Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject: St Osyth residents hopes dashed for rebuilding home
A chalet which was demolished without its owner’s consent cannot be rebuilt.
Tendring Council has refused plans for a new building at Colne Way in Point Clear Bay, St Osyth.
Applicant, Mr A Horn, had bought a chalet there in January last year as a holiday home for his family, and in particular his disabled son.
In June, planning permission to extend the building was granted, and work was started.
But Mr Horn's agent, Mr Quilter, told a meeting of the development control committee that the appointed builder demolished the chalet instead of extending it.
A 3.5m section of the rear wall which was left at the site was later destroyed by strong winds, leaving nothing remaining.
As a result, Mr Horn applied for a new chalet of the same scale and design as the previous building.
However, officers advised councillors that the site was in flood zone three, an area of high risk.
Members therefore voted to go with the officers' recommendation to refuse the proposals.
Planning portfolio holder, Iris Johnson (T1, Hamford), said: “I have got sympathy for the applicant, particularly if he's got a disabled son.
“But we have a duty of care to residents, and this just isn't an appropriate place to rebuild this chalet.”
This makes me so mad sometimes.
Yet if they wanted to build flats ,then ,that would probably get approval.
I do know that for years people were only allowed to stay in various chalets during the summer months ,the reason then was that the drainage would not cope ,then the usual ,Flood reasons ect. However ,re the Flooding problem ,in 1953 many homes did not have t.v or phones and would not be aware of any flood warnings ,I think we have moved on since then .
I suspect there may be more to this case than meets the eye ,but do think a more amicable arrangement should have happened here.
Today the first setting up of our beach repleneshment has started in Jaywick,
but when wasPoint Clears beach recharged to bring it up to even our 1999 beach replendishments..
We have "new" flats that heve been built with ground floor frighteningly below sea levels, when you look at the seaward side at high tides...
The news isn't all bad. The same council has given planning permission for a pizza outlet in Jackson Road even though it goes against planning guidelines. Apparently it will benefit the town. Like we really need a fast food outlet.
I would forgive them some of their eccentricities if they just appeared to be a little even-handed
Years ago a chap whom I had acquaintance of was refused a rebuild so he replaced each wall piece meal and invited the planning department to oversee such.
This guy may have been able to rebuild his home like that if he had used his noddle.
Reapply for a home on stilts with parking underneath he ought to get planning for that.
The trouble is, this guy just may have been using his noddle amenity, and our fierce winds may have just blown his ideas away-no pun intended.
We have on our seafront one of the very simular problems.
A very deralict property was to be rebuilt.
its 1 and a bit walls still stand, and have been like that for a while.
The reason was the groundwork was placed bigger than planned, and so was halted as-was....
Do you remember the Sainsbury's disaster at Tollgate when the new build supermarket got blown down no one thought (amazingly) to put in any braces.
As it happened, i just remembered that, not sure when though, but will look..
What made me chuckle was the braces part........well,
as i raced lots of full on contact motor sports
in stock cars and bangers
(not allowed to brace up bangers-- -BUT)
I had to weld bracing points at every joint / length and cross brace on the chassis.
I used 2 x 2 inch box section steel for the main sections, with just 1 x 1 inch for other less heavy duty built parts....
Before i moved to Jaywick, my nice house in north romford had its original staircase in wood that had been in since pre war,
and it was wearing loose after all that time...
I`m not much good at woodwork, but good at building solid chassis, so i cross braced my stairs in 2 x 2 wood....... ...
Never even groaned when i walked up and down the stairs again ever...
The land area we now know as St. Osyth has probably suffered with flooding since the end of the last ice age. A great deal of the land edging the Parish is composed of salt marsh and mud flats, which have been a natural flood plain for centuries. As development has taken place so properties have been built in these flood plains without much thought to what might happen if the sea rose abnormally.
Such an event occurred January 31st - February 1st 1953, the worst weather event of the last century, when a combination of predicted high tide with a deep low pressure area moving south east from Iceland into the north sea and a storm surge, whipped up over ten feet higher than normal by a north westerly hurricane force wind hit the coast, first Scotland then of eastern England. Over 1000 miles of coastline was flooded, over 30,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes and 307 people lost their lives. In Essex alone nearly 50,000 acres of land were flooded and 113 people died.
Jaywick, which had over 1,700 chalet bungalows, of which over 200 were thought to be occupied, was worst hit. The sea wall was broken in 22 places along our bank of the Colne Estuary and water swept around across St. Osyth marches to the back of Jaywick, a direction from which water was not expected, only to be made worse by yet more breaks in the bank along St. Osyth Beach. 35 people were drowned in Jaywick. In Point Clear the two people who ran the grocery store in the Bay were also tragically drowned, after spending time trying to save the stock in their shop before moving to safety.
As a Jaywick resident, i cannot belive so little is mentioned about the very simular chalet style bungalows that are predominent in St. Osyth / Point Clear
as they are so identical in the fact of being built so close to the sea, and at the same or lower levels as the Grasslands and Village areas of Jaywick.
Most of the bungalows and houses in Brooklands ground being much higher to start with........thankfully..
"Most of the bungalows and houses in Brooklands ground being much higher to start with........thankfully.."
Of which the new released flood study shows Brooklands being in a better position if ever it floods again.
The Pitt review showed we have (and anyone who stands and looks from our newest road Lotus Way/Midway) The Brooklands estate IS on higher ground, much higher than Grasslands and the Village areas, Meadow Way and Crossways rain drenched and flooded the other week, while dear old Brooklands standing proud while out of harms way...
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