Swimming against the current?

[wishful]

It appears that the proposed development of a new marina is meeting with some hostility...

 

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Marina-proposal-326-berths-Bath-North-East/story-28361226-detail/story.html

[MtB]

I found it amusing that one objection to the marina appears to be that it is to be built on land subject to flood risk!

[Phil Ambrose]

I found it amusing that one objection to the marina appears to be that it is to be built on land subject to flood risk!

Mike, that really is hilarious!!!

Phil

[patty-ann]

Another case of not in our backyard... maybe

300 + boats and car parking for 144 may not balance out.

If floods around there just think all those boats..they'll have a convoy of rescue boats to help out the local community...they should consider positive aspects of plan.

Or perhaps locals perceive boaters as "pikeys" no good thieving etc..

[Sea Dog]

Funnily enough, we were in the Hanbury Flight the other day when a local dog walker stopped to chat. He was enthusing about the adjacent Droitwich Spa Marina and saying what new life it had breathed into the town. Unsolicited praise from the non-boating public in one place, nimbyism in another, but you can't please everyone eh?

[David Schweizer]

My old office was in a building on the junction between Broadmead Lane and the A4 Bath Road in Keynsham, and I am bemusd by the suggestion that local *residents" will be affected by this proposal. It is no one's "back yard" as there are no domestic buildings in Broadmead Lane, or the adjacent area. The site is in open fields adjacent to an industrial park and Sewage works, and on the other side of the main London to Bristol/Exeter Main Railway line. All the buildings in Broadmead Lane itself are either warehouses, large retail outlets, or manufacturing units, the nearest houses are half a mile away on the busy A4, which is hardly a peaceful backwater.

 

The only realistic objection is the risk of flooding, which does occur from time to time all along the Bristol Avon valley, but it does not seem to affect either Saltford marina or Keynsham marina which are about half a mile away on either side of the proposed site. I suspect that some of the objection may be being whipped up by vested interests.

Edited December 15, 2015 by David Schweizer