Save Seaburn

These houses are not badly needed
Nice to have for some but not badly needed
There are houses on sea fields that have been for sale for years
There's nowt on Seafields for sale currently is there? Seafields isn't that nice anyway.
I've been looking for some time. Any good 4 bedders or 3 bed with potential are getting snapped up. Going for daft prices too. There was absolute dump of a place on south bents advertised for 395k and needed minimum 40k spending on it. Went no problem as potential was there and decent plot.
Miller have said they've had huge demand for this development (they will of course). But they are pricing this as one of the most expensive in the region so shows the demand is there.
 


There's nowt on Seafields for sale currently is there? Seafields isn't that nice anyway.
I've been looking for some time. Any good 4 bedders or 3 bed with potential are getting snapped up. Going for daft prices too. There was absolute dump of a place on south bents advertised for 395k and needed minimum 40k spending on it. Went no problem as potential was there and decent plot.
Miller have said they've had huge demand for this development (they will of course). But they are pricing this as one of the most expensive in the region so shows the demand is there.
The place will look shite in 20 years
Have a look at shearwater at Whitburn to see the future
New houses are rubbish and just fill the coffers of building companies
Loads of recent articles about very poor design and quality coupled with overloading amenities
The nouveau riche of the seaburn corniche will love them with their his and her Nissan jukes
Until Brexit kicks in
 
Why has the recent Planning application from Miller Homes been deferred? What is wrong with the Sewage & Drainage system?
'The proposed flows from The Miller Homes development will go into a foul sewage system which does not have any more capacity to take them.
When the initial Planning Permission was granted, concerns where already raised by residents and industry experts that the proposed foul sewage overflows would flow into the Storm System. The Flood Authority and Northumbrian Water were wrong yet documents in the planning application suggest that we must take everything Northumbrian Water and the Flood Authority say for granted. Even if they say that the new scheme will not enter the storm system. This shows a complete misunderstanding by Norththumbrian Water and the Flood Authority of the system as connecting manhole 6702 to manhole 5610 is completely unacceptable.
The fact is that using manhole 4802 (as suggested in the planning application) to then flow through other manholes into the inadequate sewage system which then floods and surcharges (as Norththumbrian Water have admitted) means that sewage will again backup and eventually flow into the storm water tunnel through manholes 6702 to 5610 and to 5609.
Miller Homes’ development is going to add 3 litres per second to the system, which is actually a large amount when you realise that normal dry weather flow from the whole of Whitburn and South Bents is 19 litres per second.
The Public Inquiry into the system in 2001 created a Consent for the Storm Tunnel which discharges to sea at Whitburn. This Consent still remains valid today as do the figures submitted to that Inquiry (confirmed by Northumbrian Water and the Environmental Agency). The Consent allows flows into the tunnel from only 3 sources –Whitburn Bents CSO, Seaburn CSO (Dykelands Road) and Roker CSO- the new overflow created at Seaburn Camp (manholes 5610 to 5609) does not have consent. The Consent also only allows flows into the tunnel in times of heavy rainfall or snowmelt, not just an overflow to take pressure off the system. Since the Inquiry, over 450 houses have been added to the system and a further 160 houses added at Whitburn and the Bay hotel site.
The Storm Tunnel supposedly only receives flows in heavy rainfall yet last year (2018), one of the driest years in our area, it discharged over 370000 tonnes to sea in 10 months. This is after spending 10 million pound of public money on the system….
In addition, the pumping station at Whitburn has so called ‘Return Pumps’ which are now being used to pump sewage back to the sewer from the tunnel. These operated every day in 2018. An example of this is that from 20 June 2018 to 7 July 2018, when there was no rainfall, 2410 cubic metres was ‘returned’. This is the equivalent of 5 road tankers every day spilling foul sewage into the Storm Tunnel.
The only possible source for these flows is from the overloaded sewage system. After circulating, any flows that are too great for the treatment plant, will end up as discharges to sea (370000 cubic metres in one year) or as discharges into the River Wear at St. Peters.
There is simply no capacity in the current system to take on any new developments in the area. It is therefor vital to get an ‘independent’ survey done and make sure Northumbrian Water makes vital changes and updates to their system in our area.
Regeneration of the area is welcomed by all and most of us will agree that some new housing developments, alongside plenty seafront leisure, is crucial to the regeneration. But before any dvelopments start, an adequate sewage and drainage system is required to avoid an environmental crisis.
With the current system, the health and wellbeing of our children and grandchildren is at risk.'
If I write to blue peter and get them to send you and your nauseatingly smug crew a badge each, will you all please please please stop boring the living piss out of us on every single local forum. Just keep the back slapping and self adulation on save seaburn where we can all ignore it.👍

oh and regeneration is welcome 🤣
 
Might give Metnor and Brims a ring today and see if they are stopping work. Will the SS be protesting against these developments connecting into the existing sewer system?
 
Might give Metnor and Brims a ring today and see if they are stopping work. Will the SS be protesting against these developments connecting into the existing sewer system?
How can anything possibly go forward if it’s already over capacity? Everything should stop until the remedial work is completed no matter how long it takes, how much of the sea front needs to be dug up, how long the disruption lasts or how many businesses suffer.
I’ll be protesting against every development forthwith until I know our precious beaches are safe from rouge pap and Draculas teabags....
 
How can anything possibly go forward if it’s already over capacity? Everything should stop until the remedial work is completed no matter how long it takes, how much of the sea front needs to be dug up, how long the disruption lasts or how many businesses suffer.
I’ll be protesting against every development forthwith until I know our precious beaches are safe from rouge pap and Draculas teabags....
I will be campaigning with you to get them stopped. Unless we get the contract for the hotel like.
 
Might give Metnor and Brims a ring today and see if they are stopping work. Will the SS be protesting against these developments connecting into the existing sewer system?
Wouldn't surprise me if they did :lol:
In fact once they realise underground pipework doesn't just magically install itself it's pretty much nailed on....
 
walked passed this morning with the dag and they must have concerns about flooding as they are busy constructing an attenuation tank about the size of a tennis court and 10' deep built out of what to the layman look like plastic beer crates
 
Looks a right mess. Hope they sort it before all the bad weather.
walked passed this morning with the dag and they must have concerns about flooding as they are busy constructing an attenuation tank about the size of a tennis court and 10' deep built out of what to the layman look like plastic beer crates
Cesspit.
 
One of the main ss gobshites has been moaning about the aquatic centre on next door saying it’s not Olympic spec and labour council are inept blah blah blah. when one fella asked him to provide evidence the pool isn’t up to standard he replied you obviously support labour by your Facebook page so let’s close the conversation as this site is supposed to be none political 🤣

The f***ing clown shoe couldn’t provide a single piece of evidence it’s not to spec.
 
One of the main ss gobshites has been moaning about the aquatic centre on next door saying it’s not Olympic spec and labour council are inept blah blah blah. when one fella asked him to provide evidence the pool isn’t up to standard he replied you obviously support labour by your Facebook page so let’s close the conversation as this site is supposed to be none political 🤣

The f***ing clown shoe couldn’t provide a single piece of evidence it’s not to spec.



that old chestnut 😄
 
One of the main ss gobshites has been moaning about the aquatic centre on next door saying it’s not Olympic spec and labour council are inept blah blah blah. when one fella asked him to provide evidence the pool isn’t up to standard he replied you obviously support labour by your Facebook page so let’s close the conversation as this site is supposed to be none political 🤣

The f***ing clown shoe couldn’t provide a single piece of evidence it’s not to spec.

I almost feel sorry for people like that with zero self-awareness.
 

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