Decision details

A report providing a further update from August’s meeting of the Harbour Board on ongoing initiatives to ensure compliance with the Port Marine Safety Code was considered by Members.

Discussion focused on the potential implications, such as legal obligations and maintenance costs, of transferring pier management of smaller piers to groups who had expressed an interest in taking them over in order to run them as community enterprises.  It was confirmed to Members that this could be explored in future developments.

Decision

The Harbour Board noted the report including the planned next steps;

a)    the publication of the Safety Management System (SMS) document on the Council’s website has taken place and work on compilation of appendices to the SMS document for main piers and harbours will continue thereafter;

b)    once documentation has been produced for the main piers and harbours, a similar exercise will be carried out for the less strategic ports;

c)    follow-up User Group meetings will be arranged for the end of this calendar year; and

d)    meetings are to be arranged with users of Dunoon Pier (Waverley Trust and Argyll Ferries) to formalise the user agreement.

(Reference: Report by Executive Director of Development and Infrastructure Services dated 10 November, submitted)