A 'landmark building'? What does HBC know about landmark buildings? Ocean House? Hastings College in Archery Road that it denigrated in Committee papers when recommending the original Gladedale plans — having previously made possible that College development within living (and working) memory?
The planning system achieves both so little and (unfortunately) so much. The Plan fails fundamentally, and not only because it lacks any vision. Further, design - or rather good design - and sustainability are now supposed to be at the heart of planning policy and yet there is no way of assessing either. How do members and officers propose to deal with this?

There is NO NEED for a landmark building as the Alpha Cafe is part of a landmark site. As
Policy HN1 points out, enjoyment of relatively unimpeded long views is a key element of area character.

HBC should apologise for Waverley Court (opposite the Pier) and Royal Terrace (behind Warrior Square), &c., and take proper pride in the existing townscape.
The use of 'catalyst' is wrong and typically inept. The site could be a catalyst in the renewal of the station and the Conservation Area only if it were to remain a bungalow.