Plans to demolish what is believed to be a former lifeboat house on Southend seafront and replace it with a three-storey restaurant are set to be rejected.
Saved - the boathouse on Western Esplanade Picture: ROBIN WOOSEY
The council's development control committee will tomorrow look at the scheme for the old lifeboat house on Western Esplanade.
In a report by technical services director David Watts, they will be told the building would detract from the quality of the seafront environment in the area because of its scale and design on a prominent site.
In addition, the site was adjacent to an area of potentially unstable land that had been the subject of movement in recent years.
Any new plans should have an assessment of the stability of the land and remedial measures that could be used.
Mr Watts said: "This is a highly visible site in an area where visual amenity and aesthetics are extremely important."
Published Tuesday May 25, 2004
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