Planning Objection - Information and Advice Days 9 and 10 January 2007 Town Hall, Seaton
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There will be two days of advice and information about how to put in your planning objections to the Seaton Regeneration Area at Seaton Town Hall on
Tuesday 9 January 2007 10 am - 10 pm
Wednesday 10 January 2007 10 am - 10 pm
There will be a demonstration outside the Lyme Bay Holiday Village to protest at the loss of community facilities and tourist accommodation when it closes. This will take place at
11 am on
WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY 2007
fancy dress optional!
posted by Fighting for East Devon's future @ 10:00 pm
8 Comments:
The website is now up and running at www.seatonplan.info but I have problems viewing the whole of it on my screen.
I wouldn't worry - it's a puff job.
To get it on your screen, look up at the top of the document where you see the percentage of the document on the screen and keep changing it until it is low enough for you to see on your screen. Unfortunately, that will mean the print on the document will also decrease.
Now, surely that wasn't the idea?
To see the ‘View From’ having a cover of spin from Liatris was sad. It is done in such a deceptive way as to suggest that the development of Seaton is a foregone conclusion with the support of ‘View From’. In reality it is a simple advertisement fooling people into thinking the matter is decided. The whole idea of bolting a lot of houses and two retail buildings onto the existing Seaton will not solve years of neglect and piecemeal development. A vision that incorporates the old and the new is needed. The idea of creating all the new jobs – is that a net increase or will it lead to a lot of people loosing their jobs at the holiday camp and businesses suffering from a Tesco and Focus, and then those jobs being replaced by the Tesco and Focus so overall there will be no gain for Seaton?
I was born in Seaton and have lived here most of my life. Regeneration is all about the young – where they live, where they work and where they play. To turn Seaton into a thriving community once more, these factors need to be addressed. Affordable housing, self build sites like my parents had here (such as Wychall Park besides many others), part ownership; these would go someway towards giving the young somewhere to live. New industrial units, perhaps with accommodation above, would allow the entrepreneurial youth to realise their potential. An industrial unit for let in Seaton is seldom seen and this issue, with the large influx of people to the town with the many new houses, needs to be addressed. Finally give the town facilities to make the young want to stay – a swimming pool like we already have, a gym like we already have, a cinema like we used to have, spa facilities like we already have, squash courts like we used to have, allowing commercial fishing and tripping boats on the beach, etc. What about bringing a sporting ground into the centre of town as a focal point? Something that would be used and bring life to the town.
Personally I feel the developers have no imagination or long term interest in Seaton as a town and community. Their amateurish shortcomings have not even been addressed by asking the young of Seaton at the local schools, businesses, clubs and societies what they want. After all it is entirely about the young because they are the future.
One small point to add – the fill for the development area could never come from the river axe because a licence is needed if more than three tonnes are dredged as it is classed as contaminated material. The simple reason for this classification is that EDDC have allowed South West Water to have their sewage outlet in the middle of the river, so essentially what is considered silt is more than likely sewage, anybody who has walked through it at low tide will know that! This coupled with the run off from uncontrolled contaminated fills will surely upset a very sensitive ecosystem.
Many thanks Ms. Semple for continuing to bring the reality, rather than the spin, of these plans to light.
It's posts like the one above that keep me going when it gets tough and reminds me why I'm doing this. I agree with everything this poster says.tjil
Thanks - it is really good to know that people can see through the "smoke and mirrors".
Why dont they knock down the holiday village then build a 400 room plush hotel/ conference centre, alongside that a multi functional leisure centre and where the old warners is build a handfull of houses and a supermarket. Not being funny but there seems to be alot of drug and youth problem in Seaton resulting from the Grove surely better leisure activities would draw them away from what they are doing at the moment. Liatris plan has far too many housing.
To be fair, I don't think Seaton has a big problem compared to some parts of East Devon (particularly Exmouth). And as for a 400 bed hotel - the 100 bed hotels in Sidmouth are having to tout for business and some are failing, even the ones overlooking the sea. That was why hotels got made into nursing homes in Seaton (and Sidmouth) in the first place.
We need to cater for a different market - a changing market - people who have money but who want holidays with a difference, close to nature on the World Heritage Jurassic Coast. And let's not forget the "budget2 tourist - there aren't many places for them to go these days and despite what Liatris says, they do have money to spend when they go on holiday.
We could pull ourselves up by the bootstraps, no doubt - but not, it seems, with EDDC and Liatris in the driving seat. So we have to get this planning application kicked out and go back to the drawing board.
the market that is increasing in Devon is exactly the market catered for at Lyme Bay - older people. They want holidays on the flat and they like the atmosphere in Seaton. With the cycle route coming to Seaton and possibly a visitor's centre there will be more demand here for overnight accommodation. Some of that could be in the SUSTRANS terminus. Some could be part of a redeveloped holiday village designed to attract ecotourism and conferences. There is little conference accommodation in this area and less that is disabled friendly. The land covered by the village must still be earmarked for tourism uses.
People come to live here partly because this is a low crime area. My friends in Exmouth have far greater problems with disaffected youth and drug crime. Lose the kids few leisure facilities and we may have more crime and especially more vandalism.
the 724 people in the Town Hall was actually a few more. I noticed when I came in that some people missed the ticketing system and weren't counted. It was very busy and the person at the desk just couldn't keep up. So you're looking at a minimum of 750 objectors plus the helpers.
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