re: WISH YOU WERE HERE: Animal Farm, the planning officer report and the local authority that must be held to account. Decision Day for the Beach Tavern site
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Dear Sir/Madam,
With what looks like the development on the old Beach Tavern Site gaining planning approval for the plans which are proposed, is anyone aware of, or indeed has anyone from the Parish Council approached Wealden District Council regarding the disruption, noise, construction traffic, airborne dust particles and associated construction detritus that will be apparent once/should this proposal go ahead?
Is anyone aware of any concessions that Wealden DC will be offering, if any at all during what will probably be a yearlong plus construction period? Or will we just be expected to pay our standard rate of council tax for this inconvenience?
I am not against this proposal entirely and fully understand the need for more housing locally but I am suspicious that these apartments are not being built with the intention of accommodating local citizens.
I respect that the site badly needs development and I don’t really feel the issue here is the amount of flats in the proposal or it’s storey height, it’s the Architecture itself which is doubtful in my opinion. It’s a Stark looking, modernistic block of mainly white modern polymers, plastics and other futuristic high performance materials which just does not blend in to what is largely a brick-built village high street.
It would blend in at the harbour alongside the Yacht Club but stand out like a sore thumb in Pevensey Bay. Brick built and a more conventional look would help it’s profile vastly.
Yours sincerely,
Roy Jeive
