On Thursday the 8th of October Stephanie Henderson-Brown (RP Director), Mo Bowyer (RP resident), Malcolm Wood (Land Director, St George) and Sean Chappell (Senior Construction Manager, St George) held one of their regular liaison meetings – the aim of which is for Regatta Point to raise any issues with the development next door and for St George’s to keep us abreast with progress.

The following are highlights of the meeting:

• The opening up of the main archway to public use will be delayed until all large deliveries to site have been completed. This is in order to minimise the risk of mixing heavy good delivery, cars and pedestrians in that area.
• Plans to completely re-surface the public pavement, re-position services, relocate bus stops further back in the pavement and narrow the pavement by a metre in order to provide a cycle lane are being finalised. When they are carried out alternative pathways for pedestrians will be available because of the completion of ground works in the block next to RP.
• The tall, overgrown, trees and bushes next to RP east wall have been removed and will be replaced by low-level shrubs. However, many dying climbing plants are still overhanging the RP east wall and trellises, and the small trellises that were on top of the walls in the central area of the RP car park have been removed by St George’s. Sean Chappell came in to the RP car park for a site inspection, and agreed that St George’s would remove all of the overhanging plants and replace the small missing trellises in order to help keep RP secure. Sean Chappell will contact Stephanie Henderson-Brown with a convenient date for this to take place.
• Security is to be maintained on the public footpath between the St George’s development and Regatta Point by the implementation of gates at the roadside and riverside end of the development. These gates will be locked overnight with key codes issued to St George’s residents and some boat owners. The St George’s development is managed by Premier Estates who have both security cameras and 24 hour staff on site. This area will not be open until nearer to the end of the build.
• There are now approximately 10 units left to sell. Once these are sold the marketing suite building can be demolished. This work is already being put out to tender.
• The completion of the rest of the roadside site is expected to be spring/summer 2016, but the roadside hoarding which partly obscures the vision of car drivers entering and leaving regatta Point will not be removed until the end of the build.
• Most of the ground floor commercial units will be for office use and one of the units is under offer from a production company. There will be two retail units.

Next meeting Thursday 10th December 08:30am.