Documents submitted to Lewes District Council:

The Seaford Neighbourhood Plan and supporting documents were first issued for comment in November/December 2017. The proposals were strongly supported by the vast majority of the public and statutory consultees (such as the South Downs National Park Authority and Lewes District Council’s Planners). However, there was some criticism of the Sustainability Review. Comments from the public on the Plan, as well as from statutory consultees, were taken into account in drafting a revised Plan for a second consultation which took place in November/December 2018.

The responses to the second consultation have been used to revise the Plan further – see Consultation Statement below.

Key Documents

  1. Public Notice– This is the official public notice of the publication of the Seaford Neighbourhood Plan.
  2. Basic Conditions Statement– This is a technical report that identifies the legal requirements that must be met and shows how the Plan satisfies these requirements
  3. Seaford Neighbourhood Plan – FINAL – This is the final version which went to Referendum and, following a majority ‘yes’ vote, was formally adopted (‘made’) the Seaford Neighbourhood Development Plan on 24th February 2020 by Lewes District Council.
  4. Consultation Statement and Annex A (appendices C D E F) – These documents show: the extensive process of meetings, reports, questionnaires, etc, that have been used to develop the Plan; and identifies the main comments received within the public consultations, gives the responses to such comments and, where appropriate, shows the amendments made to the Plan and other documents in response to such comments.
  5. Landscape Character Views– This identifies the views which should be protected and gives detailed explanations to the Design Policies SEA 1 and SEA 2 in the Plan.
  6. AECOM Design Guidelines– This document identifies best practice for design of homes in Seaford and should be taken into account in proposals for development
  7. Lewes Local Plan Part 2, Neighbourhood Plan Habitat Regulations Assessment
  8. Sustainability Appraisal– This is an important technical document as Government Policy requires housing development to be sustainable.
  9. The Consultation Form
  10. Site Assessments – can be found on the Supporting Documents Page (further below)

Other Supporting Documents:

1.AiRS Housing Needs Survey Report – Seaford 2016

2.AiRS Neighbourhood Plan Survey Report – August 2016

3. AECOM Seaford Vision Report – March 2018

4.Environment Group Local Green Spaces Report

5. AECOM​ Dane Valley Final Feasibility Report with appendices

6. Other Papers produced by Focus Groups during the Neighbourhood Planning Process

Each Focus Group followed a broadly similar pattern, that is:

  • Evidence Reports produced around 30th November 2016 which stated the issues that the Focus Group proposed studying.
  • Working Papers, generally produced in Spring/Summer 2017, giving the results of the further work done by the Focus Groups and making recommendations on proposed policies which were then fed into the draft Seaford Neighbourhood Plan which went through extensive consultation exercises.

These working papers are a snap shot in time and therefore there may be changes in later documents: the definitive views of the Steering Group are in the “Submission Documents” section of this website.

The following papers were produced by the Focus Groups:

(a) Local Economy and Facilities Focus Group

(b) Transport and Travel Focus Group

 (c) Environment and Countryside Focus Group

  • Evidence Report ( 30th November 2016: included as Part A of Working paper below)
  • Working Paper (dated April 2017) Note: no recommendation were made on Local Green Spaces as, at that stage of the development of the Neighbourhood Plan, the detailed work of the Environmental and Countryside Focus Group was passed to the Housing Focus Group to be included in their study of all sites that were potential: green spaces, housing or commercial developments.
  • Local Green Spaces (LGS) – The Focus group produced a number of reports specifically on LGS as the Consultation process progressed (November/December 2016, October 2017, and September 2018). 8 sites were initially proposed for LGS designation, but following public consultation this was increased to 11 sites (for the first Regulation 14 consultation) and finally to 12 (for the 2nd Regulation 14 and Regulation 16 consultations). The LGS report covering 12 sites is available on this website (see Item 4 above)

