Harbour Road properties and current businesses

Re the posting below: the Harbour Road properties which make up the Riverside Works were deliberately excluded from the Signet Plan and that area was left blank in their proposal - in fact, for this reason, many people thought that this was the holiday village area and so assumed that it would remain.

I would imagine that they were excluded so that working out how to relocate the businesses there would not hold up the development - it could take many months or even years to work out what to do with these businesses, depending on what each owner wants, the sort of leases they have and how much it would cost to buy them all out. I assume that the redevelopment can go on around this area and it can be dealt with later or not at all.

As regards the businesses fronting the other part of Harbour Road (from the Underfleet to Beach Road) these were never included in the regeneration area. Quite why this was so I have no idea but presumably it is anticipated that these businesses will sink or swim according to what gets built.

It would be good to hear from anyone who owns a business in either area how they see what is happening. We have heard from the Licensed Victuallers what they think and from at least one business in Seaton on this site, but the rest of the business community seems to be very quiet about exactly what they think.

Several business owners seem quite sure that nothing will be built and everything will go on much as it always has. Maybe they are right, but it could be a big shock to some of them if they are wrong.