing cargo vessel. Lengthened in Bremerhaven, in 1951. Converted to a charter vessel between 1989-1997.

A fair amount of local history among the books we put out today here is the link to the pictures of them http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/jerusalem-by-montefiore-in-bookshop.html