ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING Thursday, 24th May 2018 CHAIRMANS - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING

Thursday, 24th May 2018

CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION

David Riley

BOARD OF COWES HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS

• Capt. Stuart McIntosh

Harbour Master David Riley Chairman Jeff Armitage Jonathan Gillespie Nick Elderfield Andrew Cooper Christopher Preston Roy Lambden James Evans Ra Hennessy

➤ John Corby (Chairman): Medina Waterfront Freehold Residents ➤ Ben Willows (Vice Chair): Sailing and Training Establishments ➤ Alex Minns: Isle of Wight Council (IWC) ➤ Neil Oliver: Cowes Town Council ➤ Karl Love: East Cowes Town Council ➤ Mark Slawson: Red Funnel Group ➤ Mike Townsend: Marina Operators ➤ Daniel Jehan: Cowes Town Waterfront Trust ➤ Kate Kirby: Business Associations ➤ Giles Peckham: Cowes Clubs & Classes Association

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS & STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

➤ Laurence Mead: Cowes Week Ltd ➤ Peter Jackson: Medina Combined Clubs ➤ Martin Nott: Shipyards and Wharf Operators (Cowes) ➤ Rob Stewart: Shipyards and Wharf Operators (East Cowes) ➤ Ian Bayliss: Commercial Vessel Operators ➤ Bob Holt: Commercial Fishermen and Water Taxis ➤ Mark Southwell: Cowes RNLI

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS & STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

Web: COWESHARBOURCOMMISSION.CO.UK/ADVISORY_COMMITTEE Contact: CHAC@COWES.CO.UK

ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018

cowesharbourcommission.co.uk

HARBOUR MASTER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S ANNUAL SUMMARY

• Capt. Stuart McIntosh

HARBOUR SAFETY AND SECURITY

➤ Overriding objective: Promote and

deliver a safety first culture and manage enforcement responsibilities

➤ Local Notices to Mariners

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➤ Patrol Officers

• Improved reporting

➤ Leisure incidents

• Speeding and wash

➤ Commercial incidents

HARBOUR SAFETY AND SECURITY

➤ Security

• Harbour wide CCTV installed

➤ Pilotage

• 323 ships in 2017

➤ Emergency planning

• Drills and training

➤ Designated Person

• Capt. Peter Jackson (RN)
• Capt. Martin Phipps MBE

(previous Harbour Master at Port of Southampton)

CHAIN FERRY / FLOATING BRIDGE AND SAFETY

➤ Safety of navigation and open harbour:

priority and statutory duty

➤ ISSUE: Reduction in navigable depths

and clearance over chains

➤ CHC flagged issue at design phase ➤ CHC formal objection to IWC ➤ IWC acknowledge and take

responsibility for chain clearance issue

➤ CHC pledge to continue assisting IWC ➤ IWC / CHC agreed “summer season” operation plan:

• Chain Ferry suspended and replaced by passenger ferry on spring

mid ebb tide to low water

➤ IWC commitment to proactive resolution

RED FUNNEL FREIGHT VESSEL LAY-BY BERTH AT EAST COWES

➤ Red Funnel ‘freight only’ vessel

coming into service spring 2019

➤ Plans for safe operation and

lay-by berth in progress

➤ Lay-by berth to be located to

north and inside current Red Funnel East Cowes berth

ONE TEAM - ONE NAME

Marine Services Review

COWES HARBOUR SERVICES

➤ BOATYARD

• Increase in turnover
• Site improvements

➤ COMMERCIAL

• Multi-disciplinary afloat

team

• Emergency response

capability

➤ STORAGE

• Cowes Harbour Storage
• Boat Store

COWES HARBOUR SERVICES

➤ MOORINGS

• Survey of annual mooring

holders

• Investment into river and

event moorings

➤ FUEL BERTH

• All-tide deep water
• Review of fuel berth
• perations and location

SHEPARDS MARINA

➤ SITE IMPROVEMENTS ➤ RIBS AND DRY SAILING ➤ APPRENTICESHIPS

• Port Operative Apprentice

➤ EVENTS & REGATTAS

• Sugar Store annual growth

hosting events

• Dragon Edinburgh Cup
• JHAV: Cowes at Shepards
• Little Britain (LBCC)

KINGSTON WHARF

➤ INDEPENDENT MARINE

TRADES

• RIB and boat building,

marine electronics and, engineering, sail making

➤ WHARFAGE

• Isle of Wight Fuels facility
• Isle of Wight Aggregates

consolidation at Medina Wharf

• Lease open for 1.5 acres

prime waterfront land

ROBUST FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN CHALLENGING MARKET

