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Cliffe Residents Association AGM

On 20 Jun 2007 at 10:33pm Smiler wrote:

Hanover Homes presented their scheme for Chandlers Land including:
Good Points
Almost Carbon Neutral
No new vehicular access routes
Riverside walk
Slipway
Land decontamination
Speeding up flood defence work maybe

Bad Points
A 4 storey block of flats to block views and overlook
Roof gardens noisy
Pedestrian access to Morris Road
Noisy restaurant
Only space for 20 cars - get real

They should replace the restaurant with more homes and lose 2 storeys off the block of flats

On 20 Jun 2007 at 11:01pm The Tooth Fairy wrote:

Come on Smiler, it's a small price to pay for another pizza joint.

On 21 Jun 2007 at 6:09pm For The Record wrote:

The precedence for densely populated inappropriately tall buildings with roof gardens and inadequate parking has already been set............................Baxter's!

On 22 Jun 2007 at 1:36pm Mystic Mog wrote:

Too true FTR. I am told that precedence is not allowed under planning law...........so we should be alright then.
Smiler you missed out the bridge under good points

On 22 Jun 2007 at 2:36pm Spinster Of This Parish wrote:

Bridge?
I remember someone suggested a bridge from the railway land to the Cliffe a year or two again - is this a possibility now?

On 22 Jun 2007 at 3:50pm George Doors wrote:

It seems that it may well be a possibility. However it depends upon cash and section 106.

On 25 Jun 2007 at 10:16pm For The Record wrote:

Cash - that will pose no problem to the developers as people wishing to move to Lewes are willing to pay over the odds for property - not that that helps the people of Lewes!
Section 106 - not worth anything as the planning and building control depts will manipulate to their advantage.
So how many properties and businesses are proposed for this site?