Comment

Representation ID: 1735

Received: 07/07/2008

The PAs do not lay out a strong picture of the facilities available for young people in the town. While ageing population is acknowledged, the relatively high proportion of young people and their specific needs are neglected. There are several issues: increased student accommodation need, town centre youth provision, a seafront adapted to include and welcome their use of facilities. It is interesting that while consulting, two opportunities have arisen: an adventure playground (+ existing play area overhaul) and a new build youth centre. Existing strategy has not prepared the town well for such offers and this core strategy with its vague commitments and forked tongue rhetoric does little to address this. This document should already be helping us to identify sites for these and other facilities. Personally I hope a maturing community sector will be able to contribute decisively on these issues. How does this document achieve anything more that pitting locales against one another to grab an opportunity as it comes, because there is so little on offer, and what is seems so uncertain to be a priority?