Rother Local Plan 2025-2042 – Development Strategy and Site Allocations

Object

Representation ID: 31476

Received: 20/03/2026

Respondent: Sedlescombe Parish Council

The proposed allocation, Sedlescombe SD10, is unsound for multiple reasons:

• It would cause unacceptable harm to the High Weald National Landscape.
• It contradicts longstanding evidence identifying the site as unsuitable.
• There is no demonstrable housing need.
• Access and highway safety remain unresolved.
• Flood risk has not been properly assessed.
• Ownership uncertainties call deliverability into question.
• Environmental impacts have not been adequately addressed.

The proposal conflicts with saved Core Strategy policies RA1, RA2, RA3, OSS1–OSS4,
and EN1, as well as national policy and the statutory duty under the CROW Act.

Accordingly, the Parish Council respectfully requests that Site SD10 be removed from the Local Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 31477

Received: 20/03/2026

Respondent: Sedlescombe Parish Council

Proposed allocation, Sedlescombe SD11, is unsound for the following reasons:

• There is no clearly evidenced need for housing at this scale within Sedlescombe.• The site is detached from the settlement and would cause unnecessary harm to the
High Weald National Landscape and is conflict on Landscape grounds with the NPPF
para 189.
• There is no realistic prospect of achieving safe highway visibility splays, even with
substantial hedgerow removal and therefore the site does not meet the deliverability
test for allocating a site.
• The land is constrained by a Section 106 agreement and is therefore not legally
available for development.

Accordingly, the Parish Council respectfully requests that Site SD11 be removed from the
Local Plan site allocations.