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Welcome to week 6,
Today's eNews segment come on location at our whole college Book Parade
It is difficult to believe that next week is already the seventh week of term 3 – wow!
Maybe soon we will see a change in the weather and we will start to feel some warmer days ahead. This busy stage of the year is starting to gather momentum.
Enrolments for 2018 continue to roll in; the magical 2500 student level is not that far off. Enrolment forms are being sent to all Year 7 families who have indicated that HGC is their preferred school to commence their child's secondary education in 2018. Prep numbers in particular, continue to increase on a daily basis. Any parents who have not enrolled their prep child for 2018, please contact our Enrolment Registrar, Michelle Fitzsimmons.
One thing I have come to realise very quickly, you cannot afford to blink, or you will miss something!! Once again, a huge thanks to our very professional staff team here at Hazel Glen, I am extremely proud of you all.
This week is Book Week.
To help celebrate, teachers across the college have been organising great literacy activities in their classrooms throughout the week.
Congratulations to all the students who participated in today's book parade. The Junior School parade this morning was simply brilliant. Our Kindergarten children had an enjoyable time throughout the week. A great deal of thought and creativity went into many of the outfits the students wore. Our Middle School students also got into the day – well done to all.
Once again to the staff, you continue to amaze me in your desire to be in the moment – your modelling of our book day was once again an example of your commitment to the students at Hazel Glen.
A change of direction.
Please note that I have received communication from the Council that parking inspectors will be patrolling the parking area around the College. In particular, cars parking across driveways in Painted Hills and Cookes Rd. I have indicated in the newsletter on a number of occasions of the need for parents to be both responsible and vigilant when parking and crossing the road. An important reminder, please use supervised crossings only.
Last Monday night I had the opportunity to attend the Hazel Glen Scout Group's annual meeting and presentation ceremony held in the Scout Centre. The evening was a great success. It was fantastic to see the significant growth in the group over the last three months, in particular. Importantly, for those not aware, a new Scout Centre has been built on the College site. This is a shared facility and it is home to our The building will be a fantastic addition to our overall planned infrastructure, with dedicated use by both the Scouts and Out of School Hours Care. I would encourage all parents interested in their son or daughter joining this Hazel Glen Scout Group (currently, Joeys and Cubs to contact the group, hear the details about the program and be part of this exciting adventure.
Congratulations to our Girls Netball teams that have taken the competition by storm. Last week, our Year 7 and Year 8 Girls teams played off in the North Western Metropolitan Regional Finals.
Our Year 7 Girls Won the competition and will be representing Hazel Glen College at the state finals in early September.
Our Year 8 Girls were just pipped at the line and were runners up in the region. A huge congratulations to both teams and a special thank you to teachers, Carina Kufner and Jacinta Dwight for dedicating their lunchtimes to coaching their teams.


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Formed in 1873, Gloucester is one of the most prestigious rugby clubs in the world.
They have finished top of the English Premiership table three times, losing in the playoffs on each occasion. Gloucester did win the playoffs in 2002. Sadly for them, 2002 was the last year that league standings decided the champions. As a result, Gloucester has never been crowned champions of England.
In fact, they are probably the biggest club in England never to have been the champions. The cherry and whites have done well in Europe though. They won the second tier Challenge Cup in 2006 and have reached the semi-finals of the old top tier Heineken Cup.
New Coach
In recent years, Gloucester has been an inconsistent, mid-table side. This year Johan Ackermann took over and initial results have been promising. Ackermann previously coached the Lions in Super Rugby, where he took them from basement battlers to double finalists. He also developed a number of characteristics in his team. His Lions had:
- A formidable home ground at altitude in the 62,567 capacity Emirates Airline Park.
- Fantastic team spirit and togetherness, as demonstrated in the comeback against the Hurricanes and the near comeback, while a man down, against the Crusaders in last year's final.
- Fast tempo, involving quick line-outs and tap penalties. The Lions have a willingness to run from anywhere and a focus on quick ruck ball.
- Outstanding fitness, again shown in the comebacks against the Hurricanes and Crusaders.
- Big ball carrying forwards, such as Malcolm Marx and Ruan Ackermann.
- Influential running scrum-halves in Ross Cronje and Faf de Klerk.
- Several turnover specialists in the pack, most obviously Malcolm Marx, Jaco Kriel and Kwagga Smith.
Gloucester has shown signs that the change of coach is taking effect. In some areas, they are even beginning to resemble the Lions. They have:
- A fortress of a home ground; the 16,115 capacity Kingsholm.
- Much improved togetherness and team spirit. This can be seen in the defensive effort against Saracens and the late comeback against Bath. The signing of Ed Slater also appears to be influential here.
- A faster tempo, one example being the quick lineout which led to Jeremy Thrush's score against Newcastle.
- Influential running scrum-halves in Willie Heinz and Ben Vellacott.
- Gloucester also have Ackermann's son Ruan at number 8.
Lions clones?
Ackermann does not have the right kind of players to turn Gloucester into a Lions clone though. One major difference is the type of centres available. Gloucester has second playmakers such as Owen Williams and Billy Twelvetrees. They have pacey players like Henry Trinder. What they don't have is players like Rohan Janse Van Rensburg or Lionel Mapoe. Lacking centres who can win collisions and get over the gainline will force Gloucester to attack differently to the Lions.
Unlike the Lions, Gloucester lacks turnover specialists in the pack. On the floor, Richard Hibbard and Motu Matu'u are not in the same league as Malcolm Marx. They have hard carrying flankers like Ross Moriarty, but nobody like Kwagga Smith or Jaco Kriel.
Gloucester certainly has the players and resources to regain their status as a major player in English rugby. They have made a good start under Johan Ackermann and look like being playoff contenders in the Aviva Premiership this year. There is clearly a lot of room for improvement too. The men from Kingsholm can, therefore, be very confident about the future.
Author: Daniel Pugsley
I am a 31 year old from Yorkshire, England. I have played social rugby for 25 years in England, Japan, Italy, Poland and the UAE. I teach English as a foreign language, which explains why I've lived in so many places. I recently moved back to England and have had to take a break from playing, but I hope to pull on the boots again soon.

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Despite what you may think, being a haircolor chameleon doesn't mean you have to live with dry, damaged hair. In fact, there is one hair bonding service that every color addict needs to know about if they're looking to help maintain their hair health: pH-Bonder.
In order to color your strands, your stylist has to lighten your hair to deposit the haircolor. Each time hair is bleached, the bonds that support the hair strand can weaken.
