HL55 - Focus Area 2: Bohemia

Site reference: HL55
Site name: Summerfields

Focus Area/Strategic Policy: Focus Area 2: Bohemia

Use: Residential led mixed use including community/cultural and smaller scale office/light industrial uses (subject to relocation of the leisure centre)

Indicative capacity (net residential dwellings/floorspace): 250

Site specific development considerations based on draft Local Plan policies:

Development on this site should:

• Provide 25% affordable housing required in line with policy SP2
• Be part of a comprehensive or coordinated development of Bohemia, subject to the relocation of the existing leisure centre
• Create a network of green infrastructure and opportunities to play on site
• Retain mature trees on site and include measures to protect Summerfields Wood Local Nature Reserve
• Relocate existing civic functions
• Incorporate cycle and pedestrian routes to Hastings Town Centre, Summerfields Woods, Amhurst Gardens, the Bohemia and Tower Local Centre, Central St Leonards and the seafront

The following image shows a map of the site boundary

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