The planning application for the relocation of the shore dive access road to ‘Green Ends Gully’ and ‘Nest Ends’ at Eyemouth Harbour is now live and available to view on the Scottish Borders Council online planning portal, reference number: 20/00773/FUL
Eyemouth Harbour Trust (EHT) are committed to ensuring continuation of this important access for shore divers to enjoy the East Berwickshire Coast in order to enable a proposed development of an offshore wind operations and maintenance facility at the harbour to progress whilst ensuring it sits comfortably alongside existing amenities around the harbour. EHT Business Manager, Christine Bell, commented that ‘Dive tourism makes an important contribution to our coastal community and EHT and looks forward to continuing to welcome the many clubs and individuals who use and enjoy the access to the shore at this beautiful part of the Berwickshire Coast whilst also being able to bring the wider economic growth, inward investment and long-term jobs and training that the O&M base will bring about. Now more than ever, tourism needs a boost and coastal communities like Eyemouth require a range of activities to thrive.”
You can show your support for the proposal by logging on to the portal via the link: https://eplanning.scotborders.gov.uk/online-applications/
- Eyemouth Harbour is a trust port, managed by a board of trustees which is made up of key figures from within the local community. The purpose of the Trust is to maintain, preserve and improve Eyemouth Harbour for the benefit of stakeholders and the local community; whilst creating an important socio-economic legacy for the East Berwickshire area.
- As a trust port, EHT operates on broadly commercial lines, competing with private and local authority ports as well as other trust ports, we are essentially a not for profit organisation, meaning that all revenue is ploughed back in to our facilities and services.
- The Trust was set up in 1797 by an Act of Parliament and is today governed by The Eyemouth Harbour Order 1882. The 1882 Order set up the Trust in its present form and details how it is to be run.
- For further information on Eyemouth Harbour Trust, please visit their website eyemouth-harbour.co.uk