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Kenya's AU loss not the end of the world for her diplomacy
Saturday February 4 2017
Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed's loss in the race for the African Union Commission chair should be cause for soul-searching about Kenya's relations with our African continent but, more specifically, with our East African Community partners. The Kenyan Government had invested enormous diplomatic capital to get Amina elected yet, in the end, a man from a nondescript Francophone country called Chad won.
This was Kenya's first huge foray into running AU affairs. It flopped. The regimes of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki never gave the OAU/AU priority in their governance. Uhuru Kenyatta has, something which was forced on him by the urgency to rally the continental body to back his case against the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Chad may have some oil, but she is not by any standards an African heavyweight. She's small fry. It seems her candidate got the job in a move to block other claimants like Amina. Still, Chad hosts the regional military command of the West African multinational force fighting Boko Haram. Thus, it was a given Nigeria, the West African powerhouse where the terror group sprung from, would go with the Chadian candidate Moussa Mahamat, and along the way help influence the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to line up for him.
There was bigger fish than Nigeria in the name of Francophonie, the alliance of French-speaking states. They are particularly concentrated in West, Central and North Africa, and they have numbers. Actually they have controlled the AU and its predecessor the OAU since inception. Four out of five AU Commission chairpersons have been from Francophone countries. The occasional Anglophone chief executive is almost an afterthought.
I was expecting the Ecowas bloc would be backing the Senegalese candidate, Abdoulaye Bathily, an accomplished diplomat and academician. It all ended with the bloc alongside the larger Francophone one steam-rolling into office the Chadian candidate and another West African, Ghana's Thomas Kwesi Quartey, to deputise him. Note, too, that the incoming AU chairperson is Guinea's President Alpha Conde, also from West Africa. And Conde took the baton from none other than Chad's President Idriss Deby.
I doubt the Jubilee Government's hostile stand against the ICC was the key factor in Amina's loss. The majority of African states actually detest the ICC, and they repeated the threat to pull out en masse during the just-ended Heads of State summit. The anti-ICC lobby includes the other powerhouse South Africa, whose beef arose after being censured by the court for not arresting Sudan's Omar Hassan al-Bashir when he attended an AU summit in Johannesburg in 2015.
The other countries that had been vocal on withdrawing from the ICC are Burundi and the Gambia. However, the latter could, in all probability, change course following the installation of a new leadership to succeed the exiled autocrat Yahya Jammeh.
There remains plenty of confusion about how our EAC neighbours voted amid Kenyan insinuations of betrayal. Uganda issued a statement denying she voted for Mr Mahamat. There has been even less clarity about the position of Burundi and Djibouti. What seems to have transpired is that the neighbours chose to abstain at the final round of voting, probably after sensing the Francophone tide was unbeatable.
The issue of the re-admittance of Morocco was a sore point with certain members, though it is by no means clear whether it specifically determined the voting. Robert Mugabe was among the dissenters, even accusing his colleagues of lacking principles. Morocco withdrew from the OAU in 1984 over the admission of Western Sahara, which it illegally occupies. Nothing much has changed regarding that occupation to date, which is why those like Mugabe spoke out against the AU's about-turn.
Unfortunately, Kenya did not lose gracefully. Amina intimated that certain EAC neighbours she did not name had abandoned her and called for a re-appraisal of our relations with them. That would amount to a drastic step that should be approached with utmost diplomatic care.
Withdrawal from the EAC as some short-sighted Kenyan hotheads were proposing is an absolute non-starter. The bloc is the bedrock of our trade and our membership and engagement should not even be subject to discussion. Too bad Amina lost, but it is not the end of the world for Kenyan diplomacy.


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Published by the Sovereign Harbour Gazette (SHG). Written by the SHG's Keith A. Forbes. He and his wife live in the harbour and write, administer and webmaster this website.
Premier Marinas owns and manages Sovereign Harbour and many other UK-based harbours, but it is only in this harbour that these covenant charges apply. The Premier Marina's-owned Sovereign Harbour Trust, a private trust, demands these annual charges via its wholly owned private subsidiary, the Sovereign Harbour (Sea Defences) Community Interest Company.
This is not mentioned not on any estate agent website or Eastbourne Borough Council or East Sussex County Council website. Unless and until revoked, it will over £300 in 2020.
In no other flood area or harbour or marina area or private estate anywhere else in Britain, the UK, Europe or the world do these charges apply. A much wider flood zone area than just Sovereign Harbour is involved, affecting more than 17,000 homes, yet the Sovereign Harbour Trust, owned by The Wellcome Trust, makes only 3,700 or so Sovereign Harbour residents and their successors pay it. They use some of it for harbour expenses but most goes to the Environment Agency.
In no other part of the UK or Europe or world does the Environment Agency or its equivalent levy a similar charge.
Only Sovereign Harbour residents pay it. Businesses, including those in Sovereign Harbour, all owners-developers of all residential buildings in the harbour and their managing agents, are exempted.
People applying for mortgages need to know, but are deliberately not being told, that most responsible mortgage companies will not give mortgages on properties that are subject to any rentcharges, as all Sovereign Harbour both freehold and leasehold properties have to pay.
A second unique covenant, levied by the private water feature entity, requires owners/leaseholders of 369 South Harbour properties in the water feature precinct to pay a further annual charge of £328 in 2018. It is the only such water feature in the world that applies such a charge to properties overlooking it.
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Sovereign Harbour North, part of marina. Photo cc these authors Keith and Lois Forbes
Situated 2.5 miles east of Eastbourne on the A259 Pevensey Bay Road going to Bexhill-On-Sea and Hastings. It is Northern Europe's largest composite marina complex and the most eastern part of the town of Eastbourne, East Sussex. It is both a marina (divided into four parts) and a seafront harbour, with the harbour opening out into separate parts. The four marinas border the separate harbours. The Outer Harbour is tidal, whilst the Inner, South, North and West Harbours are entered through two high capacity locks, both manned 24 hours, 365 days a year, providing access to the sea irrespective of the state of the tide. Opened in 1993 by the late Princess Diana, it has 800 permanent berths, with some 3,000 yachts visiting each year. The Outer Harbour is tidal, whilst the Inner, South, North and West Harbours are entered through two high capacity locks, both manned 24 hours, 365 days a year, providing access to the sea irrespective of the state of the tide. All the many streets in the four residential areas have overseas names from exotic places (for example, Bermuda) around the world.
