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Thames party boat riles residents with plan for 3am revels (telegraph.co.uk)

 

 

Oceandiva London

 

For revellers hoping to indulge in some guilt-free bacchanalia, the Oceandiva pleasure barge may seem like a gift from the gods. 

The 1,500-person party boat promises to be a “revolutionary” net-zero events venue for London. It is set to be captained by Robert Dwan, whose family have run cruises on the river for decades. His father, Ken Dwan, owned Tidal Cruises, owners of Marchioness, the pleasure cruiser that sank in 1989, killing 51 people.

The idea is for the Oceandiva to host all kinds of events and conferences, but in its planning application Oceandiva London has applied to be allowed to operate from Monday to Sunday between 11am and 2.30am the following morning.

It has also applied for an extension to all its licensable activities on six days of the week to 3am.

 

Peter Golds, Conservative councillor in Tower Hamlets, told The Telegraph that allowing the party boat would be a disaster for residents.

“This is not an industrial river anymore, the area along it is residential,” he said, adding “you imagine at one o’clock on a summer’s morning when you’re trying to go to sleep and there are 1,500 people having a party slowly going past your bathroom windows on the River Thames.

“And to say nothing of when it docks, wherever it docks, all those people who have been on that boat for hours who will be absolutely p----d as newts staggering into the street going God knows where [at 3am].”

 

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Having party boats with up to 200 revellers go past late at night is bad enough but this Behemoth is on far greater scale.

 

There is a petition here https://www.change.org/p/the-london-mayor-the-ocean-diva-party-boat-will-ruin-the-most-historic-part-of-the-thames?recruiter=295413633&recruited_by_id=d59fa610-f8e0-11e4-95e5-09b49dd68e52

 

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9 hours ago, Machpoint005 said:

 

Interestingly, it doesn't matter who was there first -- a nuisance is a nuisance, even though it is not properly defined in law. 

 

Yes it does. 

 

The person who arrived last and doing the complaining is the nuisance.

 

 

 

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30 minutes ago, enigmatic said:

I could forgive the noise, but not the oligarch yacht style of the boat :) 

Its certainly pig ugly innitt. Most stuff has gone that way over the years, look at Tesla cars, proper ugly and new architecture much of which is bloody awful :(

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Interesting to see it is Kenny Dwan's son doing it.

 

One hopes that the rather dodgy vibes with the Marchioness and the modifications prior to her accident and sinking won't transfer onto this thing.

 

It seems too big. I can see bad things happening with a boat that size on the River in the dark.

 

I suppose at least it won't get sunk by a dredger.

 

Is the rear view visbility alright for the skipper?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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