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 recovered, the…
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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…
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Member update late September
Dear Members In this note we update on several issues: Should BHT step aside? The harbour sale, and Mr Thorpe excluding BHT as potential buyers. Nothing we do…
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Dredging starts
Good news. Dredging in channel inside the harbour has started. This dredger agitates the silt on the sea bed and up into…
A new dawn for Bembridge Harbour?
Dear Members Following confirmation from Malcolm Thorpe that the “harbour businesses” will be offered for sale, we consider the implications of this news. Please…
Harbour to be offered for sale
After an Anonymous posting on the Bembridge Community Noticeboard that said that the Harbour was for sale. Mike Samuelson (acting chair of…