For its history see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Harbour. It was developed by Carillion Construction Limited. It had a huge and complex national and international (Canada, etc) corporate portfolio until January 2018 when it was put into involuntary liquidation and publicly disgraced. It included being a major supplier to the UK government. It helped to maintain schools and hospitals and was also part of a consortium building the £56bn HS2 high-speed rail link. Premier Marinas, owned by The Wellcome Trust, later bought the development from Carillion (in January 2018 probed by the financial watchdog). Carillion was finally involuntarily liquidated but there is still a Bermuda company by that name.
All the many streets in the four
residential areas have overseas names from exotic places (for example, Bermuda)
around the world. Premier Marina, which continues to manage it is no longer the independently separate company it once was. In recent years it
was sold to the Blackrock UK Property Fund and became a wholly owned subsidiary,
still trading (as it does today) as Premier Marinas. Later, it was sold to The Wellcome
Trust as a wholly owned subsidiary of the latter. The
Wellcome Trust was created in 1936 by the will of Sir Henry Wellcome and its
sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a private company limited by
guarantee. The Wellcome Trust is the parent undertaking of Premier Marinas
Holdings Limited, a private company limited by shares, and its subsidiaries.
Sovereign Harbour, now all under the ownership and management of Premier Marinas Holdings Limited and its parent company The Wellcome Trust, comprises an area of 330 acres developed since the 1990s to provide harbour and marina facilities for Eastbourne which previously had none. In addition to its multi-harbour and marinas facilities it has the Sovereign Harbour Village Waterfront harbour-front area with its restaurants, bars and other business services. Also included geographically in the Sovereign Harbour area but not owned by Premier Marinas Holdings Limited and its parent company The Wellcome Trust (but by M&G) is the adjacent Crumbles retail park shopping centre near and convenient to the Sovereign Harbour residential community, other parts of Eastbourne and Polegate and as far east as Bexhill-on-Sea. The retail park includes an ASDA superstore of almost 100,000 square feet, plus branches of Boots, 6 screen Cineworld cinema (until later in 2018 when it moves to downtown Eastbourne), Frankie & Benny's restaurant, gym, Matalan, Next, Sports Direct, T K. Maxx, Wilko, with its large branch of ASDA, a good range of high street-type shops and until early 2018 a multi-screen cinema.
Also in Sovereign Harbour are the Harbour Medical Practice for NHS patients, with its GPs, nurses and support staff, built in 2014 with about 6,300 patients and, from May 2018 a publicly-provided-and-paid-for Sovereign Harbour Community Centre.
See Sovereign Harbour Trust website. It levies the charge. Annual cost has increased each year and is payable, uniquely in the world, by owners or occupiers, freeholders and leaseholders of each Sovereign Harbour residential unit at the 2019 cost of £290, irrespective of whether a residential unit is worth £158,000 or £800,000 or more.
Cannot be used by the disabled, too much of a slope for those with either mobility or walking problems or in a wheelchair. Nor are there any toilets or benches or railings.
It is a little known fact, that each of the five apartment developments to the east of the site bordering the beach (the North beach) and traveling north as far as Bay View Park actually own their beaches, (up to the high water mark), adjacent to and seaward of their individual developments. Thousands of members of the public, use these beaches every year for recreational purposes; most believing that these North and South beaches are publicly owned. Many who take advantage of these beaches abuse them by littering, leaving broken glass from bottles, vandalizing signs and plants or allowing their dogs to run free, fouling the beach. Far too many fail to pick up their dogs faeces. Although responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the beach, the management companies of the five developments concerned are unable to enforce any requirements with regard to anti-social behavior, such as dog fouling and litter. Residents and walkers are endangered by uncontrolled dogs and cyclists who ignore cycling restrictions (see below). In 2007 Natural England designated these beaches a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNICK). The developers (not the owners of those leasehold flats in those developments) who own the walkway in between all the beachfront buildings, because of the abuses on the beach by dogs and irresponsible dog owners and others, have now called for the beaches to be subject to the same controls and regulations as other Eastbourne beaches. Their petition is being supported by the majority of long- leasehold and other residents of those developments. But this is not nearly enough for many other residents of the flats fronting the beach.
Photo right: Sovereign Harbour North Beach fishing. Photo cc Keith and Lois Forbes
These beaches are legally, geographically and physically in the town of Eastbourne's Sovereign Ward area and residents pay their council and council-tax-related taxes to both Eastbourne Borough Council and East Sussex Borough Council. This surely should mean that the present arrangement whereby the Pevensey Bay entity that presently exclusively both controls these beaches at the behest of the Sovereign Harbour Trust and Environment Agency and gets 3,704 local residents (but no one else) to pay for the flood defences that also cover a much wider area involving more than 17,000 residents all the way to Bexhill, should be abolished, with these beaches at long last fully incorporated into Eastbourne's listing of public town beaches. While the general public continues to freely use and abuse them and this is encouraged by the beach owners they should not be considered as private beaches but should be forced by the councils authorities concerned to be re-classified as public beaches. In the meantime, Sovereign Harbour beachfront area residents are not getting value for money for the beachfront flood defence and harbour defences they alone, nowhere else in the UK or Europe or the world, are required to pay to the Environment Agency.
Beach, seafront brick walkways. Not nearly as wide as they are in inner Sovereign Harbour. They are for pedestrians, not cyclists of any kind, unless they are walking not riding their cycles. The walkways on the beach and harbour-side are also accessible to both wheelchair and mobility scooters.
Who owns the beaches below the high water mark? Presumably the Eastbourne Borough Council and/or East Sussex Borough Council. So why don't they pay their part of the cost of annual flood protection that would come as a possible flood from the sea at these beaches, otherwise known as the Annual Estate Rentcharge, misleadingly referred to by estate agents as the Sovereign Harbour charge, covering a much wider area than just Sovereign Harbour? Payment is made solely, massively unfairly, only by the 2,400 or residents of Sovereign Harbour beachside and nearby buildings, not by any of the 17,000 other residents of the flood protection zone stretching all the way to Cooden Beach in Bexhill. Nowhere else in the UK or Europe or the world where there are shingle or sand or both beaches and have flood areas imposes such a charge solely on local residents. Neither beach appears on any Eastbourne town beach maps (they extend only as far as groyne number 94 the Langney roundabout, not further east). See http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/_resources/assets/inline/full/0/209207.pdf. It may be because this beach did not exist when the last Eastbourne Borough Council beach areas were last codified, generations ago. Consequently, regulations applicable to other Eastbourne beaches and relevant to control of dog-walking, dog messes and other beach activities such as barbeques, etc. that should apply here, do not. Yet the Eastbourne Borough Council has now long included the Sovereign Ward as one of its council areas for council tax, education, voting and other purposes. It needs to now amend its beaches listing to include this Sovereign North Harbour Beach (and its neighbor the Sovereign South Harbour Beach). Until it does so, the council has been unable to act in any of the numerous complaints about dog fouling and more from local beachside and other owner residents, many of whom in fact pay more in council taxes than in other parts of Eastbourne.
