Old Lydd Road is the main access road to Camber Sands, which is an important recreation facility for both local residents and for visitors and tourists from which many of the small businesses depend upon in terms of generating an income. Old Lydd Road is however, notoriously busy during summer months and suffers generally from a lack of off-street public parking space.

It is therefore, quite extraordinary and without justification that the Council should seek to allocate two of the most important public car parks for redevelopment as proposed in Policies CAM1 and CAM2. This would result in the unacceptable loss of 70 pay and display parking spaces on the site the subject of Policy CAM1 and a massive 170 pay and display parking spaces on the site the subject of Policy CAM2, resulting in the very significant loss of 40 public parking spaces.

While reference is made to the use of an "existing overflow car park", this is wholly inadequate and would result in unjustified reduction in public parking provision. The fact that the central car park site is Council owned should not be a factor in allocating the land for redevelopment. Both these Policies should be deleted and the Council should instead consider opportunities to extend much needed public parking in the area to help relieve pressures for unauthorised roadside parking in Old Lydd Road, particularly during peak summer months.