 (d) Housing Focus Group

7. Site Assessments – 74 site assessment sheets formed background papers to the Sustainability Appraisal:

Site Notes SS16- Timber Requirements Ltd, Steyne Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS17- The Constitutional Club, Crouch Lane reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW1 – The Brickfield Marine Parade reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW2 – Buckle car park reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW3 – Buckle lorry park reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW4 – Land between Clementine Ave & Princess Drive reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW5 – Grand Avenue field 4825 reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW6 – Grand Avenue field 7148 reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW7 – Grand Avenue field 9264 reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW8 – Crown Hill reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW9 – Land off Firle Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW10 – Mardon reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW11 – Princess Drive land reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW12 – Surrey Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW13 – Windy Gap reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SW14 -Newlands, Bishopstone reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes NP1 – High & Over car park reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes NP2 – Newhaven Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes NP3 – north of Rookery Hill reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes NP4 – 76 Rookery Way reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes NP5 – Seaford Head Nature Reserve & South Hill Barn reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC1 – 48 Brooklyn Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC2 – 48A-C Brooklyn Road reviewed Sept 2018

SC3, Units 1-4, Clanlu Industrial estate, 48 Brooklyn Road reviewed Sept 2018

SC4 Blatchington Road Industrial Units reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC5 – Gasworks site reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC6 – Land adj to pumping station Brooklyn Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC7 – Yard betw. 64-66 Chichester Road. reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC8 – Old Dairy reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC9 -The Trek Blatchington Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC10 – Avondale War Memorial reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC11 – Blatchington Pond reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC12 – 46 Brooklyn Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC13 – Brooklyn Hyundai reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC14 – East Albany Road – Sutton Drove reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC15 – Firle Close reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC16 – Holmes Lodge reviewed Sept 2018

SC17 Kemps Garage Steyne Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC18 – Land adjacent to sunken gardens reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC19 – The Covers reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC20 – Martello Fields west reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC21 – Station Approach – Dane Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC22 – Sunken Gardens reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC23 – The Salts reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC24 – Foster Close AOS reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SC25 -Royal British Legion Club, 70 Claremont Rd reviewed Sept 2018

SC26 -Jermyn Ford, 10 Claremont Rd reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SE1 – Chyngton Way roundabout reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SE2 – north of South Hill Barn reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SE3 – Newlands School reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN1 – NE of Firle Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN2 – The Ridings, off Lexden Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN3 – Normansal field excluding tree area reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN4 – Chalvington Field reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN5 – Homefield Place Homefield Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN6 – land off Alfriston Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN7 – Land east of Barn Close reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN8 – Land adj. 2 The Holt reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SN9 – Land adj. 130 Firle Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS1 – 6th hole Seaford Head Golf Course reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS2 – Allotment site Sutton Drove reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS3 – Corner of Southdown Road & Chyngton Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS4 – Downs Leisure Centre revised Sep 2018

Site Notes SS5 – East Street car park reviewed Sept 2018

SS6- Florence House reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS7, land adj. to Florence House, Southdown Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS8 – The Boundary reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS9- Mardon Garage Steyne Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS10 – Martello Fields east reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS11 – Martello Fields middle reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS12 – Seaford Head Golf Course reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS13 – Seven Sisters Pub Alfriston Road reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS14 – Sutton Croft Lane car park reviewed Sept 2018

Site Notes SS15 – The Crouch reviewed Sept 2018

 

Please find the Seaford Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group Meetings below –

2018
1. August 2018 Minutes

2017
8. October 2017 Minutes
7. September 2017 Minutes
6. August 2017 Minutes
5. July 2017 Minutes
4. May 2017 Minutes
3. April 2017 Minutes
2. March 2017 Minutes
1. January 2017 Minutes

2016
7. November 2016 Minutes
6. October 2016 Minutes
5. September 2016 Minutes
4. August 2016 Minutes
3. July 2016 Minutes
2. June 2016 Minutes
1. May 2016 Minutes