After 25 years and much damage

Eclipse using Solar Power Data.

Eclipse200315

0845 2.5 kw

0900 412 w

birds confused flying around

0914 378 w

all birds returned to roosts none flying

0900 150w

0922 220w

0927 190w

1 wren flying around sounding alarm calls

0928 215w

0929 224w

0930 241w

0931 241w

0932 288w

0933 blackbird dawn chorus

0934 jackdaw left roost

0935 sparrows become active

0937 doves call

0938 526w

0939 roosting blackbirds and jackdaws look around

0940 sparrows fly

0941 jackdaws call

0941 subdued movements but not feeding not normal behaviour not drinking or bathing.

1000 1.63 kw

1020 2.736 kw

birds flying but not normally active still subdued perching and looking around..

No Planning Permission no Tree Protection permission,much vandalism

2015 chaos and much more, site with sea cave ancient remains within the town walls

Conservation Area Listed but no permission at all

The old and the new Milford Haven

The last working oil refinery and a new solar farm. A windmill is facing planning problems but windmills function 24 hours a day if the wind is blowing they are complementary

Pembroke Trees in a Conservation Area

 21C garden garden next door is now for sale after 21C used grants to  clear it.

The last of many fig trees outside the walls

National Trust Incompetence

 These works were carried out yesterday to comply with beach safety 100% worse

 PCNP and NT still insist that these remains of the Listed Structure date not from 1798 but 1948 these are deliberate lies by named officers.

National Trust Incompetence, compare with previous post

The planning application was to put a 600mm pipe to below the pebble bank
But now incompetence has spread the pebbles from the bank to low water level, covering the sand.
So planning application is irrelevant, the notice for which was erected yesterday.

National Trust and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Collusion

Forget planning laws just go ahead and do what both parties originally intended

The contractors have placed the materials on the beach and are preparing to carry out the intended work before any objections are heard

WE HAVE ASKED THAT THE MONITOR OFFICER PCNPA ENQUIRE INTO THE CONDUCT OF THIS PLANNING APPLICATION by the Planning Officer Andrew Richards.

I am told that the work is being justified to fulfill my complaints to Health and Safety PCC.

IF SO WHY WAS IT NOT ACKNOWLEDGED IN MARCH 2014

Culvert Fresh Water West

 Heavy plant on the beach to further destroy the evidence

The bank has been moved to conceal the remains of the culvert, the leat has been blocked the water level raised no passage for migratory fish
THIS HAS HAPPENED AFTER WE COMPLAINED TO HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE DANGEROUS STATE OF THE BEACH THIS IS NATIONAL TRUST SOLUTION BLOCK IT COMPLETELY

ALL DATED PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AVAILABLE

Gupton under NT Management

For years local people the National Trust and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park have been concerned at the poaching of the soil and loss by erosion on this National Trust owned tenanted farm..
NOW under National Trust management the situation is much worse much more soil is bare at the start of spring most wild plants have been exterminated there is no cover for ground nesting birds and the land is overstocked
The culvert is now destroyed.

PCNP P/A NP/15/0091/FUL OBJECTION please read and support

To replace 1798 grade two listed Royal Society Gold Medal drainage scheme which had stabilised a storm beach and maintained a Calcareous Water Meadow SSSI for Agriculture and Conservation for 215 years until National Trust and Pembroke Coast unlawfuly demolished part of the structure to earn £3.5 M from filming.

See Monitor Officer PCNP Report.

The structure as built was self clearing requiring little maintenance until NT ceased maintenance in 2008.

The remaining structure is now being destroyed by NT use of heavy plant to maintain the outflow.

The resulting steep pebble banks are a continuing danger to users of the beach

Work required

Rebuild the lime mortar inspection chamber

Replace the illegally demolished Culvert on the beach

Planning application is to replace this with a 12 m 600mm plastic pipe laid on the sand surface.

This is

Totally inadequate to to maintain the drainage of then Corse (dimensions of the culvert)

Replacing (dimensions of the Culvert)

Vulnerable to wave damage, replacing 1meter lime mortar foundation overlaid with dressed and lead sealed wrought iron clamped 3.5 m wide mortared 1m,1m1m dressed limestone blocks, to support wrought iron hoops clad with removable 3 inch by 9 inch planks original teak later repaired by greenheart, pitch pine,iroko and after Beecham redundant railway sleepers.

This application is a cynical stage in the NT and PCNP policy of no more maintenance of sea defences in their care.

Health and Safety was used as a spurious reason for demolition despite that the fact that Environment Agency (now NRW)was  retrospectively fitting grills to deny access to culverts all over Wales.

Note the proposed 600mm pipe is not fitted with a grill a child could easily crawl up into the chamber and get trapped

The pipe must extend a least to the width of the bank beyond the bank to prevent seas forcing stones into and blocking the pipe

NOTE there is no provision to remove these obstructive stones to maintain flow and maintain the water levels n the Corse.NT intention is to carry out minimum works.

When this fails after one year to apply to demolish the entire listed structure.

The Scheme as proposed does not comply with EU Waters Directive EU EEL Directive and EU Migratory Fish Directive

Please reject this application and ask then NT to return with a properly researched scheme after all they and others benefited to the tune of £3.5 m.

Skomer Island 2014

2014 was the worst year for bird breeding on Skomer,Island.

One school of thought places the blame on the winter storms,but fails to take historic factors into account..

Returning birds down by a half , only a quarter of those nesting reared one chick.

Only half of these will survive leaving the island for the open sea.

Overfishing is one of the important reasons,factory fishing of sand eels for fertiliser pet food and as food for salmon farming,leaving only species such as pipefish with little food value for the birds to feed their young.

Acidification of seawater by increased atmospheric carbon dioxide a very small change in the Ph from alkalinity towards acid affects the efficiency of all fertilisation membranes.

This affects the breeding of their food sources pelagic surface living fish.

Seabirds which breed on Skomer are long lived, we have not taken account of the increase of ultra violet light which causes cataracts among other changes in visual acuity.

We can see the effects of increasing exposure to UV causing an increase of cataracts in human beings, spectacles prescribed for our children are now being fitted with lenses which block Ultra Violet light,our sea going friends, birds, cannot wear sun glasses.

Past experience has shown that man facilitated disease organisms can spread rapidly through these dense nesting colonies.

We cannot quantify the coastal effects of land based viruses on marine organisms as we no longer use methods to kill them before they are released form our sewage sea outfalls.

Sea bird colonies and seals are vulnerable to disturbance non existent in 1955, 2014 an overwhelming 24 hour revenue raising human presence.

There are few undisturbed and undegraded spaces on our coasts, access for human leisure must not be allowed to cause further harm.

References

Annual Report SWWNT 2014

RSB Reports

University of Bristol

Skomer 2014

A polemic but all based on scientific reports

which I had not accessed before my previous article

There is now to opportunity for change,new officers in the relevant bodies are willing to face facts and change practises in Pembrokeshire but management are muzzling them.

FOI makes this possible.

Ian Campbell 310115