Plans for Port Royal and the Eastern Town >>> apartments over car parks

There have been some pretty cool ideas for what to build at the Eastern End of town.

Here's one such idea from Sidmouth's MP: 
- housing around and over the car parking:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal and the Eastern Town >>> "a wrap-around car park, weaved between starter flats"

Which pretty much replicates what this part of town always looked like:
- a warren of cottages and businesses and open spaces:

Futures Forum: Gerald Counter's Sidmouth: an insight into Eastern Town

Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: Eastern Town then and now

The only problem is that the area faces more flooding than before:
Futures Forum: New plans for Alma Bridge - and a sea defence wall to protect Sidmouth’s eastern town from flooding
Futures Forum: Climate change... and protecting Sidmouth against rising sea levels

One suggestion has been to place apartments over car parks:
- in particular, over part of the Ham car park behind the Sailing Club:

Futures Forum: Port Royal Repurposed

In other words, any housing would have to be 'over car parking' - if not on stilts.

The consultants' proposals for Port Royal do indeed fulfill these requirements: 
- but the positioning of 30 flats on top of the lifeboat station and sailing club seems rather overkill:

Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultation >> proposals now available
sidmouth-consulation-boards.pdf

There are alternative approaches:

Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal and the Eastern Town: homes on stilts

Meet ZEDpod - the £65,000 house that doesn't need planning permission
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal and the Eastern Town: homes on stilts > revisited

Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: contemporary and vernacular

Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: ideas for 'mixed use' projects >>> >>> the Beddington Zero Energy Development

It's all about 'living upstairs':
- largely because of the expected greater flooding:
Start living upstairs, flooding expert tells Thameside residents | The Times & The Sunday Times

Here's a very nice property overlooking the sea 
- and a very good illustration of how to 'live upstairs':

40 Shore Road, Amagansett, NY 11930 | Sotheby's International Realty, Inc.

See also:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal > fresh ideas > "It's not the building so much as the location."
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: 'Alternative ideas as to how the Port Royal area of Sidmouth could be redeveloped'
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