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To: Purbeck District Council

Make Swanage Pierhead Matter

Insist that the development of the pivotal Swanage Pierhead site contains something useful to the community rather than just flats

Why is this important?

The site of the old Pierhead Cafe in Swanage is a critically important location. It is next to the old Victorian Pier and overlooking the part of the seafront where many residents and visitors to the town congregate to walk, talk and drink tea. For years now it has been allowed to fall into extreme disrepair while the owners and the planners have argued about its future use. A mixed use plan, recreating the former cafe site and including a number of flats, most likely to appeal as holiday apartments rather than homes for locals, has been approved. But now the owners want to eliminate the cafe and make this important location purely a block flats. Swanage has few prime seafront sites and this is our last chance to have something worthwhile which benefits the whole community. Please reject this revised plan.

Swanage, Dorset

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Updates

2017-03-07 23:23:01 +0000

Swanage Town Council's Planning Committee have voted unanimously to strongly recommend refusal of this application, citing concerns from Purbeck District Council's Chief Landscape Officer, the Environmental Officer, the Chief Engineer and the Conservation Officer, all of whom express doubts about the suitability of this development for this sensitive site. PDC's Planning Officer, however, has said he is 'minded to approve' the application. The new plans include a blank 3 metre high wall along the whole frontage of the site, adjacent to the footpath, to protect the residents of the flats from an assumed increased flood risk as far ahead as 2115, compared to a 2.4 metre wall in the plans which have been approved.

2017-02-11 20:11:49 +0000

100 signatures reached

2017-02-10 15:32:34 +0000

50 signatures reached

2017-02-09 21:14:05 +0000

25 signatures reached

2017-02-09 11:17:59 +0000

10 signatures reached