ePetition - Save St Aubyns Playing Field in Rottingdean

• Developers want to build around 120 houses and flats on the former St Aubyns school site in the centre of the historic downland village of Rottingdean. More than half of these houses and flats are proposed to be built on the playing field.

• A development of this size will dramatically increase the number of vehicles along the A259 and on the village’s other, heavily congested, minor roads.

• The increase in traffic will, in turn, increase the vehicle pollution levels in the village which, on the High Street, already breach European Union legal limits. This pollution is a threat to the health of the village’s children and elderly in particular.

• The loss of the field as an open green space would mean the loss of a valuable amenity to the community. If the field is protected it could be used once again for outdoor recreation in order to benefit the health and social well-being of residents and future generations.

• The village infrastructure (e.g. sewers, parking, schools and doctors’ surgeries) would be put under an intolerable strain by such a large scale development.

• A construction project of the magnitude of 120 houses and flats, in the centre of this historic village, with all the attendant heavy vehicles, plant and machinery, would cause even higher levels of congestion, noise and dirt over at least a period of 2 years.

Additional Information

In 2014 Brighton and Hove City Council, working in conjunction with Rottingdean Parish Council, produced a draft Planning Brief for the former St Aubyns School site. In January 2015 this was approved by BHCC and it supports the preservation or enhancement of the Field for public use and also encourages its use for outdoor recreation in order to secure improvements in the health and social well-being of the local community.

Rottingdean Parish Council has since passed a resolution to designate the Field as a Local Green Space in its Neighbourhood Plan. The next step, to save the Field and secure its future for the public for ever, is for Brighton Council to designate the Field as Local Green Space in its City Plan. The more representations that are made to BHCC by the public to support this the more likely it is to do it.

Your views count and so please support this petition and help save the Field, and the future of Rottingdean and its residents.

This ePetition ran from 25/03/2015 to 15/07/2015 and has now finished.

788 people signed this ePetition.