Friday, July 22, 2005
Redhead's Landing
Redhead's Landing - progress at last!
I attended a meeting this evening of the Riverside Central Area Forum, at Laygate Lane School, the first Council Committee meeting that I have been to since losing my seat over twenty years ago!
I quite enjoyed listening to some of the input, but there again some of the contributors were as effective as a sedative!
However, I am greatly indebted to Cllr. Ed. Malcolm and the Chairman Cllr. John Woods for agreeing to the urgent inclusion of the Redhead's Landing issue. The immediate outcome is that the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council will be discussing the matter tomorrow to facilitate further action. Cllr. Ed. Malcolm was effusive in his desire to see full public rights of access maintained at the site, the meeting also heard from a local resident, with a long memory, who produced his own site plan showing the old landing in it's original context adjacent to River Street, Officers were able to take to take note and we can be assured that moves will no doubt be taken to enforce the original planning conditions when the present gates were erected in 1989.
It was interesting to meet some of the present generation of Councillors, Ed. Malcolm, for instance, reminded me very much of his father when he sat on the old Tyne and Wear County Council, Ken Hickman has not changed in the twenty odd years since I first met him, John Anglin was not what I expected (he was a very lucid and effective questioner of officers).
I only wish that I had known in advance that I had the opportunity to speak to the forum if I so wished, I really wanted to remind the meeting of the previous resolutions passed by the old Town Development Committee and ratified by the full Council, and to express my worries about the actions of Tyne Slipway Engineering Co., but hey ho,this blog is surpassing it's intentions by getting Councillors and oficers to sit up and take notice of the "smaller" issues that the public feel strongly about.
I can now be gratified that issues raised in this weblog, such as Trow Quarry, Temple Memorial Park and the proposed "super school", the shotgun cartridges on Whitburn beach, the seafront redevelopment, the lottery fund application for the South Marine Park, and Redhead's Landing,as well as the flooding at Tyne Dock, are having some impact upon our elected representatives. You can be assured that this weblog will continue to campaign for the "man on the street" and be representative of common viewpoints held across South Shields.
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I attended a meeting this evening of the Riverside Central Area Forum, at Laygate Lane School, the first Council Committee meeting that I have been to since losing my seat over twenty years ago!
I quite enjoyed listening to some of the input, but there again some of the contributors were as effective as a sedative!
However, I am greatly indebted to Cllr. Ed. Malcolm and the Chairman Cllr. John Woods for agreeing to the urgent inclusion of the Redhead's Landing issue. The immediate outcome is that the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council will be discussing the matter tomorrow to facilitate further action. Cllr. Ed. Malcolm was effusive in his desire to see full public rights of access maintained at the site, the meeting also heard from a local resident, with a long memory, who produced his own site plan showing the old landing in it's original context adjacent to River Street, Officers were able to take to take note and we can be assured that moves will no doubt be taken to enforce the original planning conditions when the present gates were erected in 1989.
It was interesting to meet some of the present generation of Councillors, Ed. Malcolm, for instance, reminded me very much of his father when he sat on the old Tyne and Wear County Council, Ken Hickman has not changed in the twenty odd years since I first met him, John Anglin was not what I expected (he was a very lucid and effective questioner of officers).
I only wish that I had known in advance that I had the opportunity to speak to the forum if I so wished, I really wanted to remind the meeting of the previous resolutions passed by the old Town Development Committee and ratified by the full Council, and to express my worries about the actions of Tyne Slipway Engineering Co., but hey ho,this blog is surpassing it's intentions by getting Councillors and oficers to sit up and take notice of the "smaller" issues that the public feel strongly about.
I can now be gratified that issues raised in this weblog, such as Trow Quarry, Temple Memorial Park and the proposed "super school", the shotgun cartridges on Whitburn beach, the seafront redevelopment, the lottery fund application for the South Marine Park, and Redhead's Landing,as well as the flooding at Tyne Dock, are having some impact upon our elected representatives. You can be assured that this weblog will continue to campaign for the "man on the street" and be representative of common viewpoints held across South Shields.
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