Route Partnership admits to exhibition photomontage error
4/3/09In response to a formal complaint from the Friends of Penzance Harbour the Route Partnership has admitted that a key part of their January pre-planning exhibition “was in error”.
The photomontage in question (“View of proposals from next to the war memorial”) was important because it showed the sand of Battery Rocks beach intact after completion of the development when in fact the beach will be buried underneath the freight depot and passenger terminal.
The Friends of Penzance Harbour pointed out the misleading nature of the photomontage during the exhibition and the Route Partnership had an opportunity to remove the picture but chose not to, allowing many additional visitors to be misled by its content. Indeed the misleading picture is still on the Route Partnership web site at the time of writing despite their assertion that it “has since been amended”.
This is the second time that the Route Partnership has had to revise a key part of their January exhibition. In February they admitted that the development would indeed be located on the “Holy Headland” from which Penzance gets its name, after including in their exhibition a board that claimed this was a “myth”.
An overwhelming majority of the visitors to the exhibition used the feedback forms to express their opposition to the Route Partnership scheme. It now seems likely that a good number of those who expressed their support for the scheme did so having been misled by the exhibition’s contents.
Copy of original complaint to Cornwall County Council : download pdf | view pdf
Photomontages on the Route Partnership web site.