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317 Mr D Harris
Having attended a 'planning for tourism' meeting at Ballards Gore Golf Club, I was impressed with the efforts currently being
made by the councils team. Ultimately, the inflow of revenue through tourism must help to enhance existing facilities and to
develop new attractions.
Activity centres like Belchamps. Use the river more for activity marine centres. We need doctors, dentists and hospitals
318 Ms W Hatton
with parking in the district. Use the brickworks site for a community asset.
No building a leisure centre when there are others near by was a big waste of money it should have been a shute water park
for the young and familier (like the one in Poole, Dorset called I think shutes). It would bring lots of people into the area,
319 Mr M Lang
nothing like it around here instead we got a leisure centre that the well off can afford!
320 J Feather Healthcare is imporatant. Doctors and dentists are more important than large shops.
The new Rawreth Lane sports centre answers local residents needs but why was the centre at Park School destroyed first?
321 R J Feather
A community facility instead of an Asda store would help. How is that green when shopping facilities already exist.
323 Mr T Beebee Leisure facilities adequate and infrastructure cannot cope with further development.
There seems to be a lack of facilities for the young to encourage them off the streets. I don't suppose many of them can
afford to visit Leisure Centres, but they might enjoy their own Club House where they can sit in the warm and indulge in
things like table-tennis, snooker and basket ball, even scrubable walls where they can practice their graffitti and wash it off
when they feel like a change! Perhaps this could be in conjunction with an area for younger children as they grow older, will
324 Mrs Doward
have learnt that there are other things to do rather than hang around the streets.
325 Mr D Elwell Agreed - no comment
326 Owner/Occupier Should improve existing facilities (eg libraries) rather than providing new facilities.
Try to get more tourist facilities on the pier - café just selling coffee, tea and ice creams and cakes, decent restaurant on the
end of the pier, more toilets along the seafront. Keep the Palace Theatre please a lovely building. More activities for
teenagers. Our family likes to take rides on the steam train in Sutton. Train along the seafront in summer at a reasonable
price. Bring back a department store into Southend like Keddies. Attract more shops into Rochford square, reduce the
rates for shops. Encourage the farmers in the district to open for bed and breakfast for horse and rides - encourage them to
327 Mrs C Taylor
open-up their land for public bridelways/cycle off road bikes network.
What is required is a better bus service to get to the few facilities that do exist. As a non-driver I now find it impossible to
get to Clements Hall unless I take 3 buses. Chelmsford (the only decent shopping area in the reasonable locality) will no
longer be available when the 35 bus is taken off. There are no evening busses where I live to enable trips to the cinema
and theatre. Without a car Rayleigh is virtually a cultural desert unless you are a driver - I thought the current policy was to
329 Mrs M J Snowdon encourage use of public transport.
330 P Mansbridge
331 Mr A C Cooper
Essex does have some interesting places to visit but has a poor image which is to a large extent shown to be true when you
drive along any of the major roads eg A127, A13, A130, A12 etc by the poor state of maintenance of the central reservation,
verges and lay-bys. Where does all this rubbish come from? Overall the county suffers from a lazy approach to control
such as unoffical signs, people using land for all sorts of purposes - sorting rubbish which then blows all over the place etc.
I believe we now have plenty of open spaces and sports facilities certainly in Hockley/Hawkwell areas. We should develop
the riverside opportunities offered by Crouch and Roach. Improve toe paths to enable more use as footpaths/cycling/horse
riding. Boating is very popular but there are very limited public slipway access onto the rivers. Mostly private clubs.