Pembroke Dock Infrastructure - Milford Haven Port Authority Answers some Questions Question 2.

Milford Haven Port Authority’s Responses to Questions Posed at the Recent Advisory Committee Meeting – Question 2

 

Billy Gannon, The Pembroke Dock Community Representative on Milford Haven Port Authority’s (MHPA) Advisory Committee, has received the following response to one of the questions put to the MHPA at their last advisory meeting.

Question 2 was:

2. Have MHPA explored the possibility of siting the Pembroke Dock Marine project on any other part of the Haven?

 

Reply from MHPA: Yes.  An Options Appraisal, including alternative sites, did form part of the appraisal process and this was included in the environmental impact assessment. The three unique attributes of this site are that (i) it has a substantial area of flat land adjacent to (ii) sufficiently deep water (iii) outside the boundary of the Special Area of Conservation. No other part of the Haven (or in Pembrokeshire) comes close to having this combination of factors.

 

AJ’s Comment:

The site at Waterloo Industrial Estate should have received more consideration. There is an area of flat land adjacent to other properties owned by Pembrokeshire County Council (PCC) and Milford Haven Port Authority (MHPA) have property on the foreshore. The site is within the Haven Waterway Enterprise Zone, and all that implies. See my blog post at for more detail of this site:

https://pdboyinsuffolk.blogspot.com/2021/02/pembroke-dock-infrastructure-project-at.html

The location of the project at Waterloo would require extensive consultation regarding potential temporary damage to the Special Area of Conservation and the Cosheston Pill SSSI balanced against the permanent loss of a group of highly significant listed monuments in Pembroke Dockyard that represent the fundamental reason why the town came into existence.

Other companies with businesses established at Waterloo, particulary those in the heavy industrial fabrication sector would doubtlessly welcome the infrastructure that the project would bring. After all, the governing document of Milford Haven Port Authority states that its aims include the development of the economic and cultural well-being and benefit of the communities around Milford Haven. See:

https://www.mhpa.co.uk/corporate-governance/

There are other land holders who have businesses at Waterloo, but, as mentioned above, many of these presently carry out work related to the renewable marine energy sector and I am sure that with the combined drive and negotiating power of MHPA and PCC agreement advantageous to these businesses could be established. Some of the plots have leases that are about to or have expired. One plot is subject to bankruptcy procedures.

I hope to post a blog about this later. 

AJ. 26/2/2021