dungeness closure

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Dungeness closure
by jonjon101 Yesterday at 7:53 am

.Sorry I know I should not cut and paste someones work but this was on the World Sea Fishing Forums site. All for one and one for all.




"Dungeness....disastrous access retrictions proposed from October to April!.



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Dear fellow anglers,

I had a short meeting today with Tony Hills, proprietor of Seagull
Tackle at Greatstone, local councillor to Dungeness and committee member
of Dungeness Angling Association.
Tony brought to my attention a new planning application by EDF Energy
Nuclear Generation Ltd (basically Dungie nuclear power station). This
planning application has disastrous implications for all of us who enjoy
our winter fishing at Dungie.
In summary, they are requesting a closure of all public access during
the daytime to the area bordering the EA road between the boats and just
short of the boardwalk. Putting it simply, they want to close the
point area for daytime fishing between October and April so that they
can commence shingle redistribution....not for one year but until
2023!!!!!!!!
Not good for a number of reasons but mainly:
On one level we will be losing access to some of the best cod, whiting
and dab fishing in the SE, but equally importantly, while this is not
good news for us able bodied anglers who can manage the two hundred yard
trudge across the shingle either side of the fence, the loss of this
area which is adjacent to the EA access road means any less able or more
aged anglers are no longer going to be able to drive close enough to
be able to fish at Dungeness.
Potentially, we are about to lose access to one of the most historic and iconic cod fishing shore venues in the world.
DAA have started a paper petition, copies will be found throughout the
SE tackle shops very shortly. However, objections and petitions need to
be registered within 28 days of the 19th September, which as of now
only gives us 2 weeks to register our objections.
I have set up an e-petition here:http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/18192
It takes less than 30 seconds to sign.
If you are a member of any other forums, web sites, social networks,
please please copy this post to the other forums you use and ask your
facebook/twitter/friends reunited contacts to sign this petition as
well.
If we use the internet as it can be used, we can achieve massive numbers
and have a real influence on the decisions to be soon made by Kent
County Council.
We have 2 weeks to do this...starting now! ".
jonjon101


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