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The brick buildings by the swing bridge

At the Swing Bridge Steering Group meeting yesterday the question of whether to demolish or preserve the brick sheds by the bridge was discussed. It was suggested that the Board of Trustees of the Faversham Society should be asked to express an opinion.

This will be considered at the next meeting of the Environment Committee and then at the August meeting of the Board of Trustees. Until the Board decides the Society's position on this any views expressed by Board Trustees are made in a personal capacity only.

Background

The buildings are not listed or mentioned in the Conservation Area Character Appraisal (see below).

"4.11. The steel road bridge across the creek dates from 1976 but is set onto older, more interesting, abutments of brick and stone. Hydraulic accumulators and a hand operated pump of 1878 still provide the means for lifting the bridge off its seatings, but the last vessel to pass through here was in 1993. The release of water through the sluices is still the all-important means of cleansing the navigational channel, but with the head of the creek steadily silting up the reducing volume of available water makes the flushing action progressively less effective. This crossing point, with its panoramic views up and down the creek, its sluice gates and its old brick and stone abutments, continues to be a place of special appeal."

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July 14, 2016

Swing Bridge