SHELAA 2020 - TC1 - Priory Street car park and ESK

Site reference: TC1  
Site name: Priory Street car park and ESK

Focus Area/Strategic Policy: Focus Area 1: Hastings Central

Use: Commercial/employment led mixed use to complement the function of the town centre.  Option to include residential uses potentially taking inspiration from creative development of multi-storey car parks in regeneration areas in other towns, which have ranged from incorporation of power league pitches, to pop up leisure, and start-up units

Indicative capacity (net residential dwellings/floorspace): 10,000sqm and up to 120 residential units

Site specific development considerations based on draft Local Plan policies:  

Development on this site should:

• Enable better placemaking response at key point of arrival in the town, with associated scope to change perceptions
• Provide opportunity for creative year-round leisure focused development combining an innovative range of uses
• Provide an active frontage along Priory Street, and landmark building at corner with Cambridge Road to complement former post office building and Priory Square
• Provide active uses at ground floor level which should include retail, leisure or other 'town centre' complementary uses;
• Improve public realm and support promotion as a secondary route to the town centre and Bohemia;
• Retain an element of town centre car parking on this site as part of town provision subject to securing appropriate and safe access and servicing
• Preserve and enhance the setting of the conservation area, and long-range views of and from Hastings Castle.
• Provide appropriate measures to mitigate the impact of noise on residential dwellings due to location within the active night-time economy setting
• Provide 25% affordable housing where new residential development is built in line with policy SP2

The following image shows a map of the site boundary. 

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