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No change at Sailortown
North Belfast News
St Joseph’s Church in the Belfast dockland is under the protection of the Environment Heritage Service as a Grade B listed building, yet, despite EHS assurances that regular inspections of the church are carried out and that a “package of urgent repairs” was to have been completed, little or nothing has changed as the waterfront church is allowed to fall inexorably into even greater disrepair.
The EHS says that it “continues to monitor the position and is in regular contact with the owners”, but nothing is being done.
Perhaps, even more remarkably, the development that is taking place on the Clarendon Dock side of St Joseph’s – private apartments – is being erected only inches from the outer wall of the church, with no provision of space left for repairs and no waterproofing of the wall done before building began.
The continuing neglect of St Joseph’s is there for all to see and flies in the face of statements made about it by both the owner (the Diocese of Down and Connor) and its legal protector (the EHS).
Both organisations must be seen to fulfil their legal obligations to
St Joseph’s.
I look forward to a speedy explanation of the continuing state of affairs in the light of the danger to the building and the seven year hiatus that has caused it such damage.
Gerry Gallagher
Chairman,
Save St Joseph’s Campaign
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