Eastbourne ~ Town Centre no go area

If you chat to someone and mention there’s a particular area of the Town Centre that you feel very uncomfortable in even in daytime , they will usually chip in that it is the area between M & S and KFC .
Given the obvious issues in other streets nearby, it’s interesting that regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality this particular spot is mentioned above all others.
There’s a menacing feel to it, personally I think much is to do with the cafe table outside a particular shop where Eastern Europeans gather in all weathers & stare with hatred at local passers-by.
I’m not easily spooked having grown up overseas in Muslim countries where I was always the minority. In 15years of that I NEVER felt anything close to what I feel now and have for the last 3years walking on that bit of street.