North Beach. A shingle beach, located to the north east of Eastbourne, at Sovereign Harbour North, mid-way between Langney Point and Pevensey Bay. From here, walkers can walk all the way to Pevensey Bay beach. This beach is not connected to the Sovereign Habour South Beach because the sea entrance to Sovereign Habour lies between. Its principal features are Martello Tower 64 (see below), the signposted SS Barnhill Wreck Site, see http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/info-board-on-wreck-unveiled-at-harbour-1-6673014, and the spit of land at the harbour mouth from which can be seen the outer harbour of the 5-harbour Sovereign Harbour complex.
Sovereign Harbour Martello Tower 64 (North Beach)
South Beach. Not connected to the Sovereign Harbour North Beach because the sea entrance to Sovereign Harbour lies between. There is no longer a Martello Tower 65, it was claimed by the sea generations ago. Unique to South east coast of England, with only two of them ever built abroad (at then-British Army posts in Barbuda, Caribbean and Bermuda, North Atlantic). Martello Tower 64 and 66 (here in South Beach) are historic monuments. The first includes both a Martello tower and a World War II gun emplacement on top of it, The tower, which is Listed Grade II, lies around 1km north east of its surviving neighbor, tower no 66. Martello tower 64 retains many of its original components. It is one (like 66) of the surviving examples of a series of low-lying towers, designed to defend a specific stretch of coastline. The addition of a gun emplacement during World War II represents the continued significance of this defensive position well into the 20th century. Martello towers were gun towers constructed to defend the vulnerable south eastern coast of England against the threat of ship-borne invasion by Napoleonic forces. They were built as a systematic chain of defence in two phases, between 1805-1810 along the coasts of East Sussex and Kent, and between 1808- 1812 along the coasts of Essex and Suffolk. They are referred to as Martello Towers because their design was based on a fortified tower at Martello Point in Corsica which had put up a prolonged resistance to British forces in 1793. The towers take the form of compact, free-standing circular buildings on three levels built of rendered brick. The towers of the south coast were numbered 1-74 from east to west, while those of the east coast were identified by a system of letters (A-Z, and then AA-CC) from south to north. Although they exhibit a marked uniformity of design, minor variations are discernible between the southern and eastern groups and amongst individual towers, due mainly to the practice of entrusting their construction to local sub-contractors. Most southern towers are elliptical in plan, whilst the eastern group are oval or cam-shaped externally, with axes at the base ranging between 14.4m by 13.5m and 16.9m by 17.7m. All are circular internally, the battered (inwardly sloping) walls of varying thicknesses, but with the thickest section invariably facing the seaward side. Most stand to a height of around 10m. Many Martello towers are surrounded by dry moats originally encircled by counterscarp banks, and/or have cunettes (narrower water defences) situated at the foot of the tower wall. The ground floor was used for storage, with accommodation for the garrison provided on the first floor, and the main gun platform on the roof. The southern towers carried a single 24 pounder cannon, whilst the eastern line carried three guns (usually a 24 pounder cannon and two shorter guns or howitzers). Three large, circular ten- gun towers known as redoubts were also constructed at particularly vulnerable points, at Dymchurch, Eastbourne and Harwich. All three survive. As the expected Napoleonic invasion attempt did not materialize, the defensive strength of the Martello tower system was never tested, and the tower design was soon rendered obsolete by new developments in heavy artillery. Many were abandoned and fell into decay or were demolished during the 19th century, although some continued in use into the 20th century as signaling or coastguard stations and a few saw use as look out points or gun emplacements during the two World Wars. Of the original 74 towers on the south coast, 26 now survive, and of the 29 on the east coast, 17 now survive. Those which survive well and display a diversity of original components are considered to merit protection.
The area now part of the harbour was once known as the Crumbles. Books include:
From Sovereign Harbour North, Pacific Drive. Routes 5 (Monday to Saturday) and 5a (Sundays and Bank Holidays), to/from Eastbourne. Terminus Road, normally 24 minutes. See https://bustimes.org/services/5a-sovereign-harbour-eastbourne.
None in Sovereign Harbour itself but several are close by.
See http://www.eastbournecab.co.uk/
Sovereign Harbour South. See waterfeature.eu/. This anchor-shaped water feature, comprising canals, cascades and fountains, is one of the largest of its type in Europe and runs much of the private residential area of Columbus Point in Sovereign Harbour South. Owners of 369 residential properties in the area are covenanted in their deeds to pay for the management, running and maintenance of the water feature. Note how it states the water in the feature is dosed with chemicals to restrict algae growth, so entering the water is ill-advised and prohibited, so should not be paddled or stepped or swum in. 2019 cost is about £305 per year per residential unit. This is not noted in any estate agent marketing. (There is an additional covenant, the Annual Estate Rental Charge, wrongly referred to as merely a Harbour Charge, about £290 a year in 2019, also not noted on estate agents property listings).
Columbus Point Water Feature - part
Artist's impressions of planned new Sovereign Harbour Community Centre
Finally opened in November 2019. Site 6, Easter Island Place instead of Site 5 as approved/decided in 2012, of modular construction. Phone 01323 509859 to make bookings. Has a schedule of charges for entities to hold meetings. Firmly promised by local councillors in April 2018 but this did not happen. Should have been built in 2005. Eastbourne Borough and East Sussex County Council both stated it would be completed before councils allowed any construction of new residential buildings. They did not keep their word on this matter either as the councils arranged for and approved that the buildings came first by over 15 years. Changes galore resulted in the final plan being about 25% reduced in size compared to the original. The project cost over £1.6 million, with £800,000 pledged from Carillion/SHL (since liquidated in January 2018) but paid up, £400,000 from Eastbourne Borough Council (EBC) and £400,000 from the East Sussex County Council. Ownership of the facility is vested in the Eastbourne Borough Council (EBC). The EBC appointed Sea Change Sussex, a not-for-profit economic development company, to oversee delivery of the project after the former Sovereign Harbour Community Association, once envisaged to manage the complex and the Sovereign Harbour Residents Association both declined to get involved. Managed by Wave Leisure Trust, a charitable not-for-profit trust.
