Developers and Partners Engaged in the Charter

Sime Derby, owners of the former LEC site and signatory of the Developer and Partner Charter, has provided a shining example of the principles of the charter in action.

The company has been actively engaging with the public to create ways of improving the Shripney Road front of its site, producing hoardings featuring art work from local community groups and schools

Signatories of the Bognor Regis Regeneration Developer and Partner Charter have pledged to endeavour to fulfil the five objectives summarised below:

Raise average weekly wages in the area
Raise educational attainment and skill levels
Improve the competitiveness and sustainability of the small businesses in the area
Excite residents, visitors and potential investors with the intentions, plans, progress and outcomes of developments
Promote good if not best practice in safe, secure and considerate working practices.

It is safe to say that the children above, members of the Community Action Network ,were excited during the creation of images representing community, environment and the seaside which have made their way onto the hoardings. Such was the level and quantity of the work provided that Sime Darby has promised to display more community work on these hoardings in the coming months.

These hoardings have also provided a great canvas onto which the Bognor Regis Regeneration Logo was launched. This logo can now be seen all over Bognor Regis and signifies places of regeneration activity, whether these be multi-million pound redevelopments or cultural collaborations.

.Willmott Dixon and West Sussex County Council

Willmott Dixon and West Sussex County Council (both signatories), provide another example of the principles of the Developer and Partner Charter being encompassed into a local development. Together these partners have sought to excite residents and pupils alike with the plans and progress of their new school, BognorRegisCommunity College. Such activities have included site visits, the breaking of the first turf and burial of a time capsule: