Defending the biggest white elephant ever

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http://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/harbour-port-news/maritime_boss_urges_community_to_get_behind_great_yarmouth_port_1_1829510

It would appear that someone somewhere must have made a huge sum of money from this huge waste of money, I''m wondering who?

It was touted as a RO RO ferry terminal - it has never had anyone interested in running such an operation as far as I am aware.

It was supposed to be a container port - with no road or rail links this was never going to be a starter. I''m pretty sure there hasn''t been one container unloaded here.

So now it is fighting to be a port to help the offshore energy industry - with so far no one using it.

So with no chance of this ever being a  major employer why was it built, where did the money come from and why?

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You can''t defend the indefensible.

Taxpayers money to the tune of £18m was invested.

The two £7m cranes stood idle for two years and were then shipped out to Venice port without lifting anything in anger.

The outer harbour fees are expensive compared to facilities on the Yare quayside.

The outer harbour suffers badly from waves even on calm days.

To say it has been a waste of money would be a vast understatement.

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Maybe its got something to do with Freemasons, they can''t get anything right if its not landing in their pockets.Wrongly designed harbour- nobody got reprimanded nobody took the blame for it,amateurs.18 million given with a smile- to rogues who couldn''t fasten their zips if you told them how to do it.Gt. Yarmouth has been damaged by these extracurricular loyalties and not a single cllr. has taken leave for this shambles.Just as the incinerator, it will be council taxpayers who pay for their white elephants, indeed we should start a Norfolk Zoo for white elephants, all we need to do is feed them our taxes and hey presto, another tourist attraction.The harbour should be renamed the Ann Steward harbour, have a Plant pier and a jetty that has a different name every day, just as the chameleons that ruined the harbour idea and made no effort to push the ferry, which had various interested companies wanting to do it.Here is a letter from GYHeritage and scrutiny group to Mr. Watson. The whole inquiry was set out to save the smudged reputation of involved cllr.s and shifters.

3^rd April 2013

 

Dear Mr Watson.

 

 

Re Great Yarmouth Harbour

Revision Order Ref: DPI/U2615/10/20

 

Re the Open files/reports

embargoed for six years.

For the attention of Mr. Lloyd Rodgers (Inspector)

 

In response to the Inspectors decision on our request to

have sight of the deal made days prior to signing contracts on the 25^th

of May 2007.

 

The Inspector states our request “relate only to the

view of GYSHG”, this is correct, but one must realise our group is, over

these five years is made up by the majority of the Boroughs Ratepayers.

We have been asking for a public inquiry into why our £20

million Grant money did not produce what was sold to the Ratepayers, as shown

in the next paragraph from the Project Brief.

 

 

How can we be satisfied with the Marine Management

Organisation’s blinked format for the fourth-coming Public Inquiry when

every piece of correspondence seems to be favouring the GYPC?

Not criticizing the Inspector, though on reading his response

it seems the GYPC may not be chairing the Public Inquiry, the GYPC does seem to

be guiding and steering its progress as every-one’s objection is

ridiculed and treated as irrelevant.

 

If there were not questions to be asked into the deals that

were made in May 2007, then in 2010 the GYPC would have received no real

objections. But the following documents that Ratepayers were so keenly in

agreement with, the Project Brief, the Advert, and the 1986 Great Yarmouth

Outer Harbour Act were in the last days before contracts were signed, were

discarded and kicked into touch.

 

And now the GYPC and the GYPA expects all and sundry to

forget what did not take place, and to agree to the GYPC being made the Harbour

Authority. The MMO have been very much aware since 2008 of the depth of feeling

at the loss the Local Community has suffered because the Project Brief and 1986

Act were ignored and the outer harbour not built as the ratepayer’s paid

for.

 

 

A quote from the Inspectors

response “I

note that GYPC view the matter of ‘suitability’ as irrelevant to

the making of the order”.

If there is such a feeling of loss of what was to be,

“suitability” is not irrelevant.

·        The Primary Rational

has not been met.

·        The Outer Harbour is

not fit for purpose.

·        No employment has been

made because of the Outer Harbour, (though established companies in the River

Port are doing well, not the product of the GYPC)

·        

The guide given to the Inspector will continue the cover-up by the MMO

over our complaints of alleged “selling sand without a licence”,

and the alleged “disposal of dredged spoil with-out a licence”.

 

Also from the Inspectors

response from the GYPC’s viewpoint of the section 14 subsection 2b:-

(in the

interests of securing the improvement, maintenance or management of the harbour

in an efficient and economical manner or of facilitating the efficient and

economic transport of goods or passengers by sea or in the interests of the

recreational use of sea-going ships).

 

The GYPC has had six years to “improve, maintain, be

efficient” in the six years these requirements of section 14 subsection

2b have not been carried out at all, many ships had to leave the outer harbour

for the safety of the open sea, economically the tariffs were many times higher

than other ports, efficient is not a word that can be used as there are so many

failed attempts at various business ventures. So how can suitability be

irrelevant now?

 

The MMO and the Inspector may view this response as

irrelevant to the GYPC being made Harbour Authority; we have lived through six

years where every question that we have asked of GYPA, GYBC and NCC has not

been truthfully replied to. We have had the MMO not addressing our complaints

just taking the GYPC’s answers as gospel. Really on the strength of these

past years, we cannot have much enthusiasm that the Public Inquiry will answer

any of our questions, the MMO to dispel any continuation of Ratepayers asking

for details of why the Port is in the mess it is has agreed to a Public Inquiry

confining it to an HRO. What price democracy.

 

Attached is the Inspectors response to our request to see

the leases and files.

 

John L Cooper

The Greater Yarmouth Heritage & Scrutiny Group

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So what are the plans of the various parties to rectify the badly designed harbour? What of the long grass promises of a fast ferry service?Are the split loyalists in Gt. Yarmouth now recruiting new blood into their secret club. What will they have to do to be accepted?here is a poem that might describe the Gt. Yarmouth selection panel in detail

http://phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/goat_riding_tricycle.htm

When Father Rode the Goat

Author Unknown

The house is full of arcana, and mystery profound;

We do not dare to run about or make the slightest sound.

We leave the big piano shut and do not strike a note;

the doctor’s been here seven times since father rode the goat.

He joined the lodge a week ago; Got in at 4:00 a.m. —-

And sixteen brethren brought him home, though he says that he brought them.

His wrist was sprained and one big rip had rent his Sunday coat —-

There must have been a lively time when father rode the goat.

He’s resting on the couch today! And practicing his signs —-

The hailing signal, the working grip, and other monkeyshines;

He mutters passwords ‘neath his breath, And other things he’ll quote —-

They surely had an evening’s work when father rode the goat.

He has a gorgeous uniform, all gold and red and blue —-

A hat with plumes and yellow braid, And golden badges too.

But, somehow, when we mention it, he wears a look so grim;

we wonder if he rode the goat —- or if the goat rode him!

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Goodness me. I often pass by the monolithic temple in Covent Garden.Best place to get a taxi after visitin'' the ballet,"donchaknow"