Middleton Huts

admin · January 02, 2018, 02: PM

The Hartlepool Post is going to be covering this in more detail but, in the meanwhile, here is some background from Facebook by those involved in the fight to save the Middleton Huts. This is not only a community of people but also home to a colony of cats. Does the council wish to lose this piece of heritage for it to become another fly-tipping site like the ramp onto the beach?

The Post has seen documentation confirming that PD Ports actually own the land and that HBC is just a 'middle man'.

'... we have 2 months and the Fishermen will have to move the cabins.
The council wanted to develope the marina so offered a huge carrot on a stick to get the fishermen to move their cabins and promised to subsidise the rent as the place they offered was more.They did not want to move but had no choice..

The council would have you believe they helped pay this rent from the goodness of their black hearts. NOT TRUE...

They would also have you believe that its P.D.Ports fault the cabins are going to be kicked off this plot. NOT TRUE...

The fishermens cabins are a piece of this towns heritage and we should fight to keep it...Also they the council would have you believe by planting people on fb to say so that several sites have been offered and the coucil would pay to move the cabins.. NOT QUITE TRUE...none of the sites are actually available..' Admin. note - these sites were not only not less than available but were largely in landlocked areas - hardly suitable for boats

'The rent was put up for each cabin for 2yrs before the cabin owners were told by the council so once told the cabin owners were in debt....do you think this is fair and legal? We as a town need to stand up against this council everywhere we can.

Hartlepool Life has publised our story, with Cranney interviewed and blaming P.D. Ports in print where he can not detract it. The Mail have then posted a sit on the fence story where they did speak to P.D.Ports who said the current lease that the council agreed to ends april 2019 but that the council have told them they want to terminate this agreement in feb 2018..

*the older photo is where the original cabins were and were happy there. But Mandale wanted the land and said it was for a tall ship repair center, that would bring in the town lots of work and money. NOT TRUE.. they then tried to fill in the bay which is behind where the marina shops etc now are. John Prescot got hold of the story and got it stopped just as they started filling in the water to make land to build on. nothing to do with a tall ship repair centre..'

To see this information in context/read more please see the following links:

https://www.facebook.com/Middleton-Cabin-Owners-Hartlepool-1069567936479879/?hc_location=group

https://www.facebook.com/wildcats.of.middleton/

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jawsbbc · January 04, 2018, 07: PM

does anyone know what the middleton huts land might be need for ??

stokoe · January 04, 2018, 07: PM

Quote from: jawsbbc on January 04, 2018, 07: PM
does anyone know what the middleton huts land might be need for ??

Somewhere for the council to dump there bull***t.

On a serious note hope they will survive.

Lucy Lass-Tick · January 04, 2018, 07: PM

Quote from: jawsbbc on January 04, 2018, 07: PM
does anyone know what the middleton huts land might be need for ??

Good point. If PD Ports own the land & aren't in a chasing hurry to change things why is HBC in such a rush?

jeffh · January 04, 2018, 07: PM

It wouldn't surprise me if they wanted to erect a big shed to show off their new split ship - talking of which if they leave the Wingfield Castle much longer they will have a split ship of their own, without having to fork out for one that's in Southampton.

Lucy Lass-Tick · January 04, 2018, 08: PM

Quote from: stokoe on January 04, 2018, 07: PM
Quote from: jawsbbc on January 04, 2018, 07: PM
does anyone know what the middleton huts land might be need for ??

Somewhere for the council to dump there bull***t.

On a serious note hope they will survive.

A real community and part of our heritage.

jawsbbc · January 04, 2018, 08: PM

Quote from: Lucy Lass-Tick on January 04, 2018, 07: PM
Quote from: jawsbbc on January 04, 2018, 07: PM
does anyone know what the middleton huts land might be need for ??

Good point. If PD Ports own the land & aren't in a chasing hurry to change things why is HBC in such a rush?

exactly something is coming off here mark my words

Inspector Knacker · January 04, 2018, 08: PM

Planning application in for a 400ft lighthouse in gold, modelled on the dear leader dressed like Britannia?

fred c · January 04, 2018, 09: PM

Quote from: jeffh on January 04, 2018, 07: PM
It wouldn't surprise me if they wanted to erect a big shed to show off their new split ship - talking of which if they leave the Wingfield Castle much longer they will have a split ship of their own, without having to fork out for one that's in Southampton.

A couple of council meetings ago..... so I can't be sure.... but i seem to recall that the condition of HMS Rustbucket was on the agenda, Cranney was at the lectern giving us all the benefit of his Re-Generation acumen, and he mentioned that the council proposed to have a survey done on the vessel to determine its condition, I think a figure of £20k was mentioned.

Stig of the Seaton Dump · January 04, 2018, 10: PM

The profit from one house on that land would be more than the rent for all the huts and then there is the council tax revenue to look forward to.

Inspector Knacker · January 05, 2018, 06: AM

I can't see the logic of building houses there at the present time. The old Richardson Westgarth site is a huge builders yard and then there's the docks activity. However, if at some future date the dock activity was to cease and the 'branch office activity' transferred to Teesport as the south of the river appears to be where the activity will be, that land at Middleton could be a very lucrative site.

The Great Dictator · January 05, 2018, 08: AM

Who are the 3 ward councillors for this ward ?

jeffh · January 05, 2018, 09: AM

Quote from: The Great Dictator on January 05, 2018, 08: AM

Who are the 3 ward councillors for this ward ?

Shane Moore - UKIP
Tim Fleming - UKIP
Dr Mike McLaughlin - Labour

isolde · January 05, 2018, 11: AM

people need to think, there is only one reason the council would take two years to tell the committee that the rent went up?
its a limited company on no profit basis?
so they could not pay and so had broke the contract when they got the huge sudden bill for two yrs extra! unfortunatley for the council it was not that easy, the fishermen managed to pull together and find it all so they did not break their contract and did pay the rent 　 this is how your council works folks

the landowners are not wanting to sell or develope the land. they want the fishermens huts to stay. they are trying their best to make compromises but the council whom are the agents inbetween who have the rent contract are not helpful.

Lucy Lass-Tick · January 05, 2018, 01: PM

Whilst still spending money like sailors in port HBC seems to be trying to claw in every penny they can. If they were genuinely struggling financially they would surely cut the vanity projects rather than community resources? As two simple examples, just look at the attempted (abandoned) rise in allotment charges & the appalling loss of vulnerable people's emergency call facilities at the same time they're spending money on yet more artists' impressions of daydreams which (if they follow the usual pattern) will never come to fruition. Does priority go to pet projects ... even CICs?