Comment

Representation ID: 19346

Received: 30/01/2009

Respondent: Sea Space

The preferred strategy does not live up to the scale of change presaged. Mostly, it is small-scale interventions or proposals. Of particular concern is the town centre. It has been in gentle decline for a long time and, unless a more ambitious approach is adopted, it is difficult to see how it can gain benefit from the new population that is planned around the fringes of Bexhill. The danger will be that spending power will go to other centres outside of Rother. The LDF process should confront the issue and set out a mechanism to address it.