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Perhaps it's a good time to go for planning permission. The whole Covid thing may make folk think slightly differently. Bristol like many other places will be desperate to get its tourist economy going again. In normal times it would benifit from many overseas visitors. Those are likely to take a long time to recover and may not depending on how things pan out. It would seem stupid to throw away an almost guaranteed income stream.

Emailing may be the better option if taken into consideration but not published online.

EDIT: Just read through the Privacy notice again, even if you Email it will be added to the site with all personal details, minus Email address and phone number.

I have emailed them my comments in support of the development anyway stating I have withheld my full name and address for security reasons. They can either consider it or not but I feel I have done my bit.

Perhaps if enough of us do this it might have some impact!

peedee

I didn't bother checking the privacy terms etc but in the automated response I received it states they require your name and address for the following reasons:

 A name and postal address is essential when deciding whether to grant planning permission because it allows us to assess the information and take into account where you are in relation to the application.

As I have provided a reason for submitting the request and my position  in relation to the request, I do not feel as a none resident in the area any further information should be necessary.

peedee

 Am I the only one to email them?

peedee

It's a public matter and all contributors have to be seen to be publicly verified. I wondered if the club could have asked for support from members in another way but it boils down to "being in the public domain."

The Baltic Wharf site is unique in it's waterside position, this site doesn't offer the same but it would provide a base for much needed visitors to explore the area.

It’s simple really. Anyone wishing to support the application and retain a degree of anonymity just needs to write, email, whatever. It’s announcing what you have done on here that destroys your anonymity! We all use a forum name, rather than our own, probably only a few friends that might make the link?

(Unless of course your forum name is your name, in which case any anonymity is history anyway!)😁

PD, in the past, when we have supported or not supported planning applications, we have always had updates on that application even if out of our area. We still get the odd letter from East Lothian regarding a wind farm!

I think the problem viz a viz adding an official comment to the planning application compared to sending an email of support is that the latter could well be ignored during the planning hearing. For my sins I have made a public comment because I wanted not only to support the application but also to challenge some of the conclusions reached by Local Authority officials. At the end of the day what I have written may also be ignored as those officials will, no doubt, continue to support their own conclusions. The process is that the application will come before the Planning Committee who in the main are ordinary Councillors and we have to hope they will look at the project overall rather than just the nitty gritty of what the planning guidelines say. To my mind the greater number of people who are willing to officially comment on the application the more likely it is to have some influence. I suspect the majority of us are at a disadvantage as we don't live in Bristol and as such our comments won't carry as much weight. What we have to try and do is plant the doubt that the planners are making a mistake by rejecting this application.

David

I agree fully DK. Better a well thought out letter than a basic email, even if the letter is emailed😁

I think it needs support from other than Bristol area as well, showing how tourism can help an area. 

I am not a fan of Planning Committees. I have sat in on some, eyebrow raising at times😲

I can understand people's concerns about privacy, in fact I had a few concerns myself but then I thought if I am serious about making a comment to the application I have to bite that bullet. Just hope the bullet doesn't ricochet back at me!!!

David

(Unless of course your forum name is your name, in which case any anonymity is history anyway!)😁

Even knowing my own name and location I have never been able to find anything on the internet about myself  Using my username will find hits though but nothing that I need to hide and it is used by many and so loads of hits 

It is interesting though that somebody who thought they were security conscious had no idea. Following a remark about security online I sat down one day, about 10 years ago, and tried to find information online about her.

OK I new where she lived but I ignored what I already knew. What did I find armed initially with her e-mail address?

Her middle name

Her Address

Her date of birth

Her daughters address (same house)

Her mother's maiden name

Her Date of birth and was able to work out her daughters date of birth by a birthday comment on facebook

Her son's address and name and his wife's name

There was more but as it was about 10 years ago I can't recall the rest.

Most of the info took 20 mins but in total I spent an hour. 

Her mistake was posting her e-mail address on a forum which had a grandparent's surname on the post even though I did not recognise her forum name. A google search on her e-mail address had that one hit. The rest fell in place easily.

It is surprising the silly things that folk post. On a caravan forum a poster had mentioned helping another member out who lived just round the corner and he named the street of the other member. I sent him a PM to warn him that he might want to get admin to delete the street name and told him that he might wish to change his I also told him and his friends full addresses. Pretty easy and the PM was sent about 5 mins of me seeing his post. His avatar had an image of his caravan on the road outside a house made distinctive by the wide curve of the pavement outside his house to where the road was set back. The street name that he mentioned made it very easy as it did not have more than 3 or 4 hits on google