Simon Kirby, Member of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven is urging local residents to make their views known regarding the new planning application for Meadow Vale (now known as Land South Of Ovingdean Road, Brighton) which has recently been submitted to Brighton & Hove City Council.

The previous application to build 85 homes on greenfield land between Ovingdean, Rottingdean and Woodingdean was rejected by Brighton & Hove City Council’s planning committee and the subsequent appeal by the developers, Lightwood Strategic, was dismissed earlier this year by the Planning Inspectorate. 

The planning application this time is for “45 no one, two, three, four and five bedroom dwellings with associated garages, parking, estate roads, footways, pedestrian linkages, public open space and strategic landscaping.”

Alongside residents and the Save Our Deans group, the Kemptown MP has been opposed to development at this site for a long time, organising a petition of local residents, speaking at public meetings, repeatedly lobbying the Council and also writing to the then Minister of State for Planning, Brandon Lewis MP, on behalf of local residents.

Simon said, “I have always been consistent that any new development in the city should be on brownfield and city centre land rather than greenfield sites such as Meadow Vale and would encourage local residents to make their views known and put in their objections to the Council. The application number is: BH2016/05530.”