WATERLINES (Published On-Line Every 2Nd Month) Digital Newsletter of Sovereign Harbour Residents Association
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Issue OL29 August 2019 WATERLINES (Published on-line every 2nd month) Digital Newsletter of Sovereign Harbour Residents Association www.shra.co.uk Evening all. We’ve put together another issue of Our thanks to the companies below for their Waterlines for you and hope that you find items sponsorship of Waterlines for 2019 of interest. Comments and feedback are always welcome and appreciated. The SHRA committee continues to meet monthly in Pacific House in order to discuss and act on matters relating to Sovereign Harbour and its residents. Recently, a SHRA sub- committee was formed that will focus on the issues pertaining to the rent charge. More on this in the future. Please feel free to bring matters of concern to our attention so that we can take them up with the relevant authority. Vacant Cinema Units 2 Water Weed and Inner Harbour Fishing 4 Students’BeachLitter 4 Royal Sovereign Lighthouse Removal 5 The Harbour W.I. 6 Sovereign Harbour Neighbourhood Panel 7 Street Cleaning & Weeding 7 DiscountsforSHRAMembers9 Trouble at Water Treatment Works10 Cooking with Faz Razeen 11 Harbour Friends 12 Maritime Volunteer Service (MVS) 14 Age Concern Shed Project 15 Eastbourne Fishermans Digital Camera Club 16 Prom Turned into a Car Park 17 A Celebration of Land and Sea 17 Sovereign Harbour Photo Club 18 Useful Free Software for Windows 19 Dementia Voices Choir 20 A Celebration of Land and Sea 21 Festival of Transport 22 1 2 Vacant Cinema Units Harbour Friends EBC Ward Councillor Caroline Ansell has released the following statement on her website about the future of the cinema units Harbour Friends meet every now that the cinema has closed. Wednesday evening at 7.30 at https://carolineansell.co.uk/support-for-sovereign-retail-park the Yacht Club. “I have asked the Lib Dem controlled council to help For the uninitiated, Harbour redevelopment at the Sovereign Harbour Retail Park following Friends is a social group of Harbour Residents, of all ages, the departure of the cinema. both singles and couples, with the purpose of building Addressing the Cabinet at their recent meeting, I expressed friendships and generally regret that more had not been done to help fill the void left by enjoying life on our lovely Cineworld, which has moved to the Beacon Shopping Centre, harbour. despite it impacting on the harbour’s economy. Events are open to members I am pleased the council is working up a planning brief for TJ only so why not join. At only Hughes and Debenhams because these are hugely important £15 per year this is a bargain. heritage buildings in their own right and highly strategic in their respective town centre positions. This work, to engage with For further information please their owners, bring together local business leaders and to scope contact Irene Gallagher, whose potential development ahead of a marketing campaign is exactly number is 01323 479855 or the proactive dynamic approach we need to weather the high visit the Harbour Friends website online at: street storm. www.harbourfriends.co.uk However, where was that care and concern for the harbour in the wake of the cinema’s departure? Rotary Club of I have urged the Leader and the Deputy Director for Sovereign Harbour Regeneration to bring the same interest, motivation and commitment to the pursuit of new life at this retail park in my The Rotary Club of Sovereign ward. They have now agreed to do this and I’m pleased. It’s Harbour meets every Tuesday belated but it’s not too late. The harbour is an important at 7:00pm for a buffet dinner destination in Eastbourne and the business it generates, the in Seasons at the Sovereign services it provides and the leisure opportunities it affords for Harbour Waterfront. residents and visitors is vital to our economy. Visitors and prospective new I will continue to raise the prospects and potential of this part of town, do all I can personally and chase down the commitment I members are very welcome. secured from the council last week.” For more information please The statement was also published on the social media platform visit the Rotary Club of Facebook where Caroline added, “I’ll be pursuing the Leader and Sovereign Harbour website. officers on progress in the days to come and want to report back *what the local community would like to see* on this prime site.” You can let Caroline know with an email to: [email protected] Please note that links from Over 400 suggestions were quickly posted on the Facebook this PDF version of thread. A selection are shown below. Waterlines may not always open in a new window or • Kino cinema? Or an activity/ leisure complex for