| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Watermans Park Community Design vs Council Marina Proposal IN A NUTSHELL | |
| Posted by: | Anne England | |
| Date/Time: | 23/05/16 15:27:00 |
| You sound a decent sort Stephen but I still maintain that the community of boaters' concern with the wider public only surfaced when the threat to them became apparent. As I've said in the past, I for a good while (admittedly a long time ago) stopped going down the park because of a particularly shoddy boat which was moored there which had a generator with accompanying fumes on the deck thud, thud, thudding all day long and no doubt all night too. I spoke to a child of about ten down there once who said that she lived on the boat, didn't go to school (a tutor no doubt provided by LBH came to her) and so on and so forth. In the end the boat was abandoned and left to rot on the riverbed. This is not the only boat which has met this fate over the years. As I've also said in the past, I have seen cars which have been driven by boaters into the park more than once over the years - how else did those hulking great logs pre-chopping get into the park anyway? Then there is the matter of the man swinging an axe chopping wood on the main walkway - I have witnessed this myself and the 'shooter' of the video in favour of the boats staying (otherwise quite persuasive) scored an own goal by including the harmless country-folk image of one of the boaters swinging an axe to chop wood on self-same walkway. My overall view is that the boaters have actually taken away from the community as one can barely see the river any more along that stretch. It may well be now that the Council only had the idea of the marina because the boaters put the idea into their heads! The last time I walked along the park I saw that one of the boats has a gate up at the railing end of the walkway warning against trespass. I don't know but I would consider the placing of steps to get over the railings and wood piles on the walkways a bit of a trespass myself. Finally, I've asked before, exactly how is the black water from the boats at Waterman's Park disposed of? I've asked this a number of times and there has never been an answer other than it is disposed of in the right manner. Maybe it is but I would like to know the answer. Also, how do the boats get their electricity - just asking 'cos I really don't know. Presumably they do have electricity ... Okay, I said 'finally' and this is final - how are relations with boaters along other stretches of the river, particularly in Brentford? If you are so convinced of your case, would a few of them not speak up on your behalf? |