Save Our Bathing Site event in West St Leonards, East Sussex, on January 25 2025

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Save Our Bathing Site event hosted by SOBS (Save Our Bathing Site), West St Leonards Community Team & Hastings Urban Design Group at West St Leonards Community Centre on January 25 2025.

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00:00Today, what we're trying to do is bring the ideas, the plans, the future developments

00:09possibly for this area, bring those to the people.

00:12So we're trying to bring it to the local community so they can come in and see everything that's

00:16available along here, and then make their own suggestions at the end of it.

00:20That's what our aim is, and we're really delighted so many people have turned up.

00:25It's been really, really good.

00:27The developer is looking to put in high-rise, high-quality development that is aimed more

00:34at out-of-towners and Airbnb.

00:36What we want to see is more social housing and more housing for people, professional

00:41people, to keep them in the area rather than losing them to somewhere else because they

00:44can't afford to live here.

00:47That's our aim.

00:48Our best scenario will be that housing is involved.

00:51That's what we really do need, but the right sort of housing, and what we want is still

00:56the links to the sea.

00:57This is the last possible area in the whole of the borough that can be used that's linked

01:04to the sea.

01:05We want to carry on that link.

01:06We want to bring the people down the promenade to our area and want them to enjoy the sea.

01:12So we're looking for things like shops, cafes, a link to movement along the cycle path, movement

01:19along the promenade.

01:22That's what we're aiming for.

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