Rum_Pirate
Well-Known Member
Just received this:
January 2010
Dear Rudyard Sailability supporter,
Re: Rudyard Sailability’s bid to build a boat store to safeguard its future
First may I wish you a Happy New Year and thank you again for your support for Rudyard Sailability.
I am writing just to update you on the latest developments in Rudyard Sailability’s bid to build a new boat store at the Dam Head of Rudyard Lake.
Despite the Government inspector finding for Rudyard Sailability on every point at the Public Planning Enquiry in February 2009, the building of the boat store is still being blocked by Rudyard Lake Ltd, which holds a licence from British Waterways over the land where the building would be erected.
To try and shift the logjam, on November 25, 2009 I arranged a meeting with the Waterways Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies. He met in Parliament with myself and fellow trustees Anne Morris and Dennis Priebe. At that meeting, professional mediation was proposed. Sailability was happy to accept that as long as British Waterways, owners of the lake, is involved.
But time is now very short because, from mid February, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council may demolish the present boat shed used by Rudyard Sailability, rendering this life enhancing charity homeless.
In view of this urgency, I asked British Waterways Chief Executive Robin Evans to meet me in my Westminster office on December 10, 2009 to make sure he was fully aware of all the issues. We had a good meeting and it is clear that he personally has much admiration for Rudyard Sailability and its work.
Since then, Julie Sharman, of British Waterways, has been in contact with both Sailability and Rudyard Lake Ltd to agree on an independent professionally trained mediator. Each organisation will have to submit evidence to the mediator and present its case in the presence of the other party. The mediator will then talk to each organisation separately. The whole process takes just one day because each organisation has to field a team which can speak definitively for its side.
I hope we will soon have a date for mediation and that, at last, we can agree a way forward which will allow Rudyard Sailability to carry on its award winning activities.
Charlotte Atkins
MP for Staffordshire Moorlands
Rudyard Sailability Trustee
January 2010
Dear Rudyard Sailability supporter,
Re: Rudyard Sailability’s bid to build a boat store to safeguard its future
First may I wish you a Happy New Year and thank you again for your support for Rudyard Sailability.
I am writing just to update you on the latest developments in Rudyard Sailability’s bid to build a new boat store at the Dam Head of Rudyard Lake.
Despite the Government inspector finding for Rudyard Sailability on every point at the Public Planning Enquiry in February 2009, the building of the boat store is still being blocked by Rudyard Lake Ltd, which holds a licence from British Waterways over the land where the building would be erected.
To try and shift the logjam, on November 25, 2009 I arranged a meeting with the Waterways Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies. He met in Parliament with myself and fellow trustees Anne Morris and Dennis Priebe. At that meeting, professional mediation was proposed. Sailability was happy to accept that as long as British Waterways, owners of the lake, is involved.
But time is now very short because, from mid February, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council may demolish the present boat shed used by Rudyard Sailability, rendering this life enhancing charity homeless.
In view of this urgency, I asked British Waterways Chief Executive Robin Evans to meet me in my Westminster office on December 10, 2009 to make sure he was fully aware of all the issues. We had a good meeting and it is clear that he personally has much admiration for Rudyard Sailability and its work.
Since then, Julie Sharman, of British Waterways, has been in contact with both Sailability and Rudyard Lake Ltd to agree on an independent professionally trained mediator. Each organisation will have to submit evidence to the mediator and present its case in the presence of the other party. The mediator will then talk to each organisation separately. The whole process takes just one day because each organisation has to field a team which can speak definitively for its side.
I hope we will soon have a date for mediation and that, at last, we can agree a way forward which will allow Rudyard Sailability to carry on its award winning activities.
Charlotte Atkins
MP for Staffordshire Moorlands
Rudyard Sailability Trustee