Angry over double taxes residents see a Parish Council, see BBC coverage at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/england/sussex/7666052.stm. Also Daily Mail at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1079185/Angry-charges-living-marina-residents-creating-parish-council.html. See Eastbourne Borough Council comments at http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/EasysiteWeb/getresource.axd?AssetID=8343&type=full&servicetype=Inline.
The idea has been brought up again. But how will it help to improve things? Will it enable residents to get better value for money? No. Will it help residents to solve long-standing local problems? No. In October 2008 hopes about this were quoted in the Daily Mail newspaper by disgruntled residents. They were also quoted as complaining about having, despite being freeholders not leaseholders, to pay maintenance charges. Have they already complained about this directly to the Law Reform Committee which has announced it is looking into matters of this nature and seeks complaints? Or do they seek a new entity to help them with it? If deemed appropriate in principle, it (if it follows the pattern of other community councils) would replace the present Sovereign Harbour Residents Association (as in fact the latter proposed in 2008, not be in addition to it. Or would it merely be yet another unique charge for Sovereign Harbour residents? It is been claimed by those who want the new community or parish council that in other areas of East Sussex the average cost of a parish or community council is (only) £60 annually per household. But it is well known that in certain parts of the UK (for example, Scotland) community councils where they exist are at no cost to residents, are paid for entirely by their local councils. For further information see https://www.scottishruralparliament.org.uk/resources/community-councils/. From the information available there and elsewhere it appears most Scottish councils allocate up to £400 pounds a year to each council including a provision for funding of their respective websites. Here in Sovereign Harbour, there could well be some serious objections to the creation of a new parish or community council if, on top of the extra charges they alone, no one else in the UK, currently pay for the harbour charge and (if they live in the South Harbour vicinity) the Water Feature charge, they also have to pay £60 a year or anything at all.
However, if the community stands to benefit there may be some very valid reasons why the idea has merit. What was particularly sad about the referendum on this in late 2008 - 10 years ago - was the nasty antagonism between the two councils that opposed the plan and the Sovereign Harbour Residents Association that campaigned against it. They should have stepped aside and let people decide on the pros and cons instead of being so adamant.
Community or Parish councils are hybrid public authorities, have to make their Minutes of all meetings public in arrears, a good feature, unlike the Sovereign Harbour Residents Association (also, in view of its mission statement a hybrid public authority) that should also be making the minutes of all its committee meetings public but only makes Annual General Meetings public.
Sovereign Harbour is part of Eastbourne's Sovereign Ward. A Ward is a local electoral district. Sovereign Ward also includes the residential areas of Langney Point and Kingsmere and homes on the south side of St. Anthony's Avenue and the Queen's Crescent area. The Sovereign Harbour area, largest part of the ward, is the largest composite marina development in the UK and the largest sheltered marina in northern Europe.
Newcomers need to know they will pay appreciably more Council Taxes than other parts of Eastbourne even though their properties may worth less in market value than homes elsewhere in Eastbourne. Many estate agents selling or leasing or renting Sovereign Harbour properties do not habitually show the Council Tax applicable to each property. Here, council taxes are paid to not one but two local authorities, Eastbourne Borough Council and East Sussex County Council (which gets the biggest share of the taxes). A councillor from each authority serves Sovereign Harbour. Council Taxes in Sovereign Harbour are on average the highest in Eastbourne, far higher even for leasehold properties with no ownership of gardens or communal gardens or garages or outbuildings than for single family freehold residences with garages and outbuildings elsewhere in Eastbourne and with a higher market value.
Sovereign Harbour beaches Cannot be used by the disabled, too much of a slope for those with either mobility or walking problems or in a wheelchair. Nor are there any toilets or benches or railings. Only Sovereign Harbour residents, including the disabled, have to pay for beach maintenance in their Annual Estate Rentcharge. But 3 million members of the general public can use the beaches for free.
Sovereign Ward Councillors allow estate agents to omit showing key facts about Sovereign Harbour. They deliberately fail to ensure that estate agents comply fully with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPRs) and the Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008 (BPRs). The government took this step to reduce duplicate legislation regulating estate agents and other businesses involved in property sales and lettings. The previous legislation, the Property Misdescriptions Act 1991 (PMA), which had made it a criminal offence for estate agents to make false or misleading statements about properties being offered for sale, was repealed on1 October 2013. The CPRs prohibit all traders from using unfair commercial practices in their dealings with individual consumers, and estate agents in particular are prohibited from engaging in commercial practices that are unfair to sellers, buyers, potential sellers or potential buyers of residential property. The BPRs prohibit traders in all sectors, including estate agents, from using misleading practices in their business-to-business advertisements. This includes misleading marketing used to advertise property for sale. While the PMA only covered estate agents, the CPRs and BPRs are much wider in scope covering letting agents and property managers. The CPRs prohibit misleading actions that cause or are likely to cause the average consumer to take a transactional decision he or she would not have taken otherwise. The CPRs prohibit misleading actions that could cause average consumers to take a transactional decision he or she or they would not take otherwise. A transactional decision is not just whether a consumer decides to purchase a property but also includes such things as to whether to view a property in the first place. A misleading action or omission includes omitting to mention any deeds or covenants or restrictions unique to an area such as those we alone in the UK, Europe and the world have to bear here in Sovereign Harbour. We know beyond any doubt this has caused some consumers, after hearing about the facts from present residents, to neither want to view nor buy or rent or lease any Sovereign Harbour property because of the extra costs and conditions of the Estate Rent charge and other factors that nowhere else imposes. Although the CPRs and BPRs have now been in force since 2008, some are clearly still unfamiliar to many estate agents and relevant others selling or leasing or renting properties and consumers. This prompted the Office of Fair Trading to publish guidance specifically for estate agents on the new Regulations on what they need to know in applying descriptions on a property. They have been circulated and can be seen at https://www.businesscompanion.info/en/quick-guides/services/estate-agents-property-descriptions. There is also know a specified Code of Practice for all residential Estate Agents and relevant others. See https://www.tradingstandards.uk/media/documents/commercial/codes-of-practice/tpo-sales.pdf. Thus, Estate agents and relevant others selling or leasing or renting properties to consumers need to be particularly careful about how they advertise properties for sale or lettings, and to make sure their particulars on properties are accurate. Describing properties as stunning, desirable or in a quiet area now require evidence to back up such statements. Estate agents and relevant others selling or leasing or renting properties to consumers particulars that contain misleading omissions are also liable by the new Regulations. Agents who do not wish to be in contravention of the new rules and regulations are now expected to make sure they have all their client vendors or landlords check and sign off on the accuracy of their particulars. Agents should also ensure their staff are trained on making certain their particulars and advertising are compliant with the Regulations. General disclaimers telling buyers not to rely on details are no longer valid, but are still being used by estate agents with the councils' full knowledge. Estate agents and other businesses involved in property sales and leasing or letting that breach either the CPRs or BPRs risk prosecution by their local authority trading standards services responsible for enforcement by bringing criminal prosecutions. On conviction, agents can face substantial fines or in more serious cases imprisonment.
