TIME IS RUNNING OUT: Vote on the Future of Eastbourne’s Carpet Gardens
EVERYONE has until the end of August to vote on the town’s big debate this summer:
Do you want the new look Carpet gardens to remain?
Or do you want to go back to how they used to look?
Your vote counts – simply click here Eastbourne Carpet Gardens Survey | 2026
Or pop into 1 Grove Road if you want a paper copy.
Eastbourne Life has been talking to Councillor Jim Murray – he’s the man responsible for the new look.
He’s passionate about the town and passionate about the environment – listen to him chatting with Peter Lindsey.
His key messages are:
#- Please vote, time is running out and EBC wants to hear your view
2. The vote is independent, externally handled by a PR company out of Eastbourne
3. and he likes the new look – but it’s your vote that counts, not his.
Have a listen to Jim and Peter talking – obviously on Eastbourne Seafront at the site of the Carpet Gardens.
8 thoughts on “TIME IS RUNNING OUT: Vote on the Future of Eastbourne’s Carpet Gardens”
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The present carpet gardens are perfect, both from a financial and ecological angle.
They most definitely should be kept
I vote to keep them
Return the carpet gardens to the way they were including the fountains
The new design is inspired, sustainable and attractive.
The new gardens are good but need a lot more work and too many same grass,there are plenty of other plants they could use and need to be looked into
bring back the carpet gardens as they used to be not the cat litter we see today
They are a joke. How many people in Britain have gardens like this. You are listening to the wrong people. We want carpet gardens that look like gardens. All the present gardens need are a few tents and some camels. Disgusting
Go back to the world beating high standard of the original and traditional carpet gardens. Look after them properly with carping on about water. Grow them locally and hold them over winter as the councils did before everything went out to tender
The new planting is beautiful, sustainable and in keeping with climate change and seaside planting. It needs to stay and be extended to the other beds