Plans for Port Royal: 'further investigations in respect of flooding and covenants' needed

The consultants at Port Royal have presented their report to the reference group:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultants' final report presented to Reference Group > press release
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultants' final report presented to Reference Group > more in the press

They need a little more time, though, before the final version is ready:

Report on renewal of Port Royal unlikely before next year - Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald

The consultants have specifically highlighted needing to carry out 'further investigations in respect of flooding and covenants'.

THE ISSUES: FLOODING:

As Councillor Marianne Rixson has been saying for some time, the Port Royal and Eastern Town areas have been reclassified as the high-risk Flood Zone 3a:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultation >> "a stitch-up"

The Historic Sidmouth website has also been concerned:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: of sewers and sewerage

A solution would be to build high:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal and the Eastern Town >>> apartments over car parks

But all of this is connected to the Beach Management Plan which is slowly making its way:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal > and the Beach Management Plan > and the Traffic Management Plan

THE ISSUES: COVENANTS

There is the very tricky legal area of covenants in the Eastern Town and Port Royal areas:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: who owns what
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultation > Vision Group report 2012
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >>> of covenants and land-swapping at Port Royal

The Drill Hall has a history:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal 2009: "We are desperate for someone to buy this site and to give us good money for it."
‘They’ve stolen our Drill Hall’ - claim - Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: 'Alternative ideas as to how the Port Royal area of Sidmouth could be redeveloped'

The Ham Green also has quite a history:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >>> and developing the Ham...
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultation >> new campaign as 'scare-mongering'
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultation > an overview of the maps and the options
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