Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultants' "final report" to be presented to Town and District Councils

There have been promises to come up with a 'development brief' at Port Royal for many years now:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> budgeting for a 'renewal and resilience strategy'

The question, though, is whether recent information on options for Port Royal gathered by the Neighbourhood Planning steering group following extensive consultation will be ignored - as it has been for Knowle:
Futures Forum: The emerging Sid Valley Neighbourhood Plan > providing ‘vital data’ to inform the Port Royal scoping study > using evidence collected to submit a ‘substantial objection’ to the Knowle planning inquiry

In a couple of weeks, after waiting for some time, the Town and District Councils will be looking at the latest information gathered by the Scoping Study consultants:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Town Council not to consider report as yet...

The consultants have had to take things like flooding and covenants into consideration:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: 'further investigations in respect of flooding and covenants' needed

They seem to be giving prominence to 'restaurants and cafes':
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: demand for cafes and restaurants come a poor third

The Herald reports:

Town and district council to debate final Port Royal scoping study

PUBLISHED: 10:41 25 January 2018

Clarissa Place

The Sidmouth Lifeboat station, sailing club and Drill Hall at Port Royal

Sidmouth Town Council and East Devon District Council will discuss the plans at meetings in February.

Civic leaders will debate recommendations about Port Royal next month following the completion of the final scoping study. The report, which has taken more than a year to complete, outlines a number of constraints and potential ideas for redeveloping the site.

Next month, town and district councillors will be asked how they wish to go forward with the outcomes of the study.

Councillor Jeff Turner, of Sidmouth Town Council, said: “In the course of his studies, the independent consultant identified a number of constraints with redevelopment of the site and presented his ideas of a potential development taking the identified constraints and limitations into account.

“Additionally, the public consultation and the surveys conducted for the emerging neighbourhood plan identified very clear public preferences as to what should be retained at Port Royal and what people would like to see in the way of new facilities to boost the tourist attraction of the Sidmouth seafront.

“It’s clear that the Sidmouth public want to see the sailing club and lifeboat station retained but, also wished to see new restaurant and bar/bistro facilities included in the redeveloped site. There was clearly no appetite for a single large multi-storey building. The two councils will now debate the consultant’s report and decide which of its recommendations, if any, to take forward into the next stage.”

Sidmouth Town Council will discuss the study on February 5 and East Devon District Council at its cabinet meeting on February 7. The scoping study and appendices are to be published as part of the council reporting process.

Town and district council to debate final Port Royal scoping study | Latest Sidmouth and Ottery News - Sidmouth Herald

This is now the 'final' final report:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultants' final report presented to Reference Group > more in the press
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >> Scoping Study consultants' final report presented to Reference Group > press release
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