http://greystonesharbour.org/hoardings-gone-carbuncle-gone-new-harbour-off
GREYSTONES, 6 Oct 2011— The ‘Give Us Back Our Harbour’ group welcomes the fact that Sispar today at the harbour from the North Beach Road as far as the old club compounds.
Sispar also removed the old site office, which GUBOH had described as a ‘decrepit carbuncle’, from its position opposite the Beach House and replaced it with a new harbourmaster’s office located just north of the public slipway.
“These were demands made by GUBOH, the harbour residents, and Greystones Chamber at the Harbour Liaison Committee meeting on September 13 last. It is very gratifying to see Sispar deliver so quickly on their agreement to do this,” said GUBOH spokesman Basil Miller.
“Sispar has also been installing public lighting at the south harbour over the past two weeks. We hope this means the harbour will open to the public shorlty, and urge Sispar to speed up work to ensure this while there is still a prospect of some good weather,” he added.
“Sispar also committed to making substantial improvements to the final stretch of the Cliff Walk near Greystones at that meeting,” he said, “and we hope that the rapid progress in the last three weeks will be followed up by equally rapid action on this important work.
“The stretch from the north beach to the harbour has come in for a lot of criticism due to the unsightly fencing and the debris left there when work on the residential element of the development was halted last winter.”
Miller said he was very encouraged by Sispar’s response to the points raised by GUBOH and others at the HLC meeting in September, and expressed the hope that outstanding issues can be dealt with in a forward-looking spirit.
“Sispar say they cannot open the North Pier and they have fenced off areas of the South Pier which we believe should be open to the public. They have concerns about how to safely maintain these areas and to protect their commercial interests and we will be discussing these concerns with them at the HLC in the coming months to achieve a resolution.”
ENDS
Update: EIS now online here
GREYSTONES, 6 Oct 2011— The ‘Give Us Back Our Harbour’ group welcomes the fact that Sispar today at the harbour from the North Beach Road as far as the old club compounds.
Sispar also removed the old site office, which GUBOH had described as a ‘decrepit carbuncle’, from its position opposite the Beach House and replaced it with a new harbourmaster’s office located just north of the public slipway.
“These were demands made by GUBOH, the harbour residents, and Greystones Chamber at the Harbour Liaison Committee meeting on September 13 last. It is very gratifying to see Sispar deliver so quickly on their agreement to do this,” said GUBOH spokesman Basil Miller.
“Sispar has also been installing public lighting at the south harbour over the past two weeks. We hope this means the harbour will open to the public shorlty, and urge Sispar to speed up work to ensure this while there is still a prospect of some good weather,” he added.
“Sispar also committed to making substantial improvements to the final stretch of the Cliff Walk near Greystones at that meeting,” he said, “and we hope that the rapid progress in the last three weeks will be followed up by equally rapid action on this important work.
“The stretch from the north beach to the harbour has come in for a lot of criticism due to the unsightly fencing and the debris left there when work on the residential element of the development was halted last winter.”
Miller said he was very encouraged by Sispar’s response to the points raised by GUBOH and others at the HLC meeting in September, and expressed the hope that outstanding issues can be dealt with in a forward-looking spirit.
“Sispar say they cannot open the North Pier and they have fenced off areas of the South Pier which we believe should be open to the public. They have concerns about how to safely maintain these areas and to protect their commercial interests and we will be discussing these concerns with them at the HLC in the coming months to achieve a resolution.”
ENDS
Update: EIS now online here
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