Beach bar and restaurant plans for next summer in Bournemouth

BCP Council has tabled three separate sets of proposals to its own planning department for seafront sites in Bournemouth.

While the outline applications include only limited details, information is provided on where they will be located and two cases who is likely to be operating them.

The first application is for the area of the beach near the West Cliff lift.

A site layout map shows dining areas with large table alongside a casual bar area with smaller tables with what appears to be seating for up to three people per table.

The pop-up venue would have picket fencing preventing people walking directly to and from the beach. The access point would be from the promenade.

The plans show there would also be new portable toilet facilities and bin storage installed across the promenade, next to the lift.

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The second application relates to the area of beach adjacent to the eastern side of Bournemouth Pier.

This project appears to be for the comeback of Sunset Beach, which was run by the team at Aruba.

Sunset beach on the seafront this year

It proposes a larger offering, with 16 tables in the dinning area and similar smaller tables in a casual bar section.

Designs include a dedicated toilet block and bin store, this time on the beach itself next to the start of pier’s straight wooden boardwalk.

The final site, which looks earmarked for Italian restaurant El Murrino to trade on teh seafront again, is further along the beach between the East Cliff and Toft zig zags.

The size of the El Murrino offering is similar to Sunset Beach although in a different layout. The dining area is planned for the middle of the venue, with casual bar areas flagging this to the north and south.

Again the establishment would have its own dedicated toilet and bin storage facilities on site.

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All three applications are listed as outline submissions to provide seasonal outdoor event spaces with some matters reserved.

The schemes are currently open to public consultation with a deadline of November 18.

As reported, BCP Council is expected to ask businesses wanting to run seafront restaurants to commit for a five-year period to ‘encourage investment and improve the quality of operations".