1.Supermarket

I have an issue with the recommendation that Rye needs more retail units in the form of a supermarket. Any proposal to put a new supermarket outside Rye's current retail area will have major repercussions on the vitality and livelihood of Rye.

A new small supermarket in, say, the High Street or Cinque Ports Street, would be fine. It would draw in people for the specialist shops that still exist in Rye, and give healthy competition to the current supermarket.

If a large supermarket with a lot of parking were to be allowed within the outskirts of Rye an already precarious economy (as acknowledged by the statistics in the Rother presentation) would probably go into steep decline. So many of the small businesses depend on footfall, and this would decline in these circumstances.