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For the past two years, Withernsea Town Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council have been collaborating on a seafront regeneration project based on community feedback. In early 2023, Northern Shores Marine Consultancy Ltd was appointed to conduct a feasibility study into the proposals, funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The project aims to enhance the Valley Gardens and Central Promenade, support local businesses, create employment, and offer a diverse and inclusive experience for visitors and residents. 

The proposed project is broken into three elements: 

1. The introduction of beach huts along the front of the Memorial Gardens and the Fishing Compound. 

2. The installation of 10 micro business kiosks in Valley Gardens, creating a ‘coastal market’. These kiosks are designed to be small and low-cost, providing space for micro-businesses and new start-ups, alongside supporting larger seasonal markets and events.    

3. Formalisation of the pedestrianisation-priority section of the Central Promenade from the HM Coastguard station to the Fishing Compound. This will prioritise pedestrians and create space for the beach huts but still provide access for authorised users.  

Withernsea Town Council is seeking feedback from the local community on these proposals and has prepared a list of questions to gather your views and suggestions. 

Since the commonplace survey Withernsea Tennis association have been applying for grants from various funders, and have so far been successful in awards to the value of £56,000;

£50k from Withernsea Big Local

£2k from James Reckitt Foundation

£2500 from Street Games

£1500 from Tesco Community Fund

£250 from Gassco

We have also been awarded £5k towards feasibility studies from the Active Growth program. So far with this funding we have appointed a consultant and have had the necessary architechtural drawings and lighting and tree surveys done to support our planning application, which will hopefully have been submitted by mid-October. We are extremely confident that we will be successful in a grant of £22.5k from Active Growth in the very near future, once the feasibility studies are finalised.

We have been delivering tennis as an after school club at Withernsea High School and hope to follow on from this by going into the local primary schools in 2024. We also participated in the Year 5 Festival of Sport at Withernsea High School in July 2023, which we had a fantastic response to.

With some funding behind us, we plan to start the construction on the Lascelles Avenue tennis courts in Spring 2024, and hope for two out of three of the courts to be complete and available for use by Summer 2024.

Anyone wanting to try out our social short tennis sessions at Pavilion Leisure Centre on Mon & Wed evenings 7-8pm, all ages and abilities welcome, please drop us an email @ WithernseaTennisAssociation@outlook.com

The Hornsea Carnival Soapbox Event survey will be closing shortly. If you would like to have your say about this project please complete the survey and let us know your thoughts.

Thank you for letting us know your thoughts on a picnic area in Hallgarth Park to bring together the community.

A summary of results from the survey can be seen in the infographic (shown above)

70% responded positively to the idea of a picnic area in Hallgarth Park!

Next Steps...

Hornsea Town Council are installing a variety of new picnic benches on individual bases, these will include wheelchair accessible benches to meet the needs of the community. The picnic benches will be installed in the upcoming months.

Once the benches have been installed there will be another survey to have your say on the picnic area!

The Meridian Centre would like to develop a new program of events for the community. A new survey is now live for you to let them know what events and activities you would like to see held at the centre.

All ideas welcome!

We are investigating improvements to the current CCTV in Hornsea and Withernsea. Help us understand the issues that matter most to you by filling in the surveys today!

The current project proposals are still available for you to complete. You don't have to be a resident to complete the survey, if you visit these towns feel free to complete a survey as you can help to shape projects that would improve your visitor experience.