Yesterday I spotted an article written by a senior architect, Hayley Chivers, in the Architects' Journal (website) with a pun for a title, Pier Review, which does what it says on the label. I apologise for my late sharing (this was published just before Christmas), but not being an architect, 'tis not my usual reading matter. However, it says pretty much what many of us know even though we're not architects, so I'm sharing a couple of direct quotes below, and you can go to the article for the full review, which is well worth the read and is very pertinent indeed, good review Hayley, many thanks! 👍
"Yet almost as soon as the Stirling jury had, perhaps unwisely, declared it a ‘masterpiece of regeneration’, the charity that ran the structure went into administration and the People’s Pier was put up for sale. Rejecting a £477,000 crowdfunded bid* with accompanying five-year business plan, the administrators sold off the lottery-funded asset to Eastbourne hotelier Abid Gulzar, owner of the recently burnt-out Eastbourne Pier, for the princely sum of £60,000...
...the pier requires £70,000 every year to sustain the structural repairs alone. The current owner has reportedly spent only a fraction of that since taking it over..."
*Friends of Hastings Pier, although there was more finance available than just the crowdfunded money (blog).
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