Labour’s Paul Richards has called for a clean-up of Eastbourne’s shopping streets and the town centre. Terminus Road is blighted by boarded-up shops, litter, graffiti, and anti-social behaviour.
If elected as Eastbourne’s first-ever Labour & Co-operative MP, Paul Richards will launch a five-point plan to clean up the town.
1. Labour will put more police and police community support officers (PCSOs) into the high street to tackle shop-lifting and anti-social gangs
2. Labour will scrap business rates to support local shops and open new ones instead of boarded up premises like the Debenhams and TJ Hughes
3. Introduce banking hubs into places like Meads to guarantee face-to-face banking where bank branches have closed
4. Stamp out late payments and ensure local firms get the money they are owed, to keep more community businesses afloat
5. Revive Terminus Road, Green Street, Hampden Park, and Seaside with a new community ‘right to buy’ community assets and re-purpose them for local use, breathing new life into Eastbourne’s high streets.
Paul Richards says ‘we have lively shopping centres and a vibrant community but it could be so much better. Labour’s five-point plan will breathe new life into our town, back local businesses, and make the town a safe, welcoming place for everyone’.
