Your support of this petition has been amazing. If you want to discuss this matter further, please contact Anna at SaveEastneyBeach@gmail.com We need volunteers who live in Southsea to help represent this cause. "Fun" background facts: "Eastney Beach Habitat Restoration and Management Plan Supplementary Planning Document" - a targeted consultation took place between 8th October 2014 and 5th November 2014 focussed mostly on bodies with an interest in nature conservation, those who live close to Eastney Beach and those who visit the beach. Some sensible objections regarding proposed developments have been raised by members of the public, for example this: "You also state how much the beach is "really valued by those who like to enjoy the wilder and more natural beach" but then follow this statement with a wish to change that status by "small-scale development opportunities".Opportunities for whom? Clearly not the people who value the beach as it is because they value it as it is. If we wish to retain a great waterfront then it would be far more sensible to restrict renewal to those areas further west that have already been developed". Guess how the council responded? "The SPD proposes to put a framework in place to allow that development, the principal of which has been previously established in the Seafront Masterplan, to go ahead." http://democracy.portsmouth.gov.uk/documents/s5741/Eastney%20Beach%20-%20Appendix%20A%20-%20Consultation%20Statement.pdf If you care about Eastney Beach please contact us, we need your help.