This afternoon in the House of Lords Steve Bassam and Janet Whitaker who are both Sussex based Peers will be meeting with a team of Lords under the heading of “Regenerating Seaside Towns Committee” and they will be discussing that theme with three people from a design and engineering background. They have allowed 45 minutes for this to take place and the Lords panel is made up of 13 people chaired by Steve. It is clearly a vital theme to be considered by Parliament and in due course, if handled well it will enable the group to make recommendations to the Government to improve the prospects for seaside towns as we leave the EU who in the past have granted funds to many such places. The reality is that such a theme will take a great deal longer than 45 minutes for experts to discuss and straight after the session involving Architects and Engineers, the Lords will switch their discussion to health issues which does not on the face of it have any obvious linkage. Add to these limits is the fact that the three experts they have invited are made up of two London based Architect firms (Gary Young, a partner in Farrells and Alex de Rijke, a director in dRMM) and one Bath based Engineer (Andy Murdoch a director for BuroHappold Engineering). Whilst Bath is a bit closer to some of the seaside locations facing the challenges focused on than London, Andy is a city focused engineer which rules out a lot of the seaside settings where renewal is needed. It would be helpful if when the Lords and Commons committees sit down to discuss such matters, that they could spend longer periods discussing critical matters with a wider group of experts than two London based experts and one non London based expert, given that London is not a coastal town.