Sidmouth Rockfish one step closer with signing of toilet lease
East Devon District Council (EDDC) and Rockfish have signed a lease agreement for the public toilet site at Port Royal on Sidmouth seafront.
Planning Permission was granted in June this year for Rockfish to open a new restaurant on the site of the old Drill Hall and adjacent public toilets.
Cllr Paul Hayward, East Devon District Council’s deputy leader and portfolio holder for Economy and Assets, said: "I’m excited to see progress towards a new restaurant for Rockfish and welcome their investment in Sidmouth that will create local jobs. It will help to revitalise the east end of Sidmouth’s historic seafront esplanade providing a placemaking solution for this neglected area of the town.
It's a new one for me - a placemaking solution. Mrs H said she could imagine a councillor standing up to waffle about placemaking solutions. Maybe I should be positive and think of it as a postmaking solution for blogs.
Planning Permission was granted in June this year for Rockfish to open a new restaurant on the site of the old Drill Hall and adjacent public toilets.
Cllr Paul Hayward, East Devon District Council’s deputy leader and portfolio holder for Economy and Assets, said: "I’m excited to see progress towards a new restaurant for Rockfish and welcome their investment in Sidmouth that will create local jobs. It will help to revitalise the east end of Sidmouth’s historic seafront esplanade providing a placemaking solution for this neglected area of the town.
It's a new one for me - a placemaking solution. Mrs H said she could imagine a councillor standing up to waffle about placemaking solutions. Maybe I should be positive and think of it as a postmaking solution for blogs.
6 comments:
Politicians may well welcome 'placemaking events' - but they will equally argue that wealth doesn't trickle down. I think 'confused thinking' is the kindest explanation.
DJ - it's probably 'confused thinking' plus a confused idea that even public announcements have to sound as if they come from 'higher considerations'.
If it was made a place by this solution, one wonders what it was before, and how they found it in order to build stuff on it.
Sam - good point, it leaves us with the possibility of finding more places which aren't places at the moment so that could be a boon for house building.
Whatever happened to "going forward"? And "stakeholder " is fading..
Doonhamer - maybe "going forward" no longer fits the notion of a "circular economy" and "stakeholder" has a strong association with vampires.
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