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Millennium Communities
The Millennium Communities site covers the
old Broomgrove Power Station site, the railway goods yards down to
Parker Road and Mount Pleasant Road, up to the old St. Helen's
Hospital site on Frederick Road. It's being redeveloped by Seaspace (the local
regeneration agency) to provide a new 'village centre' around the
old Ore Station, shops and business premises and around 450 new
homes, with a 'greenspace' area to be retained from the undeveloped,
green parts of the site.
The project is however way overdue -
originally, the first homes were scheduled to be handed over to
their new owners in 2003, but complications with land assembly put
paid to that. Since then, the economic downturn hasn't helped.
However, Bellway Homes have now signed the development agreement,
and work is starting on building 51 homes, a Tesco express and
office space around Ore station. However, the Tressell Ward
part of the site on Frederick Road, with its infamous 'road
to nowhere', is in some doubt. This is now phase 4, and will
not happen for the foreseeable future - probably for years.
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Broomgrove
Allotments Development Site
In spite of local opposition, and opposition
from Tressell councillors, a planning application to develop this
site (on the steep slope between Mount Pleasant Road and Broomgrove
Road) was agreed in 2008. One of the conditions of the
planning application was that Broomgrove Road, from Mount Pleasant
Road to the site access, should be improved - in effect, built to an
'adoptable' standard, apart from the surface layer, which would have
to be added after the development was finished.
Building work is now well underway. And
although the buildings seem to comply with the plans, there are
concerns about the engineering groundwork, and the road is still not up to the
required standard. Added
to all that, the temporarily footpath across the site is also blocked and unusable.
The Council believes the developer
now to be in breach of planning conditions, and will be taking
appropriate action. A prosecution is now pending.
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Upper Ore Valley
The Upper Ore
Valley (know locally as 'the 'Oller') is an area of undeveloped
wooded land extending from Frederick Road up to Victoria Avenue,
between Church Street and Old London Road. This wonderful,
unspoilt area of land is (in part) earmarked for housing
development, but many local people (and your Tressell councillors) believe
it should be retained as open space, and opened up for public
access. A local organisation called Ore Valley Action is
setting up a Community Land Trust to take over stewardship of
unregistered in the valley, and hopefully take over other land by
public agencies and others, gradually opening it up for public
access.
The Ore Community Land Trust
has been set up to oversee the work
in the valley, and management of the unregistered land.
Prince's Trust volunteers have been helping to clear the valley, and
various conservation days are being organised. Work on
clearing and tidying the valley has begun again, with volunteers
working most Saturday mornings.
If you'd like to
join or would like more information, the trust can be contacted at:
ore.clt@hotmail.com
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Road Safety
After years of
waiting and delays, the Sussex Arms junction scheme is completed.
However, safety issues still remain, with accidents occurring where
traffic turns right into Mount Road. We recently met East
Sussex County Council officers on site, with local residents.
ESCC officers will now prepare some proposals to improve the safety
of the junction. It will, however, always be a difficult junction to
get right, and to make it safe while not holding up traffic up too
long. Six roads meet here ...
Mount Pleasant Road safety works
were partially completed, But were not fully installed by the county
council because of in-year cuts in government funding.
The
mini roundabout in Frederick Road has now been removed, and
'Unsuitable for HGV' signs have now been installed in Frederick road
at the junction with Clifton Road. We'll keep an eye on that, to
see if they're effective. But the missing speed cushions have
still not been replaced - again, we'll keep pressure on the county
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