Ron Kentish lives in a house right next to the proposed site( Image: Adam Gerrard/ Daily Express) The steady stream of bright green protest signs is unmissable.... Next to a huge patch of farmland at the street’s south end, a large crowd of locals has gathered.... Winter weather has set in but, wrapped in coats, hats and gloves, the campaigners refuse to let the chill stop them from making their presence known, so anxious are they that the character of their seaside community is at grave risk.