In need of a makeover: Cromer's West Prom toilets

Cromer’s West Prom is on the list for a possible £300,000 makeover, with ideas including new and improved toilet blocks, a café, refurbished chalets and extra retail units to rent.

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North Norfolk District Council is hoping to lavish attention on the prom, which missed out on Cromer’s 2001-2006 regeneration project.

In that project, £2m-£3m was spent on improving an area extending from the pier westwards to the bottom of the Melbourne Slope, and eastwards to the Rocket House.

The West Prom scheme, which the council would like to complete by 2014, could see new or improved toilet blocks at the bottom of the Melbourne Slope and on the West Prom, plus improvements to the pier toilets.

The council would like to start this year by setting up a steering group of local people and business representatives to contribute ideas and manage the scheme, with works beginning in 2012. But Peter Moore, the council’s cabinet member for resources, cautioned that the scheme’s progress was dependent on when Defra announced its decision on funding the strengthening of Cromer’s sea defences. He hoped an announcement would be made “as soon as possible” because that work would affect the prom, and improvements would have to be timed around it. They would also need to complement ongoing work to Cromer Pier.Cromer Chamber of Trade president Peter Stibbons welcomed the project: “The West Prom has suffered over the years from ‘bitty’ development,” he said. “It’s a bit of a jumble down there. The only significant investment over the past 25 years has been the reinstatement of the white steps by Anglian Water. I would like to see that whatever happens matches up with the earlier regeneration work.”

The project is one of seven schemes the council would like to carry out.

Others include £85,000 for new public toilets on Sheringham’s East Prom, due to be finished at the end of this year, and £103,000 to replace car park ticket machines in 22 sites throughout the district. They are among a longer list of investments in some of the council’s £41m of property which were discussed by its cabinet on Monday, when members approved the council’s Asset Management Plan.

alex.hurrell@archant.co.uk