The Eastbourne Green Party is active locally on a host of environmental, social and global issues.  The Eastbourne Parliamentary Spokesperson is Clive Gross.  Clive stood for election as a Memebr of Parliament in 2005 and polled 2% of the vote.

Email	Contact the green party and get involved  - egp@bedlamgroup.co.uk
Web	Learn more what the Green Party means for Eastbourne  - www.eastbournegreenparty.org.uk  - www.greenparty.org.uk
Recent press
‘Terminal Road’ Press Release	Greens call on Councils to end ‘Terminal Road’ blight Eastbourne Green Party are calling on both the County and Borough Councils to take immediate action in the New Year to end the blight of business failures and empty premises in the Seaside end of Terminus Road. A recent survey by the Party identified twelve empty premises in Terminus Road between Pevensey Road and the seafront alone. Principal Spokesperson Clive Gross said “The Borough Council’s obsession with the Arndale Centre redevelopment and the County Council’s failed Seaside Road ‘regeneration’ scheme have lead directly to the current seemingly terminal decline of retail businesses in this area. The Borough Council had at least 18 months notice of the closure of the Co-Op department store, but rather than focusing on getting a key replacement retailer into  this site, they concentrated on their unholy alliance with a single development company for the Town Centre Regeneration Scheme – an arrangement that has since been ruled unlawful.” Eastbourne Greens want to see the creation of a Business Improvement District for the Terminus Road and Seaside Road area, with business rate relief to help attract new retailers to the area. The Party also want to see the one-way systems on Seaside Road and the seafront end of Terminus Road scrapped. Clive Gross continued “The Seaside Road regeneration scheme has left that part of Terminus Road as one-way overspill car parking area for seafront visitors and Seaside Road as a one-way route out of town, bypassing all the businesses located in the road. We need to remove this failed scheme and encourage footfall into this area by routing public transport into this part of town so as to make it accessible, and look into further pedestrianisation of this main link between the seafront and town centre.” Local Greens are also renewing their call for more smarter alternative forms of transport linking different parts of the town – such as the Tuk-Tuk service in Brighton or the cycle Rickshaws seen in Central London – to become a feature in Eastbourne. These would provide visitors and residents alike flexible, affordable and direct connections between key areas such as the seafront, Cultural Centre, Meads Village, Little Chelsea, Sovereign Harbour and Seaside.  “In spending hundreds of thousands of pounds last year on replacement Dotto Trains, the Borough Council missed a fantastic opportunity to put in local sustainable transport solutions that would have helped join these diverse parts of our town together.” added Clive Gross. “Had we been forward thinking enough to embrace best practices from other coastal resorts or successful cities, we might have been able to attract the businesses here we need to regenerate our town.”