| Subject |
MP calls for halt to plans for Point House Café
development
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| Ref |
PR/06-165 |
| Date |
Tuesday 5th December
2006 |
Tobias Ellwood has asked Bournemouth Borough Council to listen
carefully to the 865 residents who have written objecting to proposals
to replace the Point House Café with a four storey block
of flats.
The Point House Café, on the Harbour Road in Southbourne,
is one of a series of amenities situated along the seafront and
has been much loved by locals and visitors to the area since it
opened in the 1960s. However developers have plans to bulldoze the
café and replace it with a multi-storey block of flats with
underground parking.
Indeed, the existing building may be pulled down before the Council
considers the application.
The shadow that hangs over the Point House Cafe is reflective of
the dark cloud of overdevelopment that now sits over Bournemouth.
Over 1,000 dwellings a year are built with little consideration
to the pressure this puts on our infrastructure or the changing
character of our town.
Tobias has received hundreds of letters from constituents in support
of his campaign against overdevelopment in Bournemouth and will
be handing in a petition to the Town Hall, the South West Regional
Assembly and the Government.
Tobias said:
"Over 800 people have taken the time to object to a single
planning application. The Council needs to listen. This café
is a valuable community facility which has served local people and
visitors. The coastline is Bournemouth's biggest asset and should
be nurtured. Littering it with multi-storey buildings will ruin
our best feature and the greatest selling point of our town."
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