The boat mentioned in the article is the Information Centre in the Bay. The building is in the shape of an upturned boat. It won an award for its design in the year 2000.

Many other villages and small coastal resorts of a similar size have literature in the shops that is a kind of welcome leaflet for people to take home (and they do). The shops and services club together to see that something professional is produced. It is exactly what we need for Pevensey Bay.

One of the key purposes behind Bay Life is to support business activity in the area, and to promote the Bay. All the public houses, restaurants, shops and services and every single other business aiming to attract customers to the Bay is in the same boat (obviously).

The point being made is that Pevensey Bay has some unique features which should be more widely recognised and promoted and that such activity could be shared and co-ordinated.

These are acutely difficult times. There is very little evidence of any description that the demographics of the Bay have changed in the last three years or that a misunderstanding of those demographics was behind the failure of the tenancy at the Beach Tavern. What precisely is the point being made?

What has changed over the last three years is the economic circumstances both locally and nationally (obviously).

Those of us in business experience it every day of our lives, as did Stephan, as he publicly and honestly acknowledged following the closure of the Beach Tavern.

I am sure that the advice to any potential leaseholder of the Beach Tavern that they should buy a decent calculator will be of immense value.

Simon
editor, Bay Life

In spite of searching to find the statement again, so that we can publish his full response, we have been unable to locate it. We are making the assumption that the statement has been removed, although we are not clear why this would have been the case.

The points made in the statement (from memory), were answered, and a full retraction given over all the specific points that he made.

If the statement is put back up again, we will, as promised, give Stephan an opportunity to have his full unedited say, and we will carry his statement verbatim.

We are waiting to see if this happens. Because of the sensitivity of the situation, and his own situation, we are simply waiting until he makes known what he wants said and how he wants to say it.

He will be given the opportunity to make the statement in any way that he chooses and it will be published in full.

If the statement does not become available, we will then make our own approach to Stephan to give him the opportunity to say whatever he wants to say.

We will provide him with the space to make that full statement, and again, anything that he wants to say, will be published in full.

Simon
editor, Bay Life.