Premier - the Ryanair of marinas

[Seajet]

I can't help thinking that wall around Brighton Marina was put there for a reason ( beside oyster farming, did that idea ever work ? ) - they seem determined to bu**er what started out as a good marina, then filled in the inside bit and it's been downhill from there...

There are / were rumours of Port Solent going the same way, being filled in & built on, with a very interested residents association trying to oppose it / get the truth, I truly hope that development never happens.

As for developing Chichester Marina with residential properties, I can imagine some phillistine vandal of a developer salivating over the idea, as long as they don't live near that lovely relatively unspoilt spot.

Councils are supposed to earn their money opposing such schemes, I'm sure the old boy network doesn't apply and no councillor will gain so much as 1 penny.

 

[Moonshining]

As for developing Chichester Marina with residential properties, I can imagine some phillistine vandal of a developer salivating over the idea, as long as they don't live near that lovely relatively unspoilt spot.

Looking at the Chichester council website, permission has been granted to refurbish the Spinnaker building and turn it entirely over to residential use. I guess it's hard for the council to refuse, since the first floor has always been residential. It doesn't look like there have been any new plans submitted for the Opal building.

 

[AuntyRinum]

I can't help thinking that wall around Brighton Marina was put there for a reason ( beside oyster farming, did that idea ever work ? ) - they seem determined to bu**er what started out as a good marina, then filled in the inside bit and it's been downhill from there...

There are / were rumours of Port Solent going the same way, being filled in & built on, with a very interested residents association trying to oppose it / get the truth, I truly hope that development never happens.

As for developing Chichester Marina with residential properties, I can imagine some phillistine vandal of a developer salivating over the idea, as long as they don't live near that lovely relatively unspoilt spot.

Councils are supposed to earn their money opposing such schemes, I'm sure the old boy network doesn't apply and no councillor will gain so much as 1 penny.

Lobster farming. There was no evidence of it actually happened in all the years I moored there.

 

[Concerto]

When Brighton Marina first opened they kept crabs inside some of the concrete cassons. I remember chatting with one of the fishermen and he showed me inside one of the cassons on the eastern arm. There were hundreds of mainly spider crabs. However it was not a financial success as the crabs started attacking and eating each other.