Next wave - visitors fire off their questions

The exhibition puts the scheme in historical context before visitors reach a long panel illustrating what is proposed.

Ideas include:

*Digging out the headland behind the Colonnade to create retail space

*Re-locating the Rowing Club in a new boathouse adjoining the Colonnade

*Creating a "boulevade" across the Metropole putting green to make an easier access point to the promenade

*Tree-planting on the pavilion car park

*New landscaping, shelters and seats for West Parade

*Creating a visual link between the parade and museum.

A question-and-answer panel provides the written response to many of the most frequently-asked points.

Feedback forms invite the public to tell Rother what they think of the scheme and what features they would like on the seafront.

Rother council has already granted itself planning permission for the scheme and voted to seek Interreg and CABE funding in addition to taking 3.5m from its capital reserves.

It is seeking expressions of interest from companies interested in taking bar, restaurant or retail space in the Colonnade

In answer to the public's questions, councillors have said they are keeping an open mind on the scheme pending outcome of this exercise.

For its opening three days the exhibition was housed in the new Studio at the De La Warr Pavilion. It continues until the end of the month at Rother Community Help Point in Amherst Road.