CALLS for seaside towns to get a nationally-funded trouble-shooting body to encourage regeneration and solve social problems will be heard at a national conference next week. The two-day event in Margate next week has been organised by the Coastal Communities Alliance (CCA) which campaigns to overcome poverty in tourism-dependent coastal areas. The conference will underline many concerns already raised in connection with towns such as Scarborough, Whitby, Bridlington and Filey and will launch a booklet called Coastal Regeneration in England 2010 and a website: www.coastalcommunities.co.uk. Lincolnshire County Council principal policy officer Patrick Browne, who co-edited the handbook, said: “A nationally-resourced coastal resorts intelligence centre could promote best practice, drive forward new approaches to addressing the social and economic needs of coastal resorts and inform policy.”