Fire at Iron Wharf, Faversham destroys 8 boats

No big surprise, and it's not the first time either...

Commiserations to those who lost their boats and sheds etc.
 
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I think most insurance companies cover items destroyed by arson, provided it isn't the policyholder that did it.......
 
tony_lavelle said:
As someone has commented on the kentonline.co.uk website, the fire could be very convenient for housing developers.
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Yes it's a thought... from a developer's point of view, Iron Wharf consists of prime real estate with river frontage, littered with manky fire-hazard old boats...
(and the local council has previous for allowing historic wharves to vanish under hideous new apartments..)

If, after a succession of fires, the authorities ordered the yard to modernise (eg space the boats further apart, provide proper lighting, tidy up all the highly inflammable sheds, random crap and derelict vehicles lying about) then the yard owners might 'find it uneconomic' and hey presto, housing estate!
 
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Humm yes the Yard has direct access from the town by roadway of sorts and if one looks at the development of numerous housing over that whole area it must be attractive to developer plus council. Did the fire have a particular aroma to it ?
 
tony_lavelle said:
As someone has commented on the kentonline.co.uk website, the fire could be very convenient for housing developers.
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When the last recession bit an astonishing number of properties under development in Glasgow "went on fire", as we say up here. Worries about plummeting profits can be very distracting to blowtorch operators, it seems ...


(relevant bit is 1m67s in)
 
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