This section includes details about planning policy, issues and particular applications affecting the Round Hill area. Use the site directory (scroll down to the heading "Planning") to research specific properties.
When permit uptake reaches 80% or over within a controlled parking zone, BHCC requires applicants hoping for on-street parking space to submit a parking survey.
The Crescent Rd and Carelet parking surveys fail to mention the Council's Supplementary Planning Document SPD14 dealing specifically with car-free housing (a condition of approval attached to both schemes) and the 92% figure on permit uptake within the Area-J zone.
Demolition of existing buildings and erection of a part 2,3,4 and 5 storey building including basement to form 87 student rooms (Sui Generis), communal student facilities, plant room, cycle storage, 2no disabled parking spaces, recycling and refuse facilities, vehicular access and associated works.
The location of this proposed scheme is very close to residents at the east end of Richmond Road and the north end of D'Aubigny Road. The site is on the far side of the service road from the mouth of Hughes Road into Sainsbury.
Round Hill residents (interested in seeing that their conservation area is not boxed in by high buildings) will recall a 138-room scheme on the near side of the same service road which would have involved the demolition of Richmond House.
If they can do it in Ditchling Road, why can't they make a safe crossing point in Upper Lewes Road?
Brighton and Hove City Council has now redesigned its planning register. It is good to see that objections are made anonymous and are now saved under the DOCUMENTS TAB for the relevant applications.
When The Round Hill Society website was started in 2005, comments had to be submitted to the Council on paper. Therefore within the Council's current register, the documents tab for some very controversial objections (Veolia's original application to locate the WTS at Hollingdean Depot BH2006/00900 drew 2157 objections) contain the developer's professionally produced documents, but not the objections. Also The PLANS LISTS i.e. the Agendas and Minutes on the Planning Committee page only go back to May 2008. The effect is to make planning history a little one-sided.
The top row of buttons access indexes to some long articles, written in the heat of campaigning, but they are relevant to Round Hill and restore an element of balance to planning history. I have archived and deleted some of these articles (many of which use the same arguments), but feel better about doing this when long-running sagas have settled.
The bottom row of buttons do not relate to ongoing campaigns, but to subjects where some background information might prove interesting or helpful. The button on Community Policing would be relevant to residents wanting to run a Neighbourhood Watch or to lobby for more Police Community Support Officers.