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SOME SEATON TOWN COUNCILLORS MEET WITH EAST DEVON DISTRICT COUNCIL AND TESCOS

On 17th April 2008, six Seaton Town Councillors attended at short notice a meeting with Members and Officers of East Devon District Council at the EDDC offices in Knowle, and later they also attended a meeting with EDDC Members and Officers with Tesco. The meeting took place with EDDC and Tesco as landowners on the site, not as planners.

The meeting with Members and Officers of EDDC was to discuss the aspirations of EDDC and Seaton Town Council for the regeneration area and for the town in general. This discussion covered all the usual areas that councillors and residents have considered over the years. It included a wish list of what both groups would like to see from the site.

When the two groups met Tesco, they put forward their various ideas and Tesco gave an indication of their thinking so far about the site, with particular reference to the District Council land, the supermarket and the Visitor Centre only in very much draft form. There is no planning application ready and currently Tesco are still doing geological surveys on the site to see precisely what the make up of the site is and whether infill from the site can be used and whether it will need to be imported.

The list of what EDDC and Seaton Town Council would like to see on and off site included:

On site: a supermarket, a Visitor Centre with a Sustrans cycle terminus, Seaton tramway, overnight tourist accommodation, and housing.
Offsite: replacement facilities for those lost on the site, provision for a resited nursery and improved school facilities, a Town Centre Manager, extended wetlands recreational facilities, youth and community facilities.

These aspirations were communicated to Tesco and both councils expressed willingness to continuing to work with Tesco whilst they worked up their planning application.

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