OUT IN THE FIELD: What can one do in a telephone box?
As predicted in last week’s ramblings, the changes to parking restrictions in roads around Lower Meads, especially near Eastbourne College, have gone down like flat warm beer with everyone feeling sympathy on one hand for the residents but concerned as to where exactly commuters are going to park. This is by no means a done deal yet: the consultation by the parking gurus at East Sussex County Council runs until May 25 so as many people as possible need to make their views known so some form of compromise can be reached.
It was the annual mayor making ceremony at the Town Hall recently so many congratulations to Eastbourne’s new mayor Gill Mattock. Gill is a lovely lady who, despite being what Eastbournians call an “incomer” (she moved to the town in 1971), is passionate about our resort and since being elected to the Liberal Democrat administration at the Town Hall has worked tirelessly, alongside finance bosses, to get the council’s accounts in order and learnt to balance the books to prevent cuts in frontline services. She took her role of lead member for council finances particularly seriously, learning along the way and now she is mayor she has had to adopt a strictly neutral position and will no longer be holding the purse strings. Let’s keep our fingers and tootsies crossed that whoever fills the shoes she left empty will be just as vigilant and on the ball when it comes to doing the maths.