Tag archives for Sea Change Sussex
Pavilion Re-Powered, Azur Branding Dropped
HUGH SULLIVAN Sea Change Sussex, leasehold owners of the former Azur Marina Pavilion, confirmed last week that a new power supply has finally been installed and connected by UK Power…
Frozen Assets – Would a Town Council do Better?
HUGH SULLIVAN Following intended local government reorganisation, a future unitary council – whether it administers the whole of East Sussex or some other territory – will assume responsibility for the…
Azur Continues to Remain Empty
Attempts to negotiate a commercial tenant for the Marina ‘Azur’ Pavilion in St Leonards have been further delayed pending the need for additional repairs. The economic development quango, Sea Change…
Council Lane Rental Scheme Ignores A21 Disruption
HUGH SULLIVAN East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has announced that it will impose a Lane Rental Scheme on contractors and utility companies undertaking future work on the busiest roads in…
More Delays on Road to Nowhere
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has been told to explain to Hastings residents why completion of the A21 Queensway link has been so long delayed and when it will be…
As You Were at Azur
HUGH SULLIVAN Repair works “remain under way” at the Azur Marina Pavilion, according to head lessee Sea Change Sussex. Drainage problems are said to have been largely resolved through repairs…
NEWS IN BRIEF
Council Hacked Hastings Borough Council has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack resulting in its website becoming unavailable for a day. Deputy Leader of Hastings Borough…
Former University Building Under Hammer
The six-storey University of Brighton building at Priory Square was due to be auctioned on Wednesday this week by London agent Allsop. The building consists of the former main Hastings…
County Council Hires Fresh Contractors to Complete Link Road
HUGH SULLIVAN The Queensway Gateway link road is set to be completed by fresh contractors. It was originally to have been opened for traffic in 2016 but an unfinished section…
Sussex Exchange Follows Azur into Closure
HUGH SULLIVAN The Sussex Exchange restaurant, bar and cinema complex on the Queensway link road has closed after its operating company folded into insolvent liquidation. Prospective customers who had made…
LEVELLING UP FUNDS RAIDED TO COMPLETE LINK ROAD
£ Cash Gap Plugged out of Awards to Hastings and Rother HUGH SULLIVAN On 25 March the Westminster government announced that Hastings borough and Rother district will receive targeted cash…
Sea Change Looks to Borough Council to Remedy Azur Disrepair
Sea Change Sussex, the publicly funded regeneration company which has held the head lease of the Azur Marina Pavilion since 2007, has appointed national leisure sector property agents Fleurets alongside…
Azur Closure
The Azur Marina Pavilion has been closed to all customers and hirers since 29 January following an agreed out-of-court settlement between the leaseholder company Azur Events Limited and its landlord…
£3M REQUIRED TO COMPLETE ROAD, SAY SEA CHANGE
But County Council Still ‘Looking’ for Funding Hugh Sullivan At a meeting of the full East Sussex County Council on 6 February, a member of the public, Bernard Brown, raised…
Queensway Gateway: Is Council Awaiting LEP Abolition?
HUGH SULLIVAN The Accountability Board of SELEP (South East Local Enterprise Partnership), which channels government funds into local infrastructure projects, is due to meet again today (Friday) for its quarterly…
Queensway Junction still logjammed
Is County Council awaiting LEP abolition? HUGH SULLIVAN In a low-key pronouncement tucked away within his budget speech to the House of Commons on 15 March, Chancellor of the Exchequer…
Azur Time Goes By: A Financial History
In 2004 the Marina Pavilion, then a sun lounge and café on the lower promenade of St Leonards seafront opposite the Royal Victoria Hotel, had been abandoned by previous owners…
Azur Company Faces Winding-Up Order (Again)
by HUGH SULLIVAN The future of the Azur Marina Pavilion on St Leonards seafront will be at stake next Wednesday 1 March in the High Court in London. The company…
Queensway Gateway: funding stand-off continues
The dispute between East Sussex County Council (ESCC) and the not-for-profit regeneration company Sea Change Sussex over financial responsibility for completion of the Queensway Gateway road project which we revealed…
Works To Resume On Queensway Link Road
Building of the Queensway Gateway road, which will link the A21 at Sedlescombe Road North with the edge-of-town by-pass to West St Leonards – and, beyond, the Combe Valley Way…
SEA CHANGE: “We’re Saving Jobs”
But financial decisions of not-for-profit development company come under fire from watch critics. Emma Harwood reports An economic development company which has spent millions of pounds of government funding building work…