Weymouth RNLI station set for revamp
It's aimed at making the building more 'user-friendly'
Weymouth's RNLI lifeboat station is to get a revamp to improve facilities for the crews and volunteers.
The changes are designed to make the building more ‘user-friendly.’
The RNLI says the changes will 're-unify the main lifeboat station and extension' there.
Among the changes will be a new internal staircase, with some windows and doors replaced, the existing main entrance doors swapped with new but slightly wider units.
In a supporting letter to Dorset Council the RNLI said:
“Access is to be improved through the building. Key elements of consideration for this application are the widening of the rationalisation of the main entrance door’s widths and providing a new internal building regulation- compliant staircase from the ground floor to first floor that will be housed within a new extension.
“To the rear of the building at first floor, an existing single door opening onto a terrace is proposed to be widened along with the adjacent window being enlarged in height to provide more natural light into the proposed first floor Crewroom area.”
The lifeboat station was constructed in 1868, rebuilt in 1924 with a later single storey off-shot extension to the west, a further 1980’s extension, and the floating pontoon for the larger lifeboat added in front of the building added in 2003.