➤ T

urnover: up by 2% to £3.1m

➤ Expenditure: up by 3% to £2.6m ➤ Operating surplus: down by 5% to £527k = positive cash flow of

circa £400k

➤ Investment:

• Harbour wide CCTV
• Boat mover, and dock repairs at Kingston Wharf

➤ Annual Accounts on CHC website:

• cowesharbourcommission.co.uk

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

➤ Successful delivery of CHC’s Strategic Plan 2016-2021,

ensuring harbour facilities, services and growth are maintained for future generations, is dependent on the Commission continuing to deliver robust financial performances

➤ Surpluses are reinvested back into the harbour for the benefit

• f all stakeholders

STAKEHOLDER BENEFITS AND DIVIDEND PROJECTS

➤ Investment towards delivery of Outer Harbour Project ➤ Research into sedimentation management and development

• f Medina Estuary Sustainable Maintenance Dredging

Management Plan

➤ Water taxis stakeholder subsidy ➤ Isle of Wight Estuaries Partnership ➤ Apprenticeship programme ➤ Destination Cowes funding member

£204,000 stakeholder benefits funded in 2017

PROGRESS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE COST-EFFECTIVE DREDGING

➤ Discussion document and options

for dredging stakeholders by Dr Rob Nunny

➤ Benefits: cost efficiencies and more

environmentally sustainable dredging

➤ Dredging stakeholder meetings

planned to discuss options

➤ Medina Estuary Baseline Document

CRUISE SHIP INITIATIVE

➤ Direct marketing with

Destination Cowes and Visit Isle of Wight

➤ Promoting Cowes as unique

port-of-call to luxury cruise market

➤ Aim: Increase business to

Cowes and Island

➤ In progress: Bespoke

shoreside tours and experiences for cruise guests

➤ Target market: Smaller, exclusive 5-7 star luxury cruise ships ➤ Shoreside Cowes / IW: Enhance offer to cruise guests

FUTURE OF SHIPBUILDING AND MARINE EMPLOYMENT

➤ Aluminium Marine Consultants

(AMC) building will be demolished first quarter of 2019

➤ Wight Shipyard Co. (WSC)

Columbine building occupancy expires in May 2019

➤ NO CURRENT MARINE SITES /

FACILITIES DELIVERABLE WITHIN REQUIRED TIMELINE

Vital for the future harbour and Island economy

CURRENT SITUATION:

FUTURE OF SHIPBUILDING AND MARINE EMPLOYMENT

➤ CHC-led stakeholder group

• IWC, CHC, WSC / AMC, Red Funnel

➤ Communications with MP Bob Seely ➤ Formal letter and proposal to Homes

England (previously Homes and Communities Agency)

➤ WSC / AMC concerns raised with

Homes England and East Cowes developer

Vital for the future harbour and Island economy

CHC ACTIONS TO DATE:

INTERLINKED STRATEGIC MARINE EMPLOYMENT SITES

• 1. Medina Yard
• 2. Kingston Marine Park
• 3. Kingston Wharf
• 4. Venture Quays

1 2 3 4

2 1 4 3

• 1. MEDINA YARD - HARRISON TRUST PLANNING APPLICATION

➤ Change of use from marine

employment

• Best all-tide deep water access

➤ Loss of marine industry and jobs ➤ Deliverability

• Concerns commercially unviable
• Risk site sterilised for years

CHC BASIS FOR OBJECTION:

• 1. MEDINA YARD APPLICATION APPROVED

➤ Phases 1 (red) and 4 (blue)

to be delivered in parallel

➤ Marine employment space

(phase 4) requires full planning permission before any works start

➤ CHC commitment to

continue working with all parties

1. 4.

• 2. KINGSTON MARINE PARK - WHIPPINGHAM

➤ In process of acquisition by IWC from Homes England ➤ Challenges: MMO consent - Financial viability - Delivery timescale

• 3. CHC KINGSTON WHARF

➤ Opportunity for traditional

cargo wharf or marine-based employment

➤ Prime waterfront storage land ➤ 1.5 acres aggregate site ➤ 60 metres river wharf ➤ All-tide deep-water access ➤ IWC indicated applications for

change of use to be viewed favourably

• 4. VENTURE QUAYS: VICTORIA QUAY MARINA & HARBOUR WORKS

➤ Current position - Section 106

and Full Planning issued in May

➤ Engagement and pledge

commitment by developer

➤ Unconditional agreement and

funding deadline of 31st July

➤ CHC highlighted WSC / AMC

• situation. Seeking extension of
• ccupancy beyond May 2019

➤ CHC has considered Island

contingency delivery option

“CHC commitment to working in

partnership to save shipbuilding, marine industry and jobs on the Island.

• Cowes Harbour Commission

Q&A

The Commissioners welcome your questions