Please sign the petition in support of Standard Quay’s boatbuilding future

Please sign the petition in support of Standard Quay’s boatbuilding future: "

Standard Quay, winter 2010/11

Please sign this e-petition as it offers an opportunity to register public support for serious moves to save Faversham’s Standard Quay from an inappropriate development that would curtail or end the boat building and repairing being carried out there now. It’s a cause that deserves the support of anyone who cares about the future of traditional boat building, and about the future of the Thames sailing barge fleet.

If you’re new to this issue, read more about the danger to Standard Quay at the Faversham Creek website and from this national newspaper article.

Also, do please take a moment to read the latest news and watch a short movie about Faversham Creek and Standard Quay put together by local film maker Simon Clay and journalist Richard Fleury. In relation to that site, I’d be curious to know which of the facts included in Simon Henley’s article are held to be incorrect by councillors. The news section of Simon and Richard’s site will explain what I mean.

I should report that I wrote to many of the local councillors just before an important meeting held in November and did not receive a single reply – not even an acknowledgement.

Finally, if you can, please pass this message to friends interested in this issue. The easiest way may be to select, copy and paste this web address into an email: http://intheboatshed.net/?p=12714

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