New marina at Walton on the naze

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I have just stumbled across a planning application on Tendring Council's website for the redevelopment of Walton mere to include flats , shops , old folks home and a 350 berth marina ! , with the recent thread regarding access to the backwaters I think it's going to get mighty crowded around there before long :eek: , does anyone know anymore about this ?
 
NOTICE UNDER ARTICLE 13(3) OF APPLICATION FOR
PLANNING PERMISSION ACCOMPANIED BY AN
ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT
Proposed development at Walton Mere, Mill Lane, Walton-on-the-Naze.

I give notice that Silverbrook Estates Ltd, 7 Hill Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 1EF is applying to Tendring District Council for outline planning permission for up to 129 dwellings, including 25 retirement flats (C3); a 60-bed care home (C2); a health centre (800 sq m) (D1); a 5,300 sq m (gross) foodstore (A1); a petrol filling station, kiosk and car wash (sui generis); 500 sq m of additional retail and commercial units (A1-A4); a 350-berth yacht haven (sui generis), including pontoons, moorings and tidal lock; strategic landscaping and tree planting; new public squares and quaysides; associated infrastructure, including new and improved roads, a pedestrian footpath, services, utilities, lighting, car parking and drainage systems for foul and surface water, including Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS); other engineering works, including dredging of the Mere, land raising to form development areas, new flood defences and remediation works to bunds around the Mere; and demolition of an existing building and that:?
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I think it is the site of the old boating lake.

To be fair, the town desperately needs something like this to give it a lift as it's dying in it's current state. Perhaps not so good for us sailors though.

I was under the impression that the Titchmarsh family had purchased some, or all of this land a couple of years ago.
 
being closer to the centre of walton would be an advantage compared to titchmarsh although does anyone know how limited the access would be? i've always wanted to try the yacht basin but it looks like you have to get the tides just right.
 
I think it is intended to be a motor-boat park to add glitz to the housing. From what I have heard, the good will of the developers is not to be relied upon. I might be worth looking into their record.
 
millbeach said:
Any news on the marina at Maldon.

Was mentioned last year, but all quite now...
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Maldon-mere has been binned (sadly)...

apparently planning and finanace was a problem (but apart from that it was a goer!!!).
I then read that they were going to do some dredging so you could get to the pontoon / landing stage ealier on the tide (the one which is located just behind the barges).
I then read a week later.... they didn't have the money for that either so they were just going to put some new fenders on the pontoon!!!

I couldn't help but laugh, it went from a rather impressive Maldon-mere... to a new fender on the pontoon in a matter of weeks!! :D

Ian

P.S I don't know if the new fender was ever fitted... so please check before you set sail!!!
 
Re Walton
This has been talked about for years. I was told someone who owned the mere and who did not want it developed died some years ago (5/10?) and ever since there has been talk about redevelopment. It should be good for the town as there are few jobs about and I will be pleased for the residents. They were talking about flushing the channel out with water retained until the tide had gone out, as they used to do years ago before some of the sluices fell into disrepair, like those opposite the yacht club. I will be pleased if this goes ahead.
 
If it does happen, then it will be a VERY sad day for the East Coast!

We have quite enough marinas as it is on our stretch of water, and something like this would be quite detrimental to the area.

As an example of how well a marina based development can take off, just take a look at Cell Block H in Brightlingsea. At inception it was heralded as a vibrant waterside community. What do we have now? A partially completed site as sales have fallen to zero. Virtually all the retail units are empty...the real classic was the one earmarked as a restaurant...with no extraction facility from the kitchens! Someone thought that out really well didn't they! From what I have heard all the empty flats have now been let to DSS tenants, so you may have spent £300,000 on your penthouse flat enjoying views over the Colne whilst alongside you Mr & Mrs Boggins are also having the same benefit and YOU are helping to pay for them.

Guys, if you REALLY want this for Walton, you either really hate the residents of that town or you are all going around blinkered!

If you want our peaceful coast to become a pseudo South Coast then support this...I for one don't!

The developers have destroyed the charm of Brightlingsea, do you HONESTLY want to see the same happen to the Backwaters??
 
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Burnham Bob said:
being closer to the centre of walton would be an advantage compared to titchmarsh although does anyone know how limited the access would be? i've always wanted to try the yacht basin but it looks like you have to get the tides just right.
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Taken my boat in twice (12.8m and 1.9m draft) bit of a bum clencher especially when being 'attacked' by lots of dinghy sailors and the channel markers are very small and dive off at unlikely tangents, but following them slavishly is essential. check with W&F for depths over cill but not a problem - had a tiny gap either side when passing through the gate!
Or you could moor at the entrance to the channel and go in by dinghy, but dont do as I did and ask someone in a rib if the pontoons dry out for long - 'No' he said, 'Hardly at all' We all disappeared up the town, only to return to be greeted with no water and acres of mud, Turns out the bloke I spoke to had never been there before! As the tide wasnt expected back until 1am had to get a B&B in Clacton - bit of an adventure really apart from the drunks returning at 5am to howl at the moon!
 
MrCramp said:
Re Walton
This has been talked about for years. I was told someone who owned the mere and who did not want it developed died some years ago (5/10?) and ever since there has been talk about redevelopment. It should be good for the town as there are few jobs about and I will be pleased for the residents. They were talking about flushing the channel out with water retained until the tide had gone out, as they used to do years ago before some of the sluices fell into disrepair, like those opposite the yacht club. I will be pleased if this goes ahead.
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There are a lot of signs up in Walton NOT supporting the Mere development.
 
davidfox said:
There are a lot of signs up in Walton NOT supporting the Mere development.
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This will be like any other new development, those that overlook it oppose it and those who need jobs will welcome it. Not a bad place to have an old peoples home as it gives them something to look at. Everyone will have their own view. The diabolical development at Brightlingsea should never have got planning approval but that doesn't mean any other marina development is going to be as badly designed as that one.

I still think it will give the town a boost but the road access needs to be carefully work out.
 
MrCramp said:
This will be like any other new development, those that overlook it oppose it and those who need jobs will welcome it. Not a bad place to have an old peoples home as it gives them something to look at. Everyone will have their own view. The diabolical development at Brightlingsea should never have got planning approval but that doesn't mean any other marina development is going to be as badly designed as that one.

I still think it will give the town a boost but the road access needs to be carefully work out.
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I agree with this. The whole coastline from Walton to Brightlingsea is in desperate need of jobs, with a sickeningly high unemployment rate.... so providing the development is done tastefully and with care and consideration for the special environment of the Backwaters, then it would get my support.
 
Cobra said:
so you may have spent £300,000 on your penthouse flat enjoying views over the Colne whilst alongside you Mr & Mrs Scum are also having the same benefit and YOU are helping to pay for them.
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Given that we share the same sailing waters I do hope that you are not as objectionable as that comment would imply. What makes ill or unemployed people or low income families scum?

In any case the error here is not the placement of families on benefits but the building of a development for which there was no market.
 
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