England's Seaside Towns - Littlehampton and Bognor Regis

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/citiesandregions/pdf/englishseasidetowns.pdf

Interesting benchmarking study on Engalnd's deprived seaside towns. Littlehampton is grouped under Greater Worthing, but Bognor Regis is listed as a separate entity.

Lots of data showing the difference between seaside towns and their inland counterparts e.g. seaside likely to have less social housing, lower wages, etc, higher benefit claimants etc.

With the vast majority of Arun's population being in these 2 Seaside towns areas - it's little wonder that FAVG make so much of data on lower earnings etc to strengthen their claims - however there is little in this study that would show ANY advantages to building a new (eco)town between 2 deproved seaside towns on virgin up-populated land.

This from the same Govt. Dept. promoting Eco (sic) Towns!!!!

Joined up thinking?

Bah Humbug!