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Seaside Towns on the Move (and it’s nothing to do with coastal erosion!)

Seaside Towns on the Move (and it’s nothing to do with coastal erosion!) Dr. Gareth Potts Director of Research and Policy, BURA. St. Anne’s on Sea, Fylde Victorian Garden Town – good century of success Tourism decline Late 1990s – 25% town centre buildings vacant

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Seaside Towns on the Move (and it’s nothing to do with coastal erosion!)

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  1. Seaside Towns on the Move (and it’s nothing to do with coastal erosion!) Dr. Gareth PottsDirector of Research and Policy, BURA

  2. St. Anne’s on Sea, Fylde • Victorian Garden Town – good century of success • Tourism decline • Late 1990s – 25% town centre buildings vacant • 2005 won BURA Best Practice Award • Design-led project (mixed modern designs with Victorian architecture) • Shops / car parking / public space and art • £4m from RDA, EH and Lancashire County Developments Ltd. – levered £20m of private • Also inspired BURA…….

  3. Inaugural Seaside Conference • Scarborough March 2007, 2 days • Study Tours • Chair, LGA Special Interest Group on Coastal Issues • National Piers Society • Master-classes (tourism, HMOs) • Best practice • Seaside economy - Fothergill, NEF, Gordon Marsden (President of BRADA, Chair All-Party Group of Seaside MPs) • Launched DCLG Select Committee report • Coastal Towns – 2 months for Govt. to respond • Pier Design competition for C21 – Clevedon exple.

  4. Report Conclusions and Recommendations • Better understanding needed • (DCLG) x-Dept Working Group on Coastal Towns • Costs of placing vulnerable people (> just housing) • Consider national coastal tourism strategy (Wales) • > sharing best practice on economic diversification • > affordable housing / HMO management by L.A.s • Link coastal defences to regeneration • Link funding for public realm to visitor numbers • RDAs lead sharing of best practice on coastal towns • and..

  5. “We recommend that the Government supports a permanent network to facilitate the spread of best practice in coastal town regeneration” (para. 84).

  6. BURA Seaside Network I • Voice – respond to DCLG report (not Core Cities) • Networking • Hastings launch dinner • Margate visit / N. West Tour (31st Oct / 2nd Nov) • Seaside Network Conference (Rhyl Sept 19th/20th) • Quarterly ‘The Seagull’ newsletter • Mail-base (imminent) • Research (possibility)

  7. BURA Seaside Network II • 62 paid member organisations so far • 300 contacts on the database • Councils / RDAs / developers / business / VCS • Led by Derek Harding [Margate Renewal P’tnership] • Patrons – Wayne Hemingway the first • Cost - £50 pa in the first year gareth@bura.org.uk

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