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STEPS TOWARDS AN AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
And stipulations

1 THE CURRENT APPLICATION
The current application (DM/18/1548: dated 19 April 2018) is by Ashgrove Homes Ltd
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(AHL) and GCP Developments Limited (GCP) to build 50 market and 21 affordable one and
two bedroom, mainly four storey, flats for elderly people and young families on the 0.84ha Page | 1
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Wealden House, EDF site (WH:EDF) in Lewes Road, RH19 3TB .
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The brownfield site was identified as suitable for the development of “50+” dwellings in the
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Sustainability Appraisal Update Report dated September 2015 and included in the Ashurst
Wood Neighbourhood Plan (AWNP) in March 2016. This was inspected and approved by
MSDC. AWNP is the determinative “made” plan for the village.

The site map, included in a Design and Access Statement submitted by AHL in early June
2018, is as follows;

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WH:LIC A

Figure 1: Site plan of the proposed WH:EDF development: consisting of 71 flats and 93 car parking spaces.
All compass annotations are only indicative

1 Classified by MSDC as a “major development” for the purposes of the Town and Country Planning
(Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015
2 1.977 acres- 86,111 sq.ft.
3 Built in 1952 as an emergency centre for Central Electricity as part of its plan to disperse its 7 centres as a
contingency during the Cold War
4 Technically outside the boundary of Ashurst Wood village
5 In a village referendum in 2016, 7.5% of residents voted in favour of developing the site and 1.7% against.
90.8% of residents did not vote.