Shifting sands

design and the changing image of English seaside towns

Demonstrating how high-quality buildings and open spaces can radically enhance historic seaside resorts, with case studies from across the country.

This report demonstrates that high quality buildings and open spaces can radically enhance the ways that historic seaside resorts are developing, changing and re-inventing themselves. The case studies from the area include:

• De La Warr bandstand
• Bournemouth Square
• Van Alen Building, Brighton
• Seaside Road,  Eastbourne, East Sussex
• Saga’s Headquarters, Folkestone, Kent
• Chummy’s Seafood Stall, Folkestone, Kent
• Boston Square Sensory Park, Hunstanton, Norfolk
• Clacton Marine Gardens
• Lotus Way, Jaywick Sands, Essex
• The Tern Project,  Morecambe, Lancashire
• Beach Hut Café and Extreme Academy, Newquay, Cornwall
• Tate St Ives,  St Ives, Cornwall
• Hotel Tresanton, St Mawes, Cornwall
• Southport Pier Pavilion, Southport, Merseyside
• Wastewater treatment works,  Ventnor and Eastbourne
• Whitby Abbey Heritage Centre

Hardcopies of this publication are no longer available. You can, however, download the publication below.

 

Published on 30 June 2003

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Waterside | Public space | Value of design