Pest Control West Marina

Pest Control in West Marina

West Marina is the area around the western end of the seafront in St Leonards-on-Sea, part of the Hastings and St Leonards conurbation on the East Sussex coast. The neighbourhood mixes grand Regency and Victorian seafront buildings with smaller terraced streets running inland. The age and density of the housing create a pest picture typical of coastal Victorian towns. Mice are common in the older terraces, travelling through shared party walls and finding entry through the gaps that develop in buildings of this age. The seafront properties, many converted into flats, have their own vulnerabilities around service routes, communal entrances and the cellars and basements that sit below street level.

The seafront brings rat issues that are linked to the drainage outfalls, the storm drains and the areas of rough ground along the coast. Rats use the drain network to move between the seafront and the streets behind and the Victorian sewers under this part of St Leonards have the age-related defects that give them access to buildings from below. The restaurants and cafes along the Marina and the seafront generate food waste that adds to the problem, drawing rodents into the commercial strip.

Seagulls are part of life on any stretch of the Sussex coast and West Marina is no exception. Herring gulls nest on the flat roofs and chimneys of the seafront buildings, becoming noisy and aggressive during the breeding season. We carry out deterrent work on residential and commercial properties to stop them from nesting and roosting. Wasp nest removal is a summer job in the loft spaces and eaves of the older housing and flea treatments come up in the ground-floor flats and guest houses that sit along the seafront. The coastal setting and the age of the buildings make pest control a regular need in this part of St Leonards.