An exhibition of what developers West Marina St Leonards Limited (WMSLL) call their “initial proposals” for the regeneration of the former bathing pool site in West St Leonards will be held on Tuesday 29 April between 3pm and 7pm at the Electric Studios in Seaside Road. It will show the work carried out over the last three and a half years since Hastings Borough Council granted a lease for the development, together with WMSLL’s proposals to create, in the words of their director Amanda Vint, “a sustainable, dynamic and thriving community that integrates housing, work, leisure and culture.”

The exhibition is part of a pre-planning public consultation at which the developers’ plans can be discussed and questions asked. “We are committed,” said Ms Vint last week, “to listening and responding to the views of residents and stakeholders to ensure the creation of a sensitively-designed scheme which delivers tangible community benefits.”

No mention has been made by WMSLL of the exhibition and workshop already mounted in January, by local design and community groups West St Leonards Forum, Hastings Urban Design and Save Our Bathing Site (SOBS), at which extensive local ideas and opinions of the potential development were put forward, nor of the West Marina Partnership (WMP) which has been formed as an umbrella organisation for those clubs and community members involved.

They remain at present wholly in the dark as to what plans WMSLL may unveil. However, there will be a community meeting held two days before, in the lobby of Marina Park in Seaside Road, according to WMP member Bryan Fisher, “to discuss and determine our community’s approach to the development”.