URGENT!!! URGENT!!! URGENT!!!
Meeting of EDDC Executive Board 15 November 2006 when Seaton will be sold down the river
Please
EVERYONE WHO LOOKS AT THIS BLOG: LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT NOW :
http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/eb_151106_item18.pdf
The Executive Board of EDDC will discuss whether the Council should enter into a formal relationship with the developer and his plans for the Seaton Regeneration Area. You will see in this report (page 9 - Loss of Bed space capacity) the following 2 sentences (my capitals but otherwise a direct quote):
"The Gateway Visitor Centre and the expansion of Seaton Marshes is an attempt to put in place a tourism infrastructure that will boost visitors to the area and increase spending, making the area more sustainable in the long run. IT MAY BE THAT BEDSPACE CAPACITY WILL COME FROM BEYOND THE IMMEDIATE AREA OF SEATON, indeed it is hoped that the Gateway Centres will have a positive impact on the vistor economy of the whole of East Devon.
It is confirmed in this document that there will be no replacement for the Youth Club, no community building, no tourism land on the site. What is being offered iinstead s a Town Centre Manager (no funding found yet but East Devon would provide 50% of the salary) and £70,000 towards a study of a "Market Destination Strategy for Seaton and the Jurassic Coast". (Note, not for Seaton - for Seaton AND the Jurassic Coast).
And that's it folks - apart from EDDC pocketing the money for some land on the marshes that the developers currently own, and the developers making a contribution towards a Visitors Centre and moving the Tramway, that's it.
IF YOU CAN GO TO THE KNOWLE ON WEDNESDAY NEXT WEEK at 5.30 pm CAN YOU EMAIL ME URGENTLY ON axevalleyrocks@yahoo.co.uk
PLEASE CONTACT ME - WE NEED TO GET A LARGE CONTINGENT OF SEATONIANS THERE OR WE ARE DOWN THE SWANNEE.
posted by Fighting for East Devon's future @ 4:44 pm
4 Comments:
And for more info on the "engineered by Harrogate, sold in Sidmouth" report and meeting see
here
And before anyone gets too excited about the new visitor centre from reading that - this is what agenda item 17 says "They involve significant risk as both capital projects and because of the track
record all over the country of visitor centres struggling to meet the on going revenue funding."
So the Council aren't convinced they can get visitors centres but they'll sell Seaton for a possibly non viable project! Wonder where the money would go when they decide it isn't viable after all?
Could the extra money go to Sidmouth perhaps?
anon 11:01
Even better would be Sidmouth gets the 450 houses and 2 sheds, Seaton gets the money...something porcine just blocked out the sunlight.
Actually, I find it a little odd that the "megamarsh" plan hasn't been handed to the acknowledged experts, the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust. It would have saved having 2 eddc rangers touring the country and WWT sites at our expense and long term would save their salaries as well...in exchange we'd get one of the UK's leading wetland management teams in.
Maybe they're being used in the game of "look Seaton we (eddc) are giving you a wildlife project that belongs to us (eddc)...just you have to have a few houses etc."
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