Convent future under debate

Opponents of the proposed redevelopment of the convent site in Magdalen Road, St Leonards, have called a meeting to be held in the White Rock Hotel on Sunday 3 February at 3pm.

Here they will discuss alternatives to the plan for a high-density residential development involving 165 dwellings put forward by the Goicolea family of Spain which owns the site.

The Local Development Framework scheme may offer a way forward, opening the possibility of having the site designated as private open space and the grounds to the north, where the new dwellings will be sited, removed from allocation to housing, according to Maureen Jarvis, one of the opponents of the Goicolea plan.

Such a proposal could be made as part of the LDF public consultation which started on 3 February and will run to 27 April. In this connection an exhibition will be held from 10am to 1pm on Wednesday 8 February at the Gensing and Central St Leonards Community Centre.

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