Pier Group welcomes municipal focus
on waterfront planning
Port Hope’s Pier Group says that the municipality’s draft Strategic Plan, along with recent recommendations by the municipality’s Centre Pier Task Force, sets a positive course for revitalization of the waterfront …
Port Hope must act promptly on Centre Pier
The final report of the centre pier development task force opens the door to a revitalized waterfront in Port Hope. Port Hope council should endorse and implement the task force's recommendations promptly. …
Prompt action needed to implement Centre Pier Task Force recommendations
The Pier Group looks forward to seeing a municipal action plan to implement the recommendations of the recent Centre Pier Development Task Force Final Report …
Port Hope must cement Centre Pier development plans: task force
The time is now to make plans to guide future development on Port Hope's Centre Pier, said the Centre Pier Development Task Force chairman. …
Levelling pier buildings makes no sense, council hears
"Port Hope's centre pier is currently a fully serviced 11-acre industrial park with some useful industrial buildings and some that may be questionable," Rod Stewart said. It appears that council might be "accepting on our behalf a totally unserviced back filled field " …
Feds must ante up Centre Pier cash
Port Hope doesn't need another downtown park. What the community desperately needs is economic development, a project to enhance and add value to its tourism sector. And with its proximity to Port Hope's well-recognized heritage-designated downtown, the Centre Pier is the ideal spot for such a development. …
Councillor Burns speaks out against Centre Pier process
"I believe that in the case of the Centre Pier Task Force project, we have talked the talk, but we have not walked the walk," Burns said. …
Task force report wrong: Pier Group
Pier Group spokesperson Chris Wallace says the Task Force claims were revealed only in 11th hour meetings with Cameco and the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI), and that the report does not include any backup for these claims and does not name the sources at Cameco or PHAI. …
Port Hope council needs to petition Ottawa to save pier buildings
It would appear the real stumbling blocks to saving the historic pier buildings are the PHAI, its boss, the Government of Canada and municipal officials. …
Pier Group awarded funding for Environmental Assessment participation
PORT HOPE -- Port Hope resident Chris Wallace, on behalf of the Pier Group, has been awarded federal funding to participate in the Environmental Assessment (EA) of Cameco’s proposed Vision 2010. …
Port Hope pier buildings remain for now
PORT HOPE -- Port Hope council passed a new zoning bylaw for the municipality -- with an 'H' for holding on the centre pier. Mounting pressure from Port Hope's Pier Group appears to have made an impression on Mayor Linda Thompson. …
Removal of Centre Pier buildings part of EA
PORT HOPE —The fate of the Centre Pier buildings appears to be sealed, according to a release issued Wednesday by Cameco Corporation. …
Port Hope residents raise concerns over zoning bylaw
PORT HOPE -- Council approval of a new comprehensive zoning bylaw has been delayed after residents raised concerns at a public meeting on Jan. 19. …
Port Hope Harbour Commission holds first open meeting
PORT HOPE -- A small group of interested residents came out for the first open meeting of the commissioners of the Port Hope Harbour, on Jan. 13.
Port Hope Pier Group explores centre pier possibilities
PORT HOPE -- The Pier Group hosts a speaker's night on Nov. 19, to inform the public about its preservation plans for industrial buildings on Port Hope's Centre Pier. …
Pier Group presents speaker's night, community ideas workshop
Finding alternatives to demolishing the Centre Pier buildings is what the Pier Group is all about. To that end, they are hosting two events in November to explore ideas for adaptive re-use of the historic Centre Pier buildings on the Port Hope waterfront. …
Letters to the Editor – The Centre Pier opportunity
Re: Letter to the editor, "The Venice of the west, the Paris of the north", Oct. 30, 2009: Is the Centre Pier in Port Hope currently as beautiful as Lunenburg, Nova Scotia or Camden, Maine? Certainly not. Will it be as beautiful, when the clean-up is complete and the buildings are restored? Probably not. But these comparisons completely miss the point of the economic study prepared by Netgain Partners for the Pier Group and presented to Port Hope council Oct. 27. …
Pier Group report finds pier buildings a great opportunity for Port Hope
PORT HOPE -- A revitalization study of Port Hope's centre pier, which called the factories the greatest redevelopment opportunity in the municipality's history, was presented to council on Oct. 27. …
Letters to the Editor – Need ideas? Just ask
I was surprised to read in “Centre Pier report presented”, Oct. 28, that Doug Simpson of Netgain couldn't find anything similar to our Centre Pier Buildings (that had been restored) in Ontario. Possibly his search criteria was too narrow? I immediately thought of the Fergus Marketplace (on a river just like most of the centre pier). …
WATERFRONT: Group aims to sway Port Hope council
The existence of the Centre Pier buildings presents a great opportunity for Port Hope to create a unique waterfront environment for the recreational, cultural, educational and commercial benefit of its citizens, says Don Rumgay of the Pier Group. …
Pier Group is in it for the long haul
PORT HOPE -- It will be a long battle to preserve the heritage buildings of Port Hope's centre pier, Chris Wallace acknowledged. But the Pier Group is in it for the long term. …
Razing Port Hope centre pier buildings will require an environmental assessment
PORT HOPE — It’s not going to be easy to raze the buildings on Port Hope’s centre pier. That’s good news for The Pier Group, troublesome for Cameco, a challenge for the Port Hope Harbour Commission — and puzzling to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). …
Letter to the Editor – Time is now to address Port Hope zoning bylaw
The letter below was sent July 16 to Port Hope Mayor
Linda Thompson and members of council.
