PCNP P/A NP/15/0091/FUL OBJECTION please read and support

To replace 1798 grade two listed Royal Society Gold Medal drainage scheme which had stabilised a storm beach and maintained a Calcareous Water Meadow SSSI for Agriculture and Conservation for 215 years until National Trust and Pembroke Coast unlawfuly demolished part of the structure to earn £3.5 M from filming.

See Monitor Officer PCNP Report.

The structure as built was self clearing requiring little maintenance until NT ceased maintenance in 2008.

The remaining structure is now being destroyed by NT use of heavy plant to maintain the outflow.

The resulting steep pebble banks are a continuing danger to users of the beach

Work required

Rebuild the lime mortar inspection chamber

Replace the illegally demolished Culvert on the beach

Planning application is to replace this with a 12 m 600mm plastic pipe laid on the sand surface.

This is

Totally inadequate to to maintain the drainage of then Corse (dimensions of the culvert)

Replacing (dimensions of the Culvert)

Vulnerable to wave damage, replacing 1meter lime mortar foundation overlaid with dressed and lead sealed wrought iron clamped 3.5 m wide mortared 1m,1m1m dressed limestone blocks, to support wrought iron hoops clad with removable 3 inch by 9 inch planks original teak later repaired by greenheart, pitch pine,iroko and after Beecham redundant railway sleepers.

This application is a cynical stage in the NT and PCNP policy of no more maintenance of sea defences in their care.

Health and Safety was used as a spurious reason for demolition despite that the fact that Environment Agency (now NRW)was  retrospectively fitting grills to deny access to culverts all over Wales.

Note the proposed 600mm pipe is not fitted with a grill a child could easily crawl up into the chamber and get trapped

The pipe must extend a least to the width of the bank beyond the bank to prevent seas forcing stones into and blocking the pipe

NOTE there is no provision to remove these obstructive stones to maintain flow and maintain the water levels n the Corse.NT intention is to carry out minimum works.

When this fails after one year to apply to demolish the entire listed structure.

The Scheme as proposed does not comply with EU Waters Directive EU EEL Directive and EU Migratory Fish Directive

Please reject this application and ask then NT to return with a properly researched scheme after all they and others benefited to the tune of £3.5 m.

Skomer Island 2014

2014 was the worst year for bird breeding on Skomer,Island.

One school of thought places the blame on the winter storms,but fails to take historic factors into account..

Returning birds down by a half , only a quarter of those nesting reared one chick.

Only half of these will survive leaving the island for the open sea.

Overfishing is one of the important reasons,factory fishing of sand eels for fertiliser pet food and as food for salmon farming,leaving only species such as pipefish with little food value for the birds to feed their young.

Acidification of seawater by increased atmospheric carbon dioxide a very small change in the Ph from alkalinity towards acid affects the efficiency of all fertilisation membranes.

This affects the breeding of their food sources pelagic surface living fish.

Seabirds which breed on Skomer are long lived, we have not taken account of the increase of ultra violet light which causes cataracts among other changes in visual acuity.

We can see the effects of increasing exposure to UV causing an increase of cataracts in human beings, spectacles prescribed for our children are now being fitted with lenses which block Ultra Violet light,our sea going friends, birds, cannot wear sun glasses.

Past experience has shown that man facilitated disease organisms can spread rapidly through these dense nesting colonies.

We cannot quantify the coastal effects of land based viruses on marine organisms as we no longer use methods to kill them before they are released form our sewage sea outfalls.

Sea bird colonies and seals are vulnerable to disturbance non existent in 1955, 2014 an overwhelming 24 hour revenue raising human presence.

There are few undisturbed and undegraded spaces on our coasts, access for human leisure must not be allowed to cause further harm.

References

Annual Report SWWNT 2014

RSB Reports

University of Bristol

Skomer 2014

A polemic but all based on scientific reports

which I had not accessed before my previous article

There is now to opportunity for change,new officers in the relevant bodies are willing to face facts and change practises in Pembrokeshire but management are muzzling them.

FOI makes this possible.

Ian Campbell 310115

Planning Application Fresh Water West 8 week 200415

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

To replace the listed structure built in 1798 demolished by the National Trust to earn £3.5 million from filming on the beach

See previous posts

Planning application PCNP


For information


Castlemartin Corse Outfall, Freshwater West, Pembroke, SA71 5HW - SR8851199685
"Engineering operations to insall a 12m long 600mm diameter plastic pipe onto..."
NP/15/0091/FUL

Gupton Farm National Trust mismanagement

 When tenanted serious concern about overstocking and erosion.

Six months later under National Trust heavily overstocked even worse erosion

Freshwater West National Trust, the arrogance of ignorance

 the damaged chamber intact from 1798 until NT demolition in spring 2014

latest works a vertical unstable pebble bank 2 meters above rocks anda raging water way  children can enter the damaged unstable 5 m tunnel into the chamber
HEALTH AND SAFETY ENFORCEMENT NO LONGER EXISTS

Freshwater West

More damage to tunnel outfall blocked for migratory fish
210215

Mill Pond Scroll back for photographs before autumn 2014 21C Pond Group.

 Melissa Howells, Elizabeth Gossage "people can do what they want with their property"
 No matter the effect on others and their planning conditions

 Every day trees are being felled in Pembroke to free up the view to sell properties.

  Lesser black backs and Mallard urban pests.

Where have all the swans gone?

