The Market Town Welcome project will help the town and its tourism businesses to
develop a strong identity for Seahouses. The work will be tailored to fit with the
emerging plans for investment and improvements arising from the Seahouses Retail
Distinctiveness Project, but will be co-ordinated by a distinct Leadership Group.
This group, which has been convened specially for the project, will be co-ordinated
by Seahouses Development Trust, and will include representatives from the local
council, the local tourism association, heritage groups and local tourism and retail
businesses.
Once the plans are developed, the Leadership Group will continue to meet to implement
projects and to ensure that the wider Vision for Seahouses takes account of the
Market Town Welcome plan.
We hope that this website will develop as an online community during the course
of the project. Feel free to use the discussion forum to give us your thoughts.
Post your digital photos on the site. Show us what you like or dislike about Seahouses.
What would you show visitors? What would you steer them away from? What makes you
proud of your town? Whether you have a full professional kit or a mobile phone,
we want to see your images.
Please feel free to comment on any aspect of the project in your town:
Sustainable
05 March 2008
Surely one of the largest issues for the village is how to balance the seasonal variance. In the summer the area is throbbing and a hive f activity, and whilst this could be developed further to provide a more rounded, interesting and quality experience, its not the main issue.
As a local who now lives away, i hope the area can develop a winter culture that can sustain itself. Its quite simply not feasible for me to live there in the winter. How can the village be developed to provide more across the whole year ? what is there outside of the obvious and existing tourist draws that could be capitalised upon ?..
I look forward to returning to the area to live, but wonder how i will ever make a living when most of the business's effectively shut down for 5 months of the year ?
I would be keen on having an input into developing ideas to diversify and expand the areas potential...
ben patterson
Seahouses
17 February 2008
Even in February the SMELL - frying of fish and chips is awful - can smell it from Harbour Hill all the way up Main Street.
In the summer it is even worse. Surely in the 21st century something can be done to filter out this awful aroma.
Jen Brown
How would a visitor view Seahouses?
30 January 2008
We asked people from Seahouses attending the Market Town Welcome event what they thought are the positive and negative aspects of the town from a visitor perspective - do you agree with them?
Positives
- Location
- Proximity to Farne Islands
- AONB – Bamburgh castle, Lindisfarne, Farne Islands
- Natural quality of beach
- Shops
- Famous for fish and chips
- Good riding stables
- Golf club
- Seahouses Development Trust
- Wildlife
- Diving
Negatives
- Tackiness
- Lack of quality accommodation
- Quality of shops
- General townscape poor
- Lack of good quality restaurants
- AONB not well known
- NTP or SDT – marketing, promotion, activities
- Accessibility – parking and movement
Kerry Lewis