Sovereign Harbour councillors actively assist in making Sovereign Harbour residents alone pay an Annual Estate Rent Charge, uniquely in the world. Not mentioned on any estate agents or council or public authority or any other community websites is that potential purchasers of residential Sovereign Harbour property must know in advance that the Estate Rental Charge, when mentioned at all, is referred to misleadingly as an annual flood defence and harbour charge payable by them but is not levied anywhere else in Britain or Europe or the world. A much wider geographical flood zone area than just Sovereign Harbour is involved, affecting more than 17,000 homes as far as Bexhill, yet only 3,700 Sovereign Harbour residents (and subsequent owners) are covenanted pay the annual cost, nearly £290 in 2019. The previous Member of Parliament has stated publicly this is unfair and unjust. Yet all business services including management companies and property developers harbour-wide are exempted. An additional covenant, again not payable anywhere else in the world, applies to owners of some South Harbour properties in the water feature precinct. In both cases, they are in addition to local council taxes, insurance, management fees and ground rents. These key facts should not be omitted yet are being consistently ignored by estate agents marketing Sovereign Harbour properties. The two councils benefit hugely from the fact that about five million visitors a year visit Eastbourne and probably more than 10% of them, at least 500,000, visit Sovereign Harbour, admire its views, swim from its two beaches, or cycle or walk along its beach and harbour walkways. In nowhere else in the world do the local authorities make residents alone pay for the facilities enjoyed by the general public.
Sovereign Harbour Councillors appear to be totally unconcerned by the fact the 2019 cost of the Annual Estate Rentcharge of £270 per residential unit applies, irrespective of whether a residential unit is worth £158,000 or £800,000 or more. Yet council taxes are banded in council-assessed values with the least valuable paying far less than the most valuable.
Sovereign Harbour Councillors from the Eastbourne Borough Council illegally - in clear defiance of the Equality Act and its provisions - allow instead of prohibiting cyclists to ride on privately owned Sovereign Harbour walkways, pathways and footpaths, often dangerously in defiance of walkers, pedestrians, runners, the elderly, vulnerable, disabled and children. Councillors should be protecting and supporting their constituents by (a) realizing that under the Equality Act cyclists should walk not ride their cycles so as not to have a speed advantage over pedestrians and the vulnerable and (b) requiring cyclists to keep to the registered cycle track shared areas of council-adopted Atlantic and Pacific Avenues.
The Eastbourne Borough Council has a representative on the board of the private sector Sovereign Harbour Trust and its subsidiary that levies the Annual Estate Rental Charge/harbour charge/water/flood defense charge above. Instead of formally objecting to it on behalf of their Sovereign Harbour constituents who alone have to pay the charge, and/or ensuring that others beyond Sovereign Harbour who are also included in the flood area must pay it too instead of being exempted, our two councils both approve it and have direct representation on the facility that requires us to pay it via its Community Interest Company. This Estate Rental Charge occurs solely and uniquely within their jurisdiction. It means that both leasehold and freehold properties are thus covenanted in ways no other local authority in the UK, Europe or the world encounters.
Sovereign Harbour in Sovereign Ward does not get the same recognition from local authorities as other parts of Eastbourne.
The following examples highlight this:
Trees on an European walkway. Photo by authors Keith and Lois Forbes. If only Sovereign Harbour had such trees on any of its walkways or pavements......
Trees overseas that grace a seaside area. No trees of any kind similarly enhance the Sovereign Harbour or its seaside area.
Sovereign Harbour North, another part of marina. Photo cc Keith and Lois Forbes
See https://www.police.uk/sussex/EE3NH21/crime/stats/. From Sussex Police.
These surely mean, but this is not enforced, no cycling anywhere except for Atlantic and Pacific Avenues in Sovereign Harbour. Only the marked cycle way pavements along Atlantic and Pacific Drives in South and North Harbours respectively, should shared with pedestrians. They are marked as shown below.
All pathways, footways, walkways of inner and outer Sovereign Harbour without the cycle route sign shown are not cycle routes. Eastbourne Borough Council, in which Sovereign Ward councillors are a part, have made it a point to BAN cyclists along much of Eastbourne's much wider beachfront and seafront promenade. But they ALLOW cyclists to ride along the much narrower pathways and footways of beachfront and seafront Sovereign Harbour.
Of particular
concern to residents is the daily
misuse by cyclists of Sovereign Harbour walkways and pathways. Every day,
individual cyclists or couples on cycles and often their children on bikes go
alongside each other, regularly. Single and groups of cyclists mis-use the
Sovereign Harbour North beachfront narrow footpath, going very fast or ringing
their bells or shouting at walkers to get out their way, or weaving in between
walkers and frightening them. When residents walking carefully and slowly have
attempted to speak to and reason with them, they are often abused by cyclists,
told to shut up or are sworn at. One Sovereign Harbour North Beach walkway, only
nine feet wide, was built for walkers, not cyclists who often outnumber the
walkers. Cyclists deliberately ignore the established and clearly cycle-marked
pavements of Atlantic Drive and Pacific Drive with their wide purpose-built
pavement built as a shared way for both pedestrians and cyclists. They unfairly
demand and mis-use the scenic pedestrian or walking pathways and almost totally
ignore the established cycle routes.
Residents really suffer from the attitudes of many cyclists, particularly including those who are not resident but are holiday lodging at the three nearby caravan parks less than a mile away to the east. They treat this private pathway and other harbour areas not as private pathways but as public cycle routes.
They do not
pay any cycle taxes, have caused thousands of accidents with walkers,
surely, in this day and age, if they want more rights, should be taxed for the
roads they use and fined for the non-cycle paths they deliberately and often
contemptuously misuse They want to be able to ride cost free from Eastbourne to Bexhill on Sea,
right through Sovereign Harbour.
