Neighbourhood Plan Supporting Documents

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

Public Notice– This is the official public notice of the publication of the Seaford Neighbourhood Plan.
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
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.
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.
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.
AECOM Design Guidelines– This document identifies best practice for design of homes in Seaford and should be taken into account in proposals for development
Lewes Local Plan Part 2, Neighbourhood Plan Habitat Regulations Assessment
Sustainability Appraisal– This is an important technical document as Government Policy requires housing development to be sustainable.
The Consultation Form
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.

Neighbourhood Plan Supporting Documents

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