CONSERVATIVE GROUP AMENDMENT

IMPROVING THE AVAILABILITY OF BEACH HUTS AND CHALETS

To amend the motion with the insertion of the final paragraph as shown below in bold italics.

This Council notes that we are currently conducting a consultation on beach chalets

and that due to demand, the waiting lists are currently closed; Council also notes that a

report is due to go before committee after the current consultation ends in November in

order the receive the findings of this consultation;

Council requests that this report:

1.    Explores options to finance the building of additional beach chalets or beach huts to rent or to purchase;

2.    Identifies locations for more chalets and huts along parts the seafront including less well-visited parts to help regenerate those areas and provide essential footfall for local businesses including east of the Palace Pier;

3.    Identifies how beach huts and chalet income east of the Palace Pier could support additional borrowing and regeneration of Madeira Terraces and contribute to the wider area’s regeneration and renewal.

Further, Council recognises the distress that was caused to beach hut owners in 2018 by the local authority’s threat to remove huts from the promenade if owners did not sign up to a 3,000% rise in the beach hut sales fee and pledges to work with Hove Beach Hut Association and other representatives of hut owners on hut-related issues.

Proposed by: Cllr Nemeth                                  Seconded by: Cllr Mears

Motion if carried to read:

This Council notes that we are currently conducting a consultation on beach chalets

and that due to demand, the waiting lists are currently closed; Council also notes that a

report is due to go before committee after the current consultation ends in November in

order the receive the findings of this consultation;

Council requests that this report:

1.    Explores options to finance the building of additional beach chalets or beach huts to rent or to purchase;

2.    Identifies locations for more chalets and huts along parts the seafront including less well-visited parts to help regenerate those areas and provide essential footfall for local businesses including east of the Palace Pier;

3.    Identifies how beach huts and chalet income east of the Palace Pier could support additional borrowing and regeneration of Madeira Terraces and contribute to the wider area’s regeneration and renewal.

Further, Council recognises the distress that was caused to beach hut owners in 2018 by the local authority’s threat to remove huts from the promenade if owners did not sign up to a 3,000% rise in the beach hut sales fee and pledges to work with Hove Beach Hut Association and other representatives of hut owners on hut-related issues.