The menace of Bespoke. The cycling organization Bespoke has campaigned for over 10 years to allow unrestricted cycling on Eastbourne's promenade despite an EBC bye-law that has prohibited this for good reasons, one of them being that Eastbourne has the highest concentration of elderly, vulnerable and mobility-impaired people in the entire UK and the EBC as well as police have a statutory public authority duty under the UK's Equality Act to give particular care and attention to the disabled and vulnerable, many of whom, on the flat and wide paved promenade pathway, have the space to walk accompanied by carers at their side. Bespoke has also indicated it demands similar access to Sovereign Harbour. Bespoke refuses to condemn shared areas. Nor has Bespoke ever conceded that cycling amongst pedestrians even on fast moving electric bikes is potentially unsafe, or expressed any concerns that it is dangerous to older and disabled residents.
we hope will be of particular relevance is
something not mentioned at all elsewhere to the best of our knowledge and
belief. It may perhaps be deliberately omitted. It is a particularly
significant and hopefully overriding fact. It is that all Sovereign Harbour
walkways and pathways are on private, not public, land. So how can they possibly
be considered by any Member of Parliament or parliamentary committee or
Eastbourne Borough Council or East Sussex Borough Council for any public cyclist
usage? Because of this they should not be compared - yet have been - to any
other public areas or roads or pathways in the UK or Europe or world where
cycling is permitted and encouraged by local, regional and national authorities
as an active exercise.
Sovereign Harbour Councillors from the Eastbourne Borough Council illegally - in clear defiance of the Equality Act and its provisions - allow instead of prohibiting cyclists to ride on privately owned Sovereign Harbour walkways, pathways and footpaths, often dangerously in defiance of walkers, pedestrians, runners, the elderly, vulnerable, disabled and children. Councillors should be protecting and supporting their constituents by (a) realizing that under the Equality Act cyclists should walk not ride their cycles so as not to have a speed advantage over pedestrians and the vulnerable and (b) requiring cyclists to keep to the registered cycle track shared areas of council-adopted Atlantic and Pacific Avenues.
Based in Sovereign Harbour. See eastbournernli.org/.
See under "Buying a Sovereign Harbour Property - guidelines"
Also see under Eastbourne Fishermen.
In the marina..
Area to the left of photo below, with brick car parking area underneath. The most central of the harbour areas and with some of the most expensive homes.
Hamilton Quay
Social group for Sovereign Harbour residents. Membership is £15 per annum per person. Newcomers to this area of Eastbourne may find it useful. Meets every Wednesday evening usually from 7:30 pm at the Sovereign Harbour Yacht Club. Many members tend to sit at the same tables.
See premiermarinas.com/uk.
1 Pacific Avenue, Sovereign Harbour North, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN23 6DW. See http://www.harbourmedicalpractice.co.uk/ and staff at http://www.harbourmedicalpractice.co.uk/staff1.aspx. Has about 7,200 NHS patients in and beyond Sovereign Harbour North and South. In 2018 according to a BBC report, the National Health Service has given the practice £161 for every patient. A good practice, a first-class facility, even with frequent waits of 20 minutes or more, with doctors, nurses and support staff, in a modern building with its own spacious car park and 2 disabled access bays immediately in front of the building. Patients requiring hospitalization are sent locally to Eastbourne General Hospital or Conquest Hospital in St. Leonard's in Hastings, or, depending on their condition, to Royal Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead or Guys Hospital in London.
See sussex.police.uk/eastbourne/sovereign-harbour.
BN23 5QG - one of the many area residential postcodes. The most common council tax band is E. Estimated residential property values, based on historical transactions and adjusted for inflation, range from £311,346 to £1,078,437 with an average of £454,758. Housing types are typically flats/apartments. 78% of house sales since 1995 have been new builds.
See hefflegolf.com. Sovereign Harbour-based organization for golfers.
Part of Sovereign Harbour at dusk. Photo cc these authors, Keith and Lois Forbes
Pacific House
See premiermarinas.com/Tides-Weather-Forecast/Eastbourne-Weather.
see premiermarinas.com/UK-Marina-locations/Sovereign-Harbour-Marina-Eastbourne/Getting-to-Eastbourne-Marina/Locking-Procedure. Open 24 hours a day at specific or pre-ordered times, with a signal showing green or red. All vessels need to pass through a lock to get to or from the sea. At the lock entrance, when closed to marine traffic a narrow iron pedestrian bridge allows pedestrians to walk from North to South Harbours and beyond. When open to marine traffic the bridge is closed to pedestrians.
In the photo, the lock is empty but in spring, summer and autumn it is often full of yachts and motor boats, with curious onlookers on either side.
See eastbournenp.org/21SovereignHarbour/21_about.html.
Innovation Park, Sovereign Harbour. A 2,300 metre office block at the entrance to Pacific Drive, North Harbour. Can accommodate up to 70 small to medium business entities, or fewer larger ones. With its own spacious parking area. Of all the available office spaces in Eastbourne and nearby, this is the most expensive by far, as revealed in November 2019.
Cars at 16 San Diego Way, North Harbour, on 30 July 2017 obstructing an ambulance and other emergency vehicles from departing
Eastbourne Borough Council and East Sussex County Council do not follow the example of European Union, USA and Canadian jurisdictions in requiring developers of private-area properties to have the same disability parking laws and provisions as in public or town or city areas.
No Disabled Parking Bay at your home. There is an almost-complete lack of any disabled parking spaces at any of the units of flats in the Sovereign Harbour area in their below-building or adjacent parking areas. Some cars are parked so badly that they impede and slow or halt the progress of emergency vehicles. What clearly seems to have happened is that developers have crammed as many parking spaces as they can into their developments, many of which are so small they cannot easily accept longer and wider cars of today, and with none of the undercroft and only one (see photo above, which partially but not wholly meets the standard) having wider and properly disability-marked Disability Parking available. Future residents who are disabled, those not yet committed to any particular development but interested in buying or leasing, should, in their best interests, before they sign any contracts, ask if such disabled-signed parking in or near or under that development is going to be available and if so when. If not answered precisely, it may well discourage them permanently from coming. When The Waterfront complex (see http://www.eastbourneharbour.com) describes Sovereign Harbour in which it is located as "Eastbourne's international experience" and the entire harbour area has street and quay names from prominent places around the world, that "international experience" cachet should be followed by developers in creating parking and disabled parking to international standards in residential areas. Presently, in Sovereign Harbour, none of the many apartment buildings with underground/undercroft parking facilities has any marked disabled parking areas.If your disability means that you need to park close to your home, your local council should be asked to help. If you live in an area where everybody parks on the street, you may be able to arrange, via the council, to have a special disabled parking space created for your car or for a car driven by somebody living at your address who helps you get around. If you have private parking at your home but can't always access it because of how other people park, you can ask the council to mark the street as an access route. If your disability means you can no longer use the parking facilities on your property, or have a disabled-related difficulty in accessing it in winter or due to stone curbs that impede your path and could be dangerous, or some other impediment, you can apply for a reserved on-street parking space. Be aware this may cost the applicant.
