Campaigners are bracing themselves for a fresh battle to stop a housing development. Bovis Homes has submitted revised proposals for a site in Peacehaven after withdrawing its original application to build 296 homes there in January.
Protesters living near the land, to the north of Arundel Road, near Peacehaven Football Club, said the proposals included too many houses and feared it could lead to some roads becoming one-way.
Residents have now received notification that Bovis has submitted a new scheme to Lewes District Council with a reduced number of houses.
The new application is for 185 homes with car parking and road access.
John Hodgson, of Proud (Peacehaven Residents Opposed to Rural Development), said: "The battle has commenced. We are not going to give up and the developer won't give up either."
Joyce Vizer, treasurer of the Peacehaven and District Residents' Association, said the group would continue to oppose the scheme.
She said: "There are a number of plans for homes down on the South Coast Road. There are too many.
"Further along the road they want 71 flats and in two other places along there they want eight flats. The traffic is all going out on to the South Coast Road."
Lewes District and East Sussex County Councils are under pressure from the Government to build more homes but residents are concerned that the development will lead to roads such as Keymer Avenue and Piddinghoe Avenue becoming part of a one-way traffic scheme.
It was estimated 300 homes would create an extra 3,000 traffic movements a day on to the already crowded South Coast Road. The latest plans can be inspected at Peacehaven Town Council offices at the Meridian Centre, Peacehaven, Peacehaven Information Office or Lewes District Council's planning office in Southover Road, Lewes.
Objections and comments about the application have to be made by September 3.
Mr Hodgson said Proud would be lobbying councillors in a bid to stop the development.
He said there were an estimated 94,000 empty homes in the South-East which should be made habitable before green areas were built upon.
Thursday August 19, 2004
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