Decision details

Following the summer consultation with residents for the Seafront Strategy 2050, reporting the initial findings and seek recommendations to:

•            Continue with next stages of consultation

•            Develop a Seafront Stakeholder Group

•            Proceed with an initial funding bid to the National Lottery Heritage Funding.

(Key decision):

(1) To note the key findings from the public consultation undertaken in summer 2024, which provides public opinion on the future of Eastbourne seafront.

(2) Agreement to undertake further engagement exercises on options through stakeholder workshops

(3) To support an application to the National Lottery Heritage fund to enable pipeline planning for assets and development to deliver local community heritage across Eastbourne.

(4) To support the establishment of a new Seafront Stakeholder Group comprising key partners to support the implementation of the evolving strategy.