The Pier Group wishes to register its strong opposition to certain aspects
of the new draft zoning bylaw. 1) Rezoning of the Centre Pier: The proposed
rezoning of the pier is a step towards demolishing the pier buildings, and
directly contradicts those provisions of the Official Plan which require
council to protect the "cultural heritage assets of the community".
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Letter to the Editor – What's the rush of Port Hope Centre Pier rezoning?
Port Hope council is seeking to rezone the Centre Pier, changing it’s designation from “central commercial” to “open space”. This is a simple ploy to enable them to do away with the pier buildings without having to consider their heritage, historical or architectural value, much less any future potential uses. …
Port Hope Harbour Commission told to open meetings to public
PORT HOPE -- A serious blow to Port Hope Harbour Commission and its process of private, closed-to-the-public meetings came from an independent legal review this week. …
Letters to the editor – Pier buildings embody heritage standards
Buried in the letter written by Roy Cowan ("Useless monument," March 19) arguing rhetorically against the retention of buildings on the Centre Pier in Port Hope's harbour, we find all the best arguments in favour of at least giving their preservation some serious consideration. …
Letter to the Editor – Port Hope’s Centre Pier proposal
I read with interest Roy Cowan’s letter “Useless monument” of March 19. I’ll leave my thoughts on the ill-advised Port Hope town hall expansion to a later date. I do want to address the serious concerns raised about the Centre Pier. …
Letters to the Editor – Useless monument
Upon first reading Rod Stewart's letter "Premise ludicrous" in the March 10 issue of Northumberland Today.com,I thought it was somewhat of a vindication of my recent letter in which I was very critical of proposed plans for our beautiful Town Hall, and what I see as a lack of architectural harmony in many developments. I was, however, most disappointed when I saw the backhanded connection of Town Hall development with the Pier Group. …
Council should heed Pier Group’s advice
Port Hope is renowned for its heritage preservation. So why is the current council ignoring the calls of some 300 residents — including many of the same people who saved the Capitol Theatre, and currently sit or have sat on the ACO and LACAC — when it comes to the buildings located on the pier, which are slated for demolition, after the federal government remediates them during the low-level radioactive waste clean-up? …
Pier pressure building in Port Hope
PORT HOPE - A local heritage study that concluded the pier factories are an asset to Port Hope was presented to council on Tuesday, Jan. 20. …
The Pier Group has been working hard behind the scenes to save old industrial buildings on Port Hope's Centre Pier and presented its recently completed comprehensive study on Monday. The study will be presented again to Port Hope council Tuesday night. …
Letters to the Editor – Preserve the pier buildings
It is with extreme concern that I write to you regarding the present attitude of the council and harbour commission towards your plans for the pier. …
PORT HOPE - A newly-newly formed citizen’s committee thinks the old industrial buildings on Port Hope’s centre pier deserve a second chance. …
Council should reconsider tearing down pier buildings
A group of Port Hope residents are hoping to change the minds of their elected officials. The Pier Group, formed to stop the proposed demolition of century-old buildings on the Ward 1 centre pier, hopes council has a change of heart and will reconsider its decision to tear down the three industrial heritage buildings, as part of the Waterfront Master Plan, unveiled last month. …
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