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Development Principles

Development Principles provide detailed guidelines to planning proposals and are used in major development applications to achieve the best results.

Development Principles supplement the Local Plan. They provide design guidelines and other information to help shape planning proposals. This helps achieve the best standard of development. It covers:

We are required to allocate land for a number of new homes. This is part of East Sussex County Council's Adopted Structure Plan and an overall national plan.

Our Local Plan allocated land for a number of new homes. This met the demand of phase one between 2006 and 2011.

Each of these sites were allocated by a specific planning policy in the Local Plan. These policies have individual Development Principles which involves:

At the completion of this process the Development Principles will therefore carry significant weight in shaping development proposals.


Supplementary Planning Guidance: Development Principles for Allocated Land Uses in East Peacehaven PDF, 869.14Kb, plan_dev_EastPeacehaven.pdf
Supplementary Planning Guidance: Development Principles for land north of Cradle Hill, Seaford PDF, 381.35Kb, plan_dev_CradleHill.pdf
Supplementary Planning Guidance: Development Principles for Railway Quay, Newhaven PDF, 291.26Kb, plan_railwayquay.pdf
Railway Quay Development Principles Appendices 1 to 3 PDF, 590.82Kb, plan_railwayquay_app1.pdf
Railway Quay Development Principles Appendices 4 to 5 PDF, 357.49Kb, plan_railwayquay_app4.pdf
Railway Quay Development Principles Appendices 6 to 11 PDF, 218.05Kb, plan_railwayquay_app6.pdf
Supplementary Planning Guidance: Development Principles for land north of Belvedere Gardens, Seaford PDF, 210.86Kb, plan_dev_Belvedere.pdf
Supplementary Planning Guidance: Development Principles for land off Theobald's, Wivelsfield PDF, 451.13Kb, plan_dev_Theobalds.pdf
Supplementary Planning Guidance: Development Principles for Meeching Quarry, Newhaven PDF, 390.00Kb, plan_dev_Meeching.pdf
Supplementary Planning Guidance: Development Principles for Gas Works, Seaford PDF, 274.05Kb, plan_dev_GasWorks.pdf
Supplementary Planning Guidance: Development Principles for Clayhill Nurseries and land at Malling Brooks (East), Lewes PDF, 590.53Kb, plan_dev_Clayhill.pdf