THE WATER STINKS

Prison Site Pembroke

More of our history lost with a free for all development policy.
The original Planning Decision was made some years ago under the discredited Brynn and Independent Group Regime
How can listing be ignored?

Wildlife 2014 a snapshot

2014 was the worst year for bird breeding on Skomer,Island.

One school of thought places the blame on the winter storms,but fails to take historic factors into account..

Returning birds down by a half , only a quarter of those nesting reared one chick.

Only half of these will survive leaving the island for the open sea.

Overfishing is one of the important reasons,factory fishing of sand eels for fertiliser pet food and as food for salmon farming,leaving only species such as pipefish with little food value for the birds to feed their young.

Acidification of seawater by increased atmospheric carbon dioxide a very small change in the Ph from alkalinity towards acid affects the efficiency of all fertilisation membranes.

This affects the breeding of their food sources pelagic surface living fish.

Seabirds which breed on Skomer are long lived, we have not taken account of the increase of ultra violet light which causes cataracts among other changes in visual acuity.

We can see the effects of increasing exposure to UV causing an increase of cataracts in human beings, spectacles prescribed for our children are now being fitted with lenses which block Ultra Violet light,our sea going friends, birds, cannot wear sun glasses.

Past experience has shown that man facilitated disease organisms can spread rapidly through these dense nesting colonies.

We cannot quantify the coastal effects of land based viruses on marine organisms as we no longer use methods to kill them before they are released form our sewage sea outfalls.

Sea bird colonies and seals are vulnerable to disturbance non existent in 1955, 2014 an overwhelming 24 hour revenue raising human presence.

There are few undisturbed and undegraded spaces on our coasts, access for human leisure must not be allowed to cause further harm.

References

Annual Report SWWNT 2014

RSB Reports

University of Bristol

Skomer 2014 

National Trust Lies 2015

 More storm revelations

 NT this is a temporary structure built after 1948

Built 1798 until destroyed by National Trust to save money on maintenance Grade  2 Listed

Freshwater West National Trust Intransigence

 Further damage to the 1798 listed chamber compare with Feb 2014

Today 191214 further clearance of the culvert now needing weekly maintenance.Was self maintaining, with minor maintenance has functioned since 1798 until the National Trust abandoned maintenance.

AWAITING PLASTIC PIPE AND COASTAL REALIGNMENT UTTER RUBBISH TRY FOR ONE YEAR FAIL THEN HIS WILL JUSTIFY ABANDONMENT AND ALL THAT THAT ENTAILS. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SSSI.

Freshwater West

In preparation for the filming on Freshwater West beach the National Trust demolished an essential part of the Grade 2 Listed Structure which had functioned for two hundred years since the scheme was awarded the Gold Medal for Agriculture by the Royal Society in 1800

The medal was awarded to John Mirehouse then agent to John Campbell of Stackpole.

Castlemartin Corse was a unique SSSI Calcareous Water Meadow, now due to the demolition it is becoming a Reed Bed Alder Carr one of many in Wales.

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and the National Trust promised to replace the structure after filming for which they were paid the total sum of £3.5 million.

They did not replace the structure but have gradually removed all traces from the beach, only after a long campaign and a Monitor Officer report with the benefit of Freedom of Information Requests they propose to “site a plastic pipe down the beach to see what happens before they realign the coast.”.

Anyone who knows the surf the storm beach and rapid changes in the distribution of the sand one day six feet deep next day gone to reappear days later will understand the futility of the plans agreed by the National Trust Pembrokeshire National Park Pembrokeshire County council and 21C Pembroke.

They made a mistake they broke their promises now they must not continue in denial to save face.

Freshwater West is precious and very vulnerable, the land behind was a functioning system which balanced conservation and agriculture, for the benefit of both until the National Trust ceased maintenance of the drainage to “return it to how God intended”.

Wales Assembly Government Natural Resources Minister

When I Correspond with the minister we expect the Minister to reply,you cannot hide behind Rhodri Kelly there is a clear dichotomy between a strict interpretation of the law and political direction
Concerns 
Grant to Pembrokeshire Coast Forum dominated by commercial exploitation of very precious assets,short term shamefull claptrap.
Grant to NT for Castlemartin Peninsula
To NT in partnership with 21c both guilty of disastrous harmful environmental acts. continuing degradation of the SSSIs in their care.
21c a body set up to attract grants with a proven record of wasting them , a record of using legal threats, to local activists and of taking on board as their own projects and taking grants  for which local societies have already completed.
National Trust legal bullying of concerned members.
South Pembrokeshire estuaries
All degraded all polluted by inaction of PCC PCNP NT all under the stewardship of one NRW employee who we thought had been disciplined
The domination by funding from the Refinery by their grant officer to further the degradation by him one NRW employee and one NT employee.
All this has been documented, with many FOI requests and monitor officer reports
You are ultimately responsible and should take this seriously

Valero Smoke

At this time of year we can see the plumes from the refineries and power station,we have very many dated photographs.
We also have the timed output from our solar panels 3.5 kw down to 150 watts when the wind is blowing the plumes overhead.
NEXT  WEE K PLANNING APPLICATION FOR A WASTE ELECTRICITY GENERATING PLANT (TOXIC WASTE FROM OIL INDUSTRY) TO TAKE UP TO 300 000 TONNES IMPORTED BY SEA

Freshwater West update

National Trust have decided to place a temporary plastic pipe to replace the listed culvert and "See what happens"