PAY AND DISPLAY: THE GREAT DEBATE
WHY WE MUST SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS
1066 AND ALL THAT
Two things spring to mind here.
1. People will stop coming to Pevensey Bay by car ie the people who drive up to the village to shop, because too far to walk if they are not as fit as they were when young, will carry on driving and do their shopping at the supermarket.
It will also deter visitors.
and 2. People may park “illegally” in the Church car park (St Wilfrid’s) and then do their shopping. (When the small free car park in Little Common became Pay and Display local shoppers began parking in the Church car park so when people who were using the church hall for such things as art classes, they would have difficulty parking because the spaces were taken up by people doing their shopping.)
It also occurs to me to wonder whether the free car park in North Road will become Pay and Display? and whether the free period between October and March in the Sea Road car park will be removed making it payable all year round?
—Jan Barron, 16 October 2017
