Now if I read these plans correctly, Seaway Leisure (Turnstone Estates) are going to replace the current Seaway Car Park which Southend Borough Council sold a long term lease to Turnstone Estates for £1.00 four years ago provided a full planning application was submitted and approved by the 10th December 2018. The plans which have not yet been approved and were actually submitted on the 7th December 2018, this obviously now breached the original agreement.
The Seaway Car Park has an existing capacity of 661 and serves the existing visitors to the seafront, High Street, nightclubs, and golden mile. But the new car park Seaway Leisure are proposing has only has a capacity of 555 which if my maths is correct is over 100 less car parking spaces and no where for coaches to park.
So where are the additional 500 proposed new employee's, the guests to the 80 room hotel, the visitors to the 11 screen cinema, the visitors to the 20 Lane Hollywood Bowl, the visitors to the indoor Golf, the visitors to the indoor climbing wall, the visitors to the gym, the visitors to all the new restaurants etc, going to park?
Don't tell me SBC are going to open up the old gas works site further along the seafront and make that a new car park to compensate. I am aware this is currently being built but it is only going to be temporary for a maximum of 5 years while development "opportunities" are explored.
What happens after that?
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