East Sussex County Council: preliminary records for Town Map Area 6 (Lewes)

The plans listed are preliminary records drawn in preparation of the final plan: they were passed by the County Council to Lewes District Council in 1974 when the preparation of such local plans became a district responsibility. For the sake of convenience, two post-1974 documents, filed by Lewes DC with the earlier plans, have been listed with them as DL/A/8/60-61.

<p>For six maps prepared by the Lewes Borough Surveyor, showing a draft Town Planning Scheme and proposals for boundary changes, c1930-1933, see DL/A/8/23. For preliminary maps and plans for the Lewes town map, 1955-1961 see C/P 17/1-5; for plans of Lewes relief road, 1956-1961 see C/P 4/12-21; for community and land-use surveys for Lewes, 1955, 1973-1974 see R/P 22/34, 79; for papers of Stephen Davies, architectural technician, Planning Department, concerning town plan reports, see C/P 73.</p>

Under the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 the County Council was responsible for the preparation of a development plan which included town maps for urban areas in the county. The published material submitted to the Minister of Housing and Local Government and approved in 1973 is listed as C/P 1/46-47. Town Map number 6 covered the area of the Borough of Lewes, and DL/A/8 includes plans created in the 1940s and early 1950s by the Borough Council, and work by the County Planning Department on the map itself and on other planning tasks relating to what was to become the Lewes District.