Harbour Authority bars Trustees from parts of the harbour : In pursuit of our aims and objectives we monitor the development at the Duver. We work to see it delivered lawfully, with minimum financial and environmental damage to the Harbour. We can see no reason to object, as achieving these aims would be advantageous to the Statutory Harbour Authority. However, in … [Read more...] about December update
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November member update
Dear Members Letter to the Minister The Trustees received no response from the Statutory Harbour Authority (SHA) when asked to explain or rectify the apparently wrongful allocation of £1.75M. Accordingly, the Trustees have written to the Secretary of State for Transport (link here) with the aim of seeing funds recovered. If wrongfully extracted funds are not … [Read more...] about November member update
Trustees respond to recent Harbour Advisory Group Minutes
BHT try to avoid rising to misinformation unless it is significantly misleading or damaging to the harbour commercially or environmentally. In the case of statements by Mr Thorpe in the recent BHAG minutes we believe some correction and expansion is needed. Within this response some evidence is provided in links. The Minutes state ( bold text) : “We [ MT and FT] have … [Read more...] about Trustees respond to recent Harbour Advisory Group Minutes
Member update late September
Dear Members In this note we update on several issues: Should BHT step aside? BHT’s trustees had assumed that any independent 'community interest group’ bidding for the harbour might feel the need to isolate itself from BHT for pragmatic reasons. We have not been able to establish whether one actually exists. In a recent Facebook post Mr … [Read more...] about Member update late September
Dredging starts
Good news. Dredging in channel inside the harbour has started. This dredger agitates the silt on the sea bed and up into the water column. It then relies on the free energy of the ebb flow remove it. This method has worked well in Yarmouth. Lets hope it works as well here. We understand the idea is to create linear flows between the otherwise silt gathering sink holes (created … [Read more...] about Dredging starts