East Sussex County Council: preliminary records for Town Map Area 4 (Seaford, Newhaven,...

The plans listed below and as DL/A/8 and 13 are preliminary plans drawn and records created in the preparation of the final plan, and were passed by the County Council to Lewes District Council in 1974. For convenience, documents relating to amendments to the Seaford Town Map, including one dated after 1974 (DL/A/7/136 below), have been included in this class. Former departmental reference numbers are given in the Archival History field.

<p>For files of Lewes District Council and ESCC files concerning planning in this area, 1948-1976, see DL/A/16-17; for Peacehaven and Telscombe planning proposals, 1950 see C/P 16/1-5; for Seaford, Newhaven, Peacehaven and Telscombe town map land-use survey sheets, c1949 and 1958, see C/P 44/1-2; for community and land-use surveys for Seaford, Newhaven, Peacehaven and Telscombe, 1951-1958 see R/P 22/35-44, 80-83; for the plan as submitted to the Minister in 1973 see C/P 1/77-82; 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 material submitted to the Minister of Housing and Local Government and approved in 1973 is listed as C/P 1. Town Map Number 4 covered an area which formed part of three pre-1974 local authorities: Chailey RDC and Newhaven and Seaford UDCs. DL/A7 includes plans created in the 1940s and early 1950s by those authorities, prior to work on the Town Map (DL/A/7/1-12, 20-39), 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 (DL/A/7/13-19, 40-130). In 1974 the preparation of such plans became a responsibility of District Councils and much of the material which had been created in the course of the preparation of the development plan was passed by the County Council to District Councils.