Is the East Coast becoming more like the South Coast?

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I've been sailing from here for the last 15 years and everyone just seemed to get along, sailors, trawlermen, MOBO'ers and landlubbers.

Recently I've heard of a few instances which seems to be changing all that. A couple of examples centre on a new riverside housing development.

Firstly houseowners have complained to the coucil about a pontoon being installed in the river. A pontoon I understand that has both the permission of the local Sailing club & the harbourmaster.

Secondly - houseowners on the same development complained about "tatty" trawlers moored next to the development. The trawlers have always moored there and the village was known as a fishing village (even advertised as one) before these developments were built?

I have heard of this happening in other parts of the country - but never here. Is it symptomatic of Britain or the 21st Century generally?
 
I can't remember the exact details, but there was a new hosuing development built in the countryside, and after they were bought, and the owners settled in, they then started to complain about the smell from a local farm which had been there since time immemorial. Alright living in the country as long as you don't have to put up with the smell of the country.
bloody laughable /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
Agreed - there was the famous case down here in Chi harbour of the Coombes Boatyard: a traditional yard that had been established for a great many years. New neighbours moved in next door, and started complaining about the 'noise' of boatbuilding: power tools etc. They obtained various abatement orders which eventually forced the yard in to closure.

Its a crazy world.
 
Exactly the same at our local pub in Barnes. The long standing jazz pub (the Bulls Head) was surrounded by a cop shop. When TB et al decided the police were safer removed from where they might be needed the station was converted into expensive flats WITH THE ADJACENCY OF THE BULLS HEAD AS A SELLING POINT. Some woman moves in and within 6 months takes out an injunction over the noise. Eventually after a high profile campaign the Brewery, but also the Publican, have had to spend a fortune sound proofing the music room.
And now she is taking her profit and moving on........
Address supplied if anyone feels like putting a **** thru her letterbox
 
At a neighbourhood watch type meeting recently I heard an owner of a flat overlooking the harbour (its selling point ) complainng about the noise of working coasters unloading their cargoes of ballast - whadya know!
 
Some people have such shallow lives that they get their kicks from trying to sanitise everything.
A couple of tree huggers moved into the village where I live and bought a house on the long on boundary of the village cricket pitch. They must have known that their fence bordered the outfield.

After the first match when they had a cricket ball land in the pond, they started legal action.
Cost the parish council £30,000 to defend. Then council had to erect the most awful fence to stop stray balls (more expense). After which the couple sold up and moved on to another village where, within weeks, they had started another action because of the noise of church bells. apparently they had a track record of moving and complaining.
Sad bar stewards.
 
So it looks like it's a symptom of the nanny state in the 21st Century then.

We must as a nation realise what's going on - or maybe the majority like it that way.
 
I thought there was a legal principle which stated you could not move into a nuisance? i.e if the 'nuisance' was already there when you bought the house, and was reasonable that you would have known about it , then tough. I can very much understand people complaining if they bought a property and then something changed, - a pub started to have late night opening, or a new factory was built or something, but not if it was always there.
I'm not sure that this is a new phenomena though, some 25 years ago when I was a little nipper I remember repeatedly getting abuse when I went to get my football from a particular persons garden. As their house backed onto the local football pitch and rec. ground, I would have thought that this eventuality would have been reasonably obvious when they bought the house!
 
Brightlingsea?

I have not sailed there for a couple of years but the signs were not looking good ....

I'd say it's a mix of the way things are going in this century, and deliberate government policy to develop (ie ruin) the south east?
 
Shame.

One of the last of the honest places, but when the Tendring Distict Council wimped out over the James and Stone shipyard, the writing was on the wall.

It was better when the Anchor was still a pub.

Mind you, the harbour master & co are still OK.
 
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Shame.

One of the last of the honest places, but when the Tendring Distict Council wimped out over the James and Stone shipyard, the writing was on the wall.

It was better when the Anchor was still a pub.

Mind you, the harbour master & co are still OK.

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Wot about the Bradwell Green Man now its been "Opened-up" /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
Essex..... an example to us all of the english idyll.

"I'd say it's a mix of the way things are going in this century, and deliberate government policy to develop (ie ruin) the south east?" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Suspect Ian was referring to my local patch of mud further up the Colne...Mind you, once the next development get's going, they'll probably complain about the sails infringing on the view! T'was ever thus...Problem is, that without the Shipyard and Wharf, there is very little local employment. Land is sold off for development and a working village with a proud maritime history, becomes a dormitory for the commuters.
 
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