2.17
Object
Hastings Planning Strategy Proposed Submission Version
Representation ID: 3887
Received: 17/08/2012
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
2.17 Construction of almost 200,000sq ft office space is costly test of the regeneration plan initiated in 2004. Councillors say 800 jobs created Priory Square. Agents failed to sell the space for the past five years. Saga Insurance reckons 300 jobs at Priory Square. Starting construction of another 25,000 sq ft offices makes matters worse. Seen as creating a new commercial, leisure, education district with 338,000 sq ft offices and 58,000 sq ft retail, a multi-screen cinema, car park, public squares.' These grandiose schemes operated when there was a river of cash flooding the economy. It's not like that now.
2.17 Construction of almost 200,000sq ft office space is costly test of the regeneration plan initiated in 2004. Councillors say 800 jobs created Priory Square. Agents failed to sell the space for the past five years. Saga Insurance reckons 300 jobs at Priory Square. Starting construction of another 25,000 sq ft offices makes matters worse. Seen as creating a new commercial, leisure, education district with 338,000 sq ft offices and 58,000 sq ft retail, a multi-screen cinema, car park, public squares.' These grandiose schemes operated when there was a river of cash flooding the economy. It's not like that now.