Bexhill Town Profile - Rother District Council

3.41 There is a shortfall of a number of key sport facilities in Bexhill and they are:
Swimming Pools – 2-3 lanes to be incorporated in any new leisure
centre development
Sports Hall – 4 court sports hall to be provided at new Bexhill High
School site
Health & Fitness – 70-101 stations required
Synthetic Turf Pitch – 1 new pitch required (to be provided on the
new Bexhill High School site)
Indoor Tennis Courts – 8 courts for Rother as a whole (location to
be confirmed)
Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) – MUGAs are required in Bexhill as
none are currently provided. The quantity and location of these will
be subject to further investigation by the Council, depending on their
priorities for targeting provision
Skate Parks – Bexhill Skate Forum has aspirations for an indoor
skate/youth facility to complement existing outdoor provision. The
quantity and location of additional provision will be subject to further
investigation by the Council, depending on their priorities for targeting
provision.
Hastings and Rother Employment Strategy and Land Review
(2011)
3.42 Hastings BC and Rother DC jointly prepared a review of employment strategy
reflecting the close economic and employment links between the two areas.
Some of the main characteristics found in the review are as follows:
54,695 people live and work in Hastings/Rother, which represents 79% of
the 69,545 residents in employment.
The two districts “lose” 9,384 working people (net) each day in net
outcommuting, equivalent to 13.5% of their employed workforce.
The ward to ward movements show that the majority of the travel to work
within the sub-region is focused upon Hastings, although the flows
between Hastings and Rother as a whole are in balance.
Hastings and Rother can therefore be seen to possess a fairly selfcontained
labour market, although with some well defined linkages with
surrounding labour markets.
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