Basis of ‘reptile study’ being undertaken by park holiday home company in Pevensey Bay being questioned by residents association
Signs explaining that a ‘reptile study’ is underway at the Park Home Holidays site in Pevensey Bay have been slammed by number of members of a new residents association as “bloody ludicrous nonsense”, and “yet another questionable ruse as part of a new money making gimmick to put up yet more caravans by the company that owns the mobile home site’.
Communications seen by the Pevensey Bay Journal leave little room for doubt about the level of concern and anxiety about Park Holidays UK being expressed by local residents.
We have also been approached by a number of members of the association and local residents in which the timbre of the conversation could best be described as ‘fierce opposition’.
The presence of the site in Pevensey Bay was established in 1948 ,and has provided generations of happiness to mobile home owners .
There are also clearly umbilical links between the site and the villagers, with many people migrating from being mobile home owners on the site to become residents in the vilage.
Having said that, the feeling that the site is now ‘overdevelped’ is one that appears to be widesperad across Pevensey Bay.
The mobile home site, still called Martello Beach by many residents in Pevensey Bay, has been the subject of local controversy in recent months.
The residents association titled ‘Timberlaine Road and environs” has seen significant support over the question of whether the site is now ‘overdeveloped’.
An application to see the site ‘season’ extended from 48 to 50 weeks is now under consideration by Wealden Council.
Some kind of tipping point appeared to have been reached in the summer when a giant screen was set up next the homes in Timberlaine Road with films for children shown.
The sound could be heard right across the adjoining roads.
As neighbours complained about the intrusion right into their Sunday, site receptionists explained that they ‘had a blanket licence” to show the films , altering their line later in the day, as the complaints stacked up to a more muted statement that “this was just a one off event”.
A total of 27 people attended the first meeting of the association, with much the same number attending the second meeting at the Bay Hotel.
The association is now planning a series of meetings to be held regularly, with talks by a number of East Sussex Fire Officers, retired policemen and other officials.
The view expressed in the articles of association that are a guide to the work of the new body is the intent to establish ‘more neighbourliness’ as well as a constant monitoring of ‘yet more development plans’ by the owners of the site, together with the pursuit of ‘meaningful dialogue’ with the owners.
In describing the reptile survey signs, one member of the association who asked not to be named, said “these signs are obviously false, if they were real they would identify the name of an approved organisation undertaking the survey and they do not, not a bit of it, the signs are really a pretence, just saying this way to yet more caravan development, coming soon, and you can all bugger off because you can not stop us”.
