This update to Bembridge Harbour Trust members covers three main issues 1 Ministry of Transport to investigate financial issues. 2 Harbour publicly advertised for sale, but with no price. 3 Contractors who built harbour offices not fully paid, contributing to their liquidation. These issues are explained further : 1 Ministry of Transport will investigate … [Read more...] about Member update March 2025
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December update
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
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
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
BHT Judicial Review decision issued 18th May 2023
BHT’s Trustees are disappointed by this decision, not only by the Judge’s findings on the limited questions in front of her (this case was solely about loans made by the harbour authority, the provision of security by the harbour authority to cover other companies' borrowings and the use of revenues including profits to fund loans in the year to March 2020) … [Read more...] about BHT Judicial Review decision issued 18th May 2023