Friends of Penzance Harbour call on Councils to provide political leadership
19/2/09In an open letter to the chairmen of Penwith District Council and Cornwall County Council the Friends of Penzance Harbour have called on elected representatives to provide leadership and stop the Route Partnership from proceeding further with their unpopular plans for Penzance harbour.
"Public exhibitions held by the Route Partnership in September 2008 and January 2009 have given the public the opportunity to study in detail and at length what is being proposed by the Route Partnership for Penzance harbour. Feedback from those exhibitions and other straw polls show that an overwhelming majority of the public are against the plans . Despite this, Tim Wood, Project Director for the Route Partnership, has said that they will be pressing ahead with plans to lodge a planning application for their harbour redevelopment scheme later in February .
"It is wasting taxpayer’s money and local authority time to prepare and process a planning application for a project that is opposed by the vast majority of the public. Opposition to the scheme is not based solely on matters that can be considered as part of the planning application process and these other issues need to be resolved before any planning application is made.
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