Belle Toute Light House - Where has all the money gone ?
Why after over 25 year has nothing been done with the Devonshire baths ?
Update
At last! diggers move in at baths
WORK has finally begun at the notorious Devonshire Baths site.
Rok Property Solutions, which took over the building from Llewellyn when it bought the Eastbourne-based company back in August for £16 million, has sold the Compton Road site as part of a £4.5 million property deal.
There had been complaints from neighbouring residents over the years that the site had filled up with water and attracted rodents and insects. But Llewellyn said it wanted to wait until it was economically sound to develop the site. Rok chief executive Garvis Snook hinted that development would soon begin on the baths when the company took over in the summer .'It is a very valuable piece of land to be just sat there. I don't like assets that don't do anything.' Rok revealed it had sold the site at the beginning of the year and a spokesman said work would begin 'very soon'. And this week builders have moved into the Compton Road site to start redevelopment. Rok is not yet able to say which company has bought the site or what its plans are. But a spokesman for the company said the plans will soon be revealed.
Why is Eastbourne Marina not responsible for the erosion of the beach at Pevensey Bay and why did Eastbourne Council allow the clause to be dropped from the contract ? (what has happen to all the money paid by residents on the marina site)
Slight of hand, Incompetence or something else ?
Why was the Pevensey Bay beach replenishment clause dropped from the original Eastbourne Marina contract ?
Slight of hand, Incompetence or something else ?
Why is a Councillor actively pursuing six lofty apartment blocks at the Marina site ?
Eastbourne's planners appear to be a pushover in some quarters, especially with large powerful developers, as is the case when Redrow applied for planning approval for six lofty apartment blocks. The planner were happy to demonstrate again that South Cliff Tower is not the only ugly folly they are prepared to inflict upon Eastbourne and the surrounding area. As usual the planning department who has no fear in attacking the small businessman or individual, is running away from confronting a large corporation legal department.
As like the white cliff tower, the steel frame for these new blocks has already permanently changed the skyline view from pevensey bay, and this is the same council who complain for months and months about the colour of some green roof tiles that could not be seen from the road, only by apparently looking out of some attic window.
Eastbourne Planners have struck before
Eastbourne Park: The cost of draining and maintaining the site was never considered, before the scheme finally died
Beach Head Visitors Centre: A possible sprawling tourist centre on the Downlands
Eastbourne Harbour: Now a piecemeal building site, waiting for a disaster to happen