Please note that residential disabled car parking spaces provided under the Disabled Car Parking Space scheme are advisory only, and have no legal standing (unlike in the USA, Europe, etc). Although able-bodied drivers are encouraged not to park within a disabled parking space, anyone can use them. Their use relies on the good will of people in the community.
Be aware that even you are disabled in accordance with the above criteria but live in a flat or terraced house in a private off-street development where there is a common driveway but no garage and have an assigned regular (not disabled) parking space not wide enough for a disabled person to access or exit safely, you may still not qualify for a disabled parking space. You should apply anyway at disabled-bay-application-form-for-email.docx but you may be told the Council cannot help because where you live is outwith the remit of the council, and may be referred instead to the managing agent or owner of the building. In which case you will find that some managing agents are more helpful than others. One might say that to allow additional door-width for a disabled person to enter or exit a car an extra parking space can be provided. That has happened at one location. But at the same location (16 San Diego Way, Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne) another disabled applicant with similarly-qualifying credentials may be told merely simply and unhelpfully that all car park spaces are assigned. The Council cannot intervene in the matter because here in the UK, unlike in the EU or Canada or USA, etc. there are no national or local authority residential or planning regulations requiring private properties to provide genuinely-disabled persons with disabled parking. Only in public areas or on public streets is this required.
Retail areas. There is plenty of limited time ( three hours, enough for most) free parking at The Crumbles retail centre and the Waterfront car parks.. At The Crumbles most of these spaces are close to shops and ASDA has to be complemented for having the largest number seen to date at any supermarket shopping centre in the UK. At the Waterfront complex,
Disabled Parking Spaces. 60 are available at ASDA and 20 at the Waterfront complex. At the latter, all 20 Disabled Parking spaces, despite being on the western end, closest to restaurants, shops and services are at least 150 yards away from them.
See pevensey-bay.co.uk/sovereign-harbour.html. Includes all of Sovereign Harbour.
See http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/residents/leisure-and-events/residents-card/. Sovereign Harbour residents qualify for this Eastbourne Borough Council discount parking concession at certain local facilities beyond the harbour.
Do they also apply here at Sovereign Harbour? If not, surely they should. Many boats are moored annually (year-round) in Sovereign Harbour. For what happens at St. Katherine's Docks in London and elsewhere see https://bwml.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/council-tax-payments-q-a-oct2017.pdf.
Local residents are members.
Located five miles offshore directly opposite Sovereign Harbour.
Sovereign Harbour is part of this area. See pevensey-bay.co.uk/resources/pdf/Pevensey%20supplement.pdf
Formed in September 2007 by artist and tutor Angela Clarke-Beagley. Open to beginners & experienced artists, harbour & non-harbour residents.
Sovereign Outer Harbour at dusk 2. Photo cc these authors, Keith and Lois Forbes
Dogs on Leashes abuses on this beach have still not addressed by the Eastbourne Borough Council. It was first mentioned in the Sovereign Harbour Residents Association's June 2007 Waterlines, see http://www.waterlines.onl/Waterlines%20Printed/waterlines025.pdf.
In Sovereign Harbour, reporting a seafront issue. It is not a straightforward but an unnecessarily complicated procedure. Instead of dealing with it as a council issue, as it does in all other Eastbourne beaches, the Eastbourne Borough Council (EBC), see http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/residents/leisure-and-events/eastbourne-seafront/report-a-problem/report-a-seafron Thist-issue/ - states it is unable to respond to reports about Sovereign Harbour. Instead, use one of the contacts shown. This makes the EBC the only local authority not only in the whole of the UK but also in the rest of the world with a beach in the local authority's jurisdiction over which it does not regulate or have oversight or receive complaints and it is not responsible.
For boat owners, residents and visitors, whose vessels are moored in one or more of the harbours 5 marinas.
There are several to cross over by foot or bike or mobility scooter only, no cars allowed. In the photo below, the main moving bridge is shown.
When in the raised position as in the photo, only vessels can pass underneath, to get to or from Sovereign Harbour North. All pedestrians, cyclists and mobility scooters must wait before they can get to or from The Waterfront with its nice restaurants and shops and, a short distance away, The busy Crumbles retail shopping centre. The bridge opens frequently daily, by pre-arranged signal from Sovereign Harbour berth holders or visitors or the harbours' tour boat.
See https://www.facebook.com/SHPC.UK
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Established in 2000 to give Harbour residents a strengthened and co-ordinated voice in all discussions on the management and development of Sovereign Harbour. It states in its manifesto that it represents the interests of all, not just some harbour residents whether renting, leasing or owning. Membership, via presentation of the membership card, brings discounts from certain local businesses. The work of the SHRA is funded by a one-off, life membership subscription, presently £10, from members including everyone in their households, supplemented by commercial sponsorship of the SHRA web site and newsletter, "Waterlines. " There is no SHRA committee involvement in other controversial aspect of Sovereign Harbour life such as the Sovereign Harbour beaches and cycling misuse; dog mess nuisance, lack of trees, parking problems, harbour charge; only in Planning issues. The only real benefit of membership in return for the £10 is the 10% discount offered at some Sovereign Harbour or nearby establishments when a membership card is produced. Does not allow members to have online access to monthly meetings, only to Annual General Meetings; declines to agree to link to some websites - even those of some members.
See eastbourne.gov.uk/_resources/assets/inline/full/0/218187.pdf.
Waterfront complex. See eastbourneharbour.com/.
See shyc.co.uk/.
See sovereignpolyphony.com/sovereign-polyphony.
Operator, Southern Railway, see http://www.southernrailway.com/tickets-and-fares/ticket-types/advance/. Stations are Eastbourne; Hampden Park (about. 3 miles away); Polegate (Approx. 5 miles away); Pevensey & Westham (Approx. 5 miles away; and) Pevensey Bay (Approx. 5 miles away). Beyond Pevensey Bay are more stations going east to Bexhill and Hastings.
By Age Concern, see https://www.walkingforhealth.org.uk/content/sovereign-harbour-sovereign-centre.
Keith, a practicing British Bermudian economic journalist, also writes and publishes Bermuda Online (see below) for Bermuda's internationally known and respected daily newspaper the Royal Gazette. He is a member of the UK's The Society of Authors and an activist for the elderly and disabled.
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