Assessment of Boatyard Facilities on the River Thames - Mayor of ...

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<strong>Boatyard</strong> Record Sheet
<strong>Boatyard</strong> number: 41 (50)
Premises
Trading Name: Lay Construction
Telephone no:
Address : 1 Clifton Parade
Gravesend
Kent
Postcode: DA12
Operator: Previously Lay Group Ltd – now subject to redevelopment
Tenant: No
Freeholder: Yes
<strong>Facilities</strong>
Open slipway: No
Land storage: Yes
Covered slipway: No
Pontoon moorings: No
Dry dock: No (drying out blocks)
Buoy/bankside moorings: Yes
Boat Hoist/Crane: No
Covered workshop: Yes
Chandlery: No
Max dimension <strong>of</strong> craft that can be slipped / dry docked / lifted / moored
Length: 18.2 metres
Beam: 6 metres
Tonnage: 13 tonnes
Employee numbers (in 2000)
20 staff in total: 2 platers/welders
1 engineer
1 electrician
16 laminators/assemblers
1 naval architect/site manager
Context
Planning and environmental health issues:
Mr Newman said that noise complaints were received very occasionally from nearby
flats.
Relationship to adjoining land uses/other boatyard facilities:
Upstream <strong>of</strong> the site, an out <strong>of</strong> town retail estate has been developed. Downstream
<strong>of</strong> the site, there is currently a commercial building although permission has recently
been given for residential redevelopment <strong>of</strong> the site.
Access arrangements (capacity, proximity to major roads):
The site has direct pedestrian access onto Thames Way (a local road) although there
is no footway. Vehicular access to the site is <strong>of</strong>f Stuart Road (a local road) through a
piece <strong>of</strong> land which is owned by the Lay Group and leased and operated by a builders
merchant. The access runs along the route <strong>of</strong> the old railway line and onto the viaduct
where the site <strong>of</strong>fice is situated.
<strong>Assessment</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Boatyard</strong> <strong>Facilities</strong> on the River Thames Adams Hendry Consulting Ltd - April 2007