Wealden District Councillor, Dianne Dear, has called in plans for a further 46 static caravans at Park Holidays UK site in Pevensey Bay
Dianne, who has been a Wealden District Councilor for 16 years, told the Pevensey Bay Journal this morning (16 February) “I called in the decision because I didn’t agree there should be any more vans on the site, problems with parking noise etc. and overdevelopment”.
The planning committee at Pevensey Parish Council has also raised multiple objections to the proposal by Park Holidays UK to site a further 46 static caravans at the site.
The meeting was held by the Planning Committee of Pevensey Parish Council on 5 February. The objections were proposed by Cllr Lowton, seconded by Cllr Scott. All agreed.
In the objections, the council says:
WD/2018/2544/MAJ
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Pevensey Bay Holiday Park (Formerly Martello Beach Caravan Park),
Eastbourne Road, Pevensey Bay
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Use of land for the stationing of 46 No. Static Holiday caravans and associated facilities.
The Planning Committee objected the plans on the bases of:
- That the development has a detrimental impact on the open feel of the area.
- Whilst it’s within the overall licence of the 350 homes, the caravans on site represents an over development on that part.
- It has a negative impact on the visual amenity.
- The increased parking in the local roads would have an adverse effect on local residents due to insufficient parking on the caravan park
- The park itself will not allow vans to park on site causing them to park on the local roads.
- It would present an increase d flood risk with potential to cause harm to people and property
- It represents an unacceptable level of harm to living conditions of the occupiers of Timberlaine Road, in respect of parking and additional noise and being overlooked by the proposed development.
- It would cause an increase to the levels of traffic coming in and out of the site and potentially cause risk to those roads users and other road users of the A259 as the entrance/exit to the site is in adequate with no traffic control measures
There are currently (February 15), 12 local objections to the proposal, many of a vociferous nature.
Park Holidays UK has argued that the proposal will offer jobs that are “sustained, both directly in the park business and indirectly in the locality”. They have also suggested that “a market is created for local goods and services thereby supporting local businesses and public transport services”.
In a third argument put forward owners explain that with holiday home operators “there is involvement in local causes and educational projects”.
The Pevensey Bay Journal is to scrutinise these claims in relation to the local economy and the claim made by Park Holidays that “there is involvement in local causes and educational projects”.
Simon Montgomery, editor of the Journal said “In the appendix to the proposal the notion that Park Holidays has created a market for local goods and services is meaningless without any reference to what is happening in Pevensey Bay, where is this market? What Park Holidays have done is create a market for themselves on the site with all the facilities and services that they offer, when, if ever, for example has the company, promoted one of the public houses orf cafes or hairdressers in the Bay? Are we expected to accept this nonsense at face value?
He added, “the suggestion that the company may be involved in local causes and educational projects here is also open to ridicule. I am not aware that they are involved in any local cause or educational projects in Pevensey Bay at all and to suggest otherwise is a demonstration of how much respect the company has for this community, They have no respect at all.”
Dianne Dear is the publisher of Bay Life online and the Pevensey Bay Journal in print. She has been a Wealden District Councilor for 16 years.
