October 2009

Since my last post I'm sure you will have seen or heard of many of the design proposals that have been developed over the last 4 months by the design team.

Indeed, they can be found on this website, here. At the beginning of October we held a public exhibition at Bexhill Museum, showcasing the design proposal for the entire scheme including West Parade, the Metropole Lawn and Colonnade areas. We received almost 300 feedback forms and over 500 people attended on the day. All the feedback forms were studied and fed back to both the design and project teams for consideration, it was good to see such a wide variety of views presented and many of the forms returned were constructively positive. As the designs progress to include the final detail and specifications we will be including these here on this site.

After announcing the shortlist for the 10 practices engaged to create designs for the shelters and kiosk along the West Parade, the submissions have now arrived for consideration by you, the residents of Bexhill, our design team and then at the end of November the Judging Panel, who will consider all the feedback received and examine the submissions in finer detail. A final decision on the winning design/s will be announced some time in December, make sure you take time to look at and comment on the designs at http://www.architecture.com/UseAnArchitect/FindAnArchitect/Competitions/Exhibitions.aspx

Here is another photo pulled from the archives at Bexhill Museum who have been invaluable in providing information, context and understanding to the project and design teams on Bexhill it's influences and long, diverse history. Our timeline on this site gives you some indication of how the town and area has been affected by both events and changing fashions. It is interesting to see that Bexhill and its surrounding areas were used as an aristocratic "playground" 5 to 6 centuries ago, and has always seen many firsts, both technologically and architecturally culminating in the modernist De La Warr Pavilion in the mid-30's.