Our meeting gets good press coverage in View from Seaton

Today's View from Seaton (free at many local outlets) has full coverage of our meeting at Winston's last week (for which we must thank the licencees for allowing us to have the room free of charge).

Latest is that Seaton Development Trust has decided to have a public meeting about the WHOLE development site on

Wednesday 18 October

2006

at 7pm in Seaton Town Hall

All welcome. If you have a view (any view) on the development be sure to attend to make it known.

As part of the TOWN DESIGN GROUP, I am currently working with others on the group on an exhibition to be held some time in November to try to find out from Seaton residents how they would like the new development (whatever it is) to look in order to write a Town Design Statement. This has been done for most other areas in East Devon and is meant to help developers and planners (!) to know what local people want in their towns. This is about buildings, street furniture, lighting, roads - all those things that make a difference to how an area looks. If you have a view on how things should look (in the regeneration area) or the rest of the town, feel free to comment here. (And if you have any specific skills in this area, please do get in touch with me, we are always on the lookout for expert advice).

We are particularly interested in the views of YOUNG PEOPLE in the town about the loss of facilities on the regeneration site. We know that many young people don't participate in what goes on in the town because they think that their views will not be taken into account. However, if we don't hear what those views are we can't take them into account at all.

Lyme Regis has a very young (20s) Town Councillor - just a thought!

We also now have a Youth Council in Seaton which is busy working on all sorts of things - particularly thinking about events like the very successful one in the Skateboard Park in the summer. They are also working on their comments about the Regeneration area.

So, PLEASE, if you are young (however you define this) or middle aged or senior (I choose my word carefully!) or anything in between, use this blog as your forum.