Sixty new homes planned for Eastbourne

Plans for up to 60 new homes in Eastbourne have been unveiled.
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New homes could be provided on the former Dairy Crest site in Waterworks Road SUS-201019-102721001

The former Dairy Crest site in Waterworks Road could be demolished to make way for 60 flats with car parking and landscaping.

Lincoln Holland Holdings Ltd is behind the redevelopment and in a planning design statement submitted with an application to Eastbourne Borough Council, says the 1.4 acre site will provide much needed residential accommodation with 30 per cent affordable housing.

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A spokesperson for the developers said, “The site is a broadly level site largely occupied by a range of commercial and warehouse buildings extending across the great majority of the site area.

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“Only a small part of the premises are currently in use for distribution of milk and dairy produce and will be entirely vacated during summer 2021.

“The site presents an uninteresting and somewhat ‘hostile’ frontage to Waterworks Road, with large areas of unrelieved brickwork and detracts from the visual amenities of the locality.

“The proposal is to demolish the existing buildings to make way for residential apartments, accommodated within three separate buildings – two of which would be onto the Waterworks Road and Stansted Road frontages, with a more elongated building located to the rear southern part of the site.”

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The application states 28 of the apartments would be one bedroom with 29 units having two bedrooms and three three bedroom flats.

Eighteen of those would be affordable housing.

The application will be considered by council planning officers and councillors in the coming weeks.