The row between Teesworks Ltd and its’ port operator neighbour continues, as PD Ports criticises the company for launching an appeal after losing a legal case over access rights, saying the continued “unnecessary legal action does not show the Tees Valley in a good light.
A letter sent on Friday 19 April from PD Ports’ Group Property Director Michael McConnell to tenants of the fishermen’s huts on the South Gare breakwater, and seen by The Yorkshire Post, provides an update on the legal case in which they successfully defended their access rights across the former Redcar steelworks site.
and Teesworks Ltd, with “further reimbursement to follow.” “A public-private partnership,” the letter states, “which was apparently set up to attract inward investment continuing with what has been shown to be totally unnecessary legal action does not show the Tees Valley in a good light.” A letter written from Lord Houchen to PD Ports CEO Frans Calje in April 2019 is attached to highlight the public sector’s initial position before deciding to launch legal action two years later.
dated February 2021, only two weeks before papers bringing the legal action were filed at the High Court, in which barrister Richard Matthews KC writes “the Corporation does not dispute” rights of access existed across two of three access routes successfully defended by PD Ports in court. Another leaked document seen by The Yorkshire Post shows an agreement between
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