illustration: Jan Barron, Bay Hotel 2o17
A second meeting of the Timberlaine Road Residents Association took place last night (Thursday 27 September), this time moving from the Castle Inn Public House to the Bay Hotel.
Following the first meeting back in August, the association saw success again, with 19 people attending the event.
One woman told Bay Life “The Bay Hotel was good and we were even given free cups of tea and coffee”.
The association that was formed in opposition to what is being seen as the ‘overdevelopment’ of the mobile home site that is based next door to the road has widened their profile .
The profile now includes new objectives similar to a neighbourhood watch style approach to some aspects life in the road.
In addition, at a third meeting to be held at the end of January 2019, we understand that local “Bobby of the Bay Life Beat” retired Police officer, Paul Smith, is to be invited to give one of his entertaining talks titled ,’ What do we do now there is now no Bobby on the Beat”.
Paul who was a bobby on the beat in Brighton for 24 years, now lives with wife Annie, in Eastbourne.
They are regular visitors to Pevensey Bay every week, having lived in Beachlands, which they describe as their ‘first love’.
The residents association is waiting to see the outcome with regard to the latest development proposals by Park Holiday Home UK, owners of the mobile home site.
The association lodged a strong objection to any further developments with Wealden District Council.
The new association is being seen as some kind of local template for other ‘micro-associations’ in the community.
Bay Life understands the body, in their articles of association, aims ‘to support the wellbeing of the residents that live in Timberlaine Road in Pevensey Bay and the immediate environs” and “to support the objectives of the organisation in relation to communications between residents with the goal of enhancing further the shared voice of people that live in the road and environs.”
A second woman who attended the meeting told Bay Life, “a chap stood up and said, these meetings are good because people get to know the names of their neighbours and in some cases talk to each other for the first time, this in itself has to be a good thing.
