Annex C - Information Sent to Members of Pembrokeshire County Council's Planning Committee for the Meeting on 20 April 2021.

 Annex C

The Effect of the Scheme on

the

Pembroke Dock Conservation Area

(Should consent be given for the burial, demolition and destruction of listed monuments within the western dockyard.)

Planning Application: 20/0732/PA (Outline)

I object to the application.

Diagrams compiled using Sketchup, Google earth, Map Maker 4 and various open-source data Files.

Diagram 1 – Map showing listed buildings in the dockyard marked with a blue star. Super slip is pink, fabrication sheds over buried monuments are pale blue.

The images below focus on the visual impact of the large sheds. However, the more important        

              

issue is that to build these huge structures, the applicant is seeking to demolish, bury and alter a very large number of listed and unlisted historical structures that are a unique assemblage of monuments that give testimony to the birth of Pembroke Dock and the industry that supported it for over one hundred years.

This is particularly deplorable when alternative sites are available. This would avoid the wholesale destructive damage to the core heritage site within the Pembroke Dock Conservation Area that could be used for alternative, more sustainable forms of employment. The western dockyard could also become a developing centre for education, training and leisure activities that use new, sustainable technologies to tell an exciting tale about the only Royal Naval Dockyard in Wales. 

Diagram  1A – The green markers show the location from which some of the following visualisations were taken.

Diagram 2 – An overview of the Dockyard showing important features subject to this Planning Application

Diagram 3 – Looking ESE appx – Notice size of SW Gun Tower relative to the new sheds.

Diagram 4 – Note the size of Paterchurch in front of the large shed A.

Diagram 5 – simulates the view from the footpath

Diagram 6 – Notice the size of the grey Oakum Store, right of centre. It is nearer the camera than either of the big new sheds. 

 

Diagram 7 – Taken from the Defensible Barracks. This shows the immense height of Shed B which the application says will be built over the buried Graving Dock (Listed Grade II*).  

Diagram 8 – Notice size of Gun Tower relative to shed.

Diagram 9 – A view of the dockyard in 1889 – Slips 1 and 2 are on the left. The gap between these and the other slip sheds is the location of the Graving Dock.Note the size on the gun tower compared to the image below in Diagram 10.

Diagram 10 – again notice size of Gun Tower. 

Diagram 11– The Commodore from the ENE. Notice proximity of the grey fabrication shed (shown in red in Diagrams 4 and 12) which totally obscures the view west from The Commodore and drastically affects the setting of this Grade II* building. Notice the lurking mass of Shed A in the distance. Street view image for comparison.

Diagram 12 – The Commodore from the SE. Notice how the red Shed C crowds in on this Grade II* building. Also notice Paterchurch and how its setting and view to the west is dominated by the large Shed A.