Mumbles Pier and Headland Development
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Article dated 2018 and there have been futher developments -
Save Mumbles Pier and Headland
NEW Mumbles Foreshore and Headland Development
All sides want to save
the Grade II listed Mumbles Pier,
for it to be repaired and its future secured.
The Pier, Lighthouse and Mumbles Village nestled within the sweep of the bay, is one of our biggest tourist attractions and is of huge value to the local economy
The Gower Society said, ‘Swansea has three iconic views;
Worm's Head, Three Cliffs and Mumbles Head’.
The planned restoration of the Pier should not be used as justification for this foreshore development, which will highly urbanise this important and historical area.
The massive Headland building:
· Will highly urbanise this important and historic area and would do little for the local economy.
· Will block the view of the Lighthouse from Mumbles, a view beloved by the people of Mumbles and used to market Swansea Bay to the world.
· And will be over five storeys high, the same height as the Middle Island. It is on the border of the Gower Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
There is nothing in this building scheme which guarantees the ongoing maintenance of the Pier.
The Pier should have been protected within a Trust, which could make an application for a grant to CADW and the Heritage Lottery.
Other Piers have received generous grants for repair work and their ongoing maintenance assured.
Anybody lucky enough to have this iconic view from all around Swansea Bay, counts themselves blessed and we must protect it for future generations.
Mumbles Pier Development
Is it true that the development of apartments
will now reach the Knab Rock car park?
On the left of the map above it says-
'Potential future extension of boardwalk towards Knab Rock and further Residential Apartments'.
The planned development at Mumbles Pier,
will make dramatic changes to this historic and iconic landscape.
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The planned development at Mumbles Pier, will make dramatic changes to be made to this historic and iconic landscape and seascape.
THE FUTURE OF THE PIER
LATEST-July 2018
Mr Bollom for AMECO, reported to several visitors at a project exibit on 19th July 2018, that a grant had been refused and that 'CADW had replied by letter some time ago, saying that 'the Pier does not have any Historical value.' Mr Bollom agreed to show me a copy of the letter, 'When it could be found in the office.'
AMECO has not successfully applied for any grants to restore the pier as a separate project. There was a recommendation in Savills Environmental Statement to apply for such grants in 2010.
It will take three years to complete any building project, possibly 2021, if contracts are awarded soon.
Around eight years ago, work to repair the pier could have been done and completed, if a successful application had been made then.
It is probable that ten years will have passed before building work even commences, which it is promised will create funds to repair the pier. If this work was considered urgent, then the preservation of the pier would have been considered of greater importance and access to grant money explored.
ORIGINAL PLANS
It has been many years since the original Planning Application was first made to Swansea City Council by AMECO, in 2010. In which the owners of Mumbles Pier, applied to build 28 flats on the current sea-front car-park and a hotel on the site of Cinderella’s Nightclub, overlooking the Mumbles Lighthouse. This application was pased.
FUTURE PARKING
Families, elderly and the disabled would suffer great inconvenience, as the nearest car parking for visitors to the Pier would require either a tortuous walk down steep steps from the one at Bracelet Bay, or a long trek from that at Knab Rock.
There may be 61 car parking spaces withing the development, if the plans are not changed yet again.
THE CHANGES
Everything about the scheme has now changed, as AMECO have had permission to alter their original proposals by increasing the number of flats on the foreshore site.
In July 2018, this figure again changed, as the plans now claim some apparments have been re-designed to be part of a hotel. We shall wait to see how the situation develops, as this may change again later.
This iconic view is under threat
It is easy to compare the flats with the TWO storey high Inshore Lifeboat Station, as the flats will be built beyond. With FIVE floors and a 2 metre base, they would look higher than the lamppost shown in the photo..
THE FORESHORE FLATS
The first 30 flats on the foreshore car-park, are three storeys high, with a garage below, which totals FOUR floors, have pitched roofs and are therefore more than double the height of the Inshore Lifeboat Station and the Pavilion either side.
It is also planned to create additional space for the foreshore flats, by bringing them forward from the cliff face and to construct a new foreshore car parking and boardwalk space on a jetty type construction,ten metres out into the bay, (from the Inshore Lifeboat Station to the Pavilion). This new part of the project will mean building on a very sensitive tidal zone, next to a SSSI.
The Pier beach is overlooked by the site of the second 28 flats
Planned to be four storeys high, this block will be built above a restaurant and partly facing the Lighthouse and the pier. Final plans are undecided.
THE HEADLAND BLOCK
The second block is planned to be built on the site of the old Cinderella's Nightclub, overlooking Mumbles Lighthouse and beach. This is planned to be four storeys high and will be built above a restaurant, meaning in fact FIVE floors altogether. This block of flats does not have integrated secure car parking, but has reserved spaces at the 'Big Apple' on Mumbles Head.
The photograph published in the Evening Post does not indicate the size of the two blocks of flats within their surroundings. In fact, the second black of 28 flats, facing the Lighthouse is hardly mentioned in the EP report, published on March 1, 2018.
It is planned to build 30 apartments on the site of the old train station
The sea wall will be moved out ten metres and the land raised two metres to protect the thirty new apartments from flooding. This view cannot be photographed today, due to the vegetation which has grown up. Perhaps, we can find someone with a drone to complete the comparison.
Another view of the old Station at the pier
Now the building site is a car-park
Mumbles Pier
Archive
Application Summary
July 2018
NEW- Ref. number: 2018/0916/RES
Alternative Reference: PP-06903143
Address
Land At Mumbles Headland, Pavilion And Foreshore Mumbles Road Mumbles Swansea SA3 4EN
Proposal
Comprehensive re-development of land at Mumbles Headland and Foreshore/Coastal Strip comprising: Headland Building (up to 5 storeys) to accommodate a range of retail / food and drink / gallery (Classes A1/A3/D1) at ground and first floor with the upper floors utilised for hotel/visitor accommodation (Class C1) - 31 no hotel rooms & 11 no. serviced apartments; Coastal Strip Building (up to 4 storeys) to accommodate 26 Residential apartments (Class C3) with 32 under-croft car parking spaces; alterations and refurbishment works to existing Pavilion Building to accommodate A1/A3 retail and food and drink uses & amusement arcade at ground floor with function room at first floor (Class D1); new public realm incorporating new pedestrian boardwalk and provision of 61 no. public car parking spaces and retention of headland car parking (32 no spaces for hotel/staff); and associated works - Reserved Matters Approval - Details of Appearance, Landscaping, Scale and Layout pursuant to Conditions 1, 3, 4, 7, 9 & 16 of Section 73 outline permission 2017/2641/S73 (which varied the Sec73 permission under ref: 2014/1946 which previously varied the original outline planning permission under ref:2010/1451)
Planning search page-
https://www.swansea.gov.uk/planningsearch
NEW- Ref. number: 2018/0916/RES
Alternative Reference: PP-06903143