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Wednesday, June 27 2012, 12:39PM
“The Banjo was closed for political reasons in 2006. The Eastern Prom is completely different story and was in a seriously bad way. Hence the need to close the promenade in 2006. The decking and beams had failed and were removed and new decking and transverse beams installed ..”
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Friday, June 29 2012, 10:27PM
“It looks and feels great.I am from the El Natural England movement but when I walked along the newly refurbished Promenade and the Banjo Level I was stopped from enjoying this wonderful outside experience because I was in the clothing that God had provided for me (plus some sandals, alittle like Jesus in a way).I was lead away by some petty minded Council official in a hat and day glow vest.Apart from that it looks great and is an asset to the Town.”
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Monday, July 02 2012, 3:59PM
“Well I know that the present Mayor takes a lot of flack in the press - the H & E being very pro Nick Bye - but Oliver has got this problem sorted. Under the previous administration the promenade, which needed repairs, festered behind fencing, growing weeks for five years. disgraceful for the sea front of a major resort.”
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“What a pleasure, together with hundreds of other strollers, to walk along the repaved promenade in Torquay today and, joy of joys, they have unfenced and re-opened both Banjo levels without so much as a jot of structural work apparent on or below either level.
The fencing off of this area as a knee-jerk reaction to a consultants report (not released) by the 'Elf'n'Safety zealots of the council was scandalous and deserving of contempt. It seems but a little strengthening plus the addition of anodes to counter concrete cancer in the supports was all that was needed to support thirty tons of new paving blocks.
Was it ever likely to collapse under the weight of a few pensioners pottering along?
£100k worth of fencing wasted.”