Possible closure of Tynemouth Pier

[Hedley]

Lads & Lasses - have heard that Port of Tyne are to meet to discuss the closure of Tynemouth Pier to fishing clubs! Anyone know anything about it?

[fishfinder]

Hope not hedley

[Charlton]

would like to hear if this is true Hedley

[Mike.Haley]

Just the Duke of Northumberland after more money. Them pair of greedy B******s will stop at nothing. There hoping the fishing clubs will offer them more to keep it open.

[sless]

i thought the port of tyne authority owned the piers

[johnf]

Sless. Chances are the Duke gets \'rent money\' from PofT as the land at the start of the pier is probably \'his\'. It\'s terrifying how much income this family must have from this kind of thing as the amount of land he owns is awesome. (If I want to put a conservatory up in the back garden I have to give him £400 for the privilege, the silver spoon in gob t*sspot, and all the grants he got for Alnwick gardens as well).
Come the revolution!

[sless]

he is allowed to grow canabis aswell
legally

[TC]

3 interesting facts for you:

1. The Duke of Northumberland has 132,200 acres worth in excess of £800 million.

2. The Queen and her immediate family of just eight people have for their use, in one way or another, the same amount of land as 11,000,000 people who live in England.

3. The Duke of Westminster with 129,300 acres, including highly valuable parts of the richest land of real estate in the World, namely Belgravia and Mayfair in central London, owns land worth over £11.5 billion. He is the wealthiest individual in Britain.



[Edited on 19/4/2006 by TC]

[sless]

the lives they could save with a little bit of their money

it doesnt bear thinking about

[Mike.Haley]

As far as I have been able to gather, The Duke of Northumberland owns the fishing rights for tynemouth pier.

[Hedley]

Clubs don\'t pay to use the Pier - rather get permission from Port of Tyne. No money in that for the Duke (?)

[peter.m]

Until now Hedley?

[troutman]

hedley.
could this be down to health and safety,public liability that people climb on after the gates are closed and have to rescued as in the past.this is the excuse they have used to stop all fishing of the piers at blackpool and nobody has been hurt there since the clubs have taken over
hope it isnt closed to us fisherman who respect the places we fish as i have a match on the pier with the civil service team finals next year.
tynemouth pier is the proposed venue.
troutman

[Defective]

hedley.
could this be down to health and safety,public liability that people climb on after the gates are closed and have to rescued as in the past.this is the excuse they have used to stop all fishing of the piers at blackpool and nobody has been hurt there since the clubs have taken over
hope it isnt closed to us fisherman who respect the places we fish as i have a match on the pier with the civil service team finals next year.

tynemouth pier is the proposed venue.
troutman

The clubs that have permission to fish on Tynemouth pier must have 3rd party liability insurance so i dont think that is the reason if they close it. Its more likely to do with the rubish left on there by the lads that climb over at night. Ive been on the pier at 9-30 am and the end of the place is a right tip, there is bait packets, line, carrier bags, old cloths and often beer cans left lying around. Is it any wonder they are thinking of closing it the the angler.
I fish with newbiggin hall club and the first thing we do when we go along is to pick up other peoples rubbish, but its to late as the watchman/gatekeeper or whatever you want to call him has already been along and seen it.

[Edited on 1/5/2006 by Defective]

[MT]

how do you go about getting permission Hedley if its not closed then may be worth our club applying and if nothing else it will be another club cleaning the mess away of the inconsiderate b******s who leave it. sorry if theis offends but you just need to see the state of blyth pier or say the rat house `or even davey bank (which now appears closed) to understand the frustration of the majority. what effort does it take to remove your rubbish? whats the cost of leaving it?