kids? Bowling tab. Hovering over the link alley/soft play centre/ like mentioned above, a special needs or and pressing down on your disability activity centre? So much scope for so many things but mouse wheel may work. Otherwise, from a followed make it into something people can carry on using rather than just link press the “back” button another shop.. of your browser to return to Waterlines. • Garden centre with play area for children and bistro cafe. • Ice skating rink. Please consider printing • IKEA copies of Waterlines to hand to neighbours who • Active centre for children with disabilities please there is so may not use the Internet. much needed for them • Something for teenagers as this town desperately lacks... Bowling, laserquest, trampolining, games room/internet cafe/bar, pool tables, climbing walls etc. Would be great to have a place where 14-17 year old's felt comfortable going. Continued on page 3... 3 • A large Leisure complex for families - indoor trampolining, indoor golfing, glow in the dark bowling/golf, indoor play area, Maritime Volunteer Service climbing walls, arcade, cafe, sensory room etc etc. The Maritime Volunteer • Turn it into a community centre. Our hopeless council don’t Service (MVS) is a seem too interested in opening the one they built...!!!!!! charity organisation which aims to promote • It is large enough to accommodate a big retailer. Previously seamanship and there was talk of a John Lewis or an M&S home store? I'd like to maritime engineering for the see something like that. young and old alike through local units around the country. • It’s not just the cinema, it’s the old Blockbusters site. That’s Training nights are held every been empty for many years. It needs to be some sort of Tuesday evening at 19:30 in replacement leisure facility to give a mix to the offer of Sovereign the new MVS unit within the Harbour. Boat Shed. New members are always welcome, but give us a • Urban Jump, climbing wall, bouldering - something active to call first so we can organise for complement Cafe and restaurants! someone to greet you. • How about a cinema! For more information, visit the MVS website or E-mail MVS or • Something like the old Froggies soft play or glow in the dark Tel: 01892-853500. bowling. • Something accessible for the disabled, sadly I can’t access the The Haven Players new cinema. The Amateur drama group • Somewhere for disabled people, autism and able body to mix to based at the Memorial Hall, teach that we're all the same to stop bullying etc..... i.e. arts and Dittons Road, Stone Cross. craft room, small hydro pool, youth club,small café, small cinema, Members include Sovereign bowling alley all under one roof. Harbour residents. • Vue. Food Warehouse. B&M. Visit their Website for details: www.havenplayers.com • ....the harbour needs some sort of family space, a facility that is year-round. l!Around Eastbourne there is so much to do when the weather is nice but not enough when it's cold/raining. Sovereign Polyphony • Ice Rink in the old Cineworld whose lease had ended and an alternative restaurant maybe in the old Blockbuster. Female voice choir Sovereign Polyphony. • Wellbeing/leisure space...therapies, play area, cafe somewhere for everyone in the community. Weekly rehearsals for annual winter and summer concerts. • M&S food store! Choir contact details available • An independent cinema or an ice rink would pull people into from the Eastbourne Blind harbour. Society on 01323 729511. Or contact us by email: • A proper/decent Toy shop [email protected] • Should have left the cinema there. Website: www.sovereignpolyphony.com IS IT TOO LATE.........? Now that Cineworld has deserted the Harbour in favour of the Sovereign Harbour flickr Beacon, are you devastated? Do we want a cinema at the Harbour? Are you happy to go into town, park your car and make Group sure you leave the cinema on time to retrieve your car before the car park is closed! The Sovereign Harbour Eastbourne Group on flickr is an on-line Would you like to see a small cinema at the Harbour? Please let us public gallery to view know how you feel. We need to know if you want the SHRA to look and upload photos of Sovereign into any possibilities regarding a smaller cinema at the Harbour. If Harbour. enough people want this looked into we will try to find out if it is not too late to get something done. Website: www.flickr.com/groups/soverei Please email the SHRA chairman: [email protected] gnharboureastbourne/ 4 Water Weed and Inner Harbour Fishing Sovereign Harbour Berth Holders Association Water Weed The Sovereign Harbour Berth Following enquiries and concerns from SHRA members we raised Holders Association was formed the issue of an abundance of floating weed in the West Harbour, in 1999 and is RYA affiliated.