Route Partnership continue to promote development on Battery Rocks beach
7/7/09The Route Partnership has met with newly elected Cornwall Councillors to try and persuade them to support their old scheme to build on Battery Rocks beach. The meeting took place at the same time as Cornwall Council consultants were preparing a report on alternative options.
In an e-mail to the Friends of Penzance Harbour, Tim Wood the Project Director has explained that while the Route Partnership has “an open mind”, in the absence of a completed study on alternative options their “position is unchanged, preferring Option A” which is to build on Battery Rocks beach.
The Friends of Penzance Harbour believe that neither Cornwall Council nor the Route Partnership should take a position until all the facts have been gathered about all the options and, as they admit themselves, they have not previously considered an out of town freight depot and the use of existing Council-owned quayside buildings for a passenger terminal.
It is deeply disappointing that the Route Partnership and Cornwall Council should still be trying to promote their old scheme when 672 letters of objection have been lodged with planners and only 8 local people have expressed their support for the scheme. The activities of the Route Partnership call into question the motives of Cornwall Council’s move to appraise alternative options and raise doubts about the likelihood of the appraisal being an objective and unbiased account of the various options available.
The Friends of Penzance Harbour are urging objectors to contact their new County Councillors and make sure they know the continued strength of opposition to the Route Partnership scheme.
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