Observer Comment: Marks and Sparks would be good for the town

IN a time where everything seems to be about wall-to-wall cutbacks and making ends meet, it's a great change to see one of the country's best-loved retailers looking to expand into Bexhill.
By The Newsroom
Published 13th May 2011, 09:48 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 21:26 BST

Marks and Spencer has its eye on a sizeable unit at Ravenside Retail Park, which we understand is soon to be vacated by the long-standing leisure facility, Ocean Bowling.

While it is a great shame Bexhill will be losing its ten pin bowling lanes, the news that such a prestigious firm is hoping to take the vacant lease so quickly is encouraging.

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If these plans get the go-ahead Marks and Spencer is not just proposing to put in a food outlet.

Instead the company hopes to set up a traditional M&S store with all the trimmings, comparable to the branch in Terminus Road, Eastbourne.

Bexhill does want for this kind of all-encompassing shopping outlet, more so over the last couple of years since Woolworths was forced to close.

There’s a chance to make your views known to Marks and Spencer representatives, alongside those from landlords Land Securities, at the De La Warr Pavilion today (from 10am to 6pm) and tomorrow (from 10am to 3pm).

If successful, this move will not only broaden the range of shopping in Bexhill, but will undoubtedly result in creating more jobs for the town.

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