Lewes District Council is preparing to take a major step toward delivering the long-delayed North Street Quarter regeneration, with Cabinet due to consider selling a key parcel of land to help unlock the wider scheme.
The move would enable the industrial brownfield site to be brought under single ownership, which is seen as essential for securing Homes England funding, attracting private investment, and advancing plans for a new health hub, flood defences, homes and community facilities.
The council bought most of the land earlier this year to protect the project and stop the site from being split up. Human Nature, the development partner leading the scheme, has now brought in Hollybrook, a mixed-use developer with experience in construction and development management, to support delivery of the next phase.
Council leader Zoe Nicholson said the project has reached “a pivotal moment” and stressed that single ownership is the key to unlocking the wider regeneration. She added: “Residents have been promised a transformational development that delivers far-reaching public benefit – they can all be assured that our focus is on putting the project on the strongest possible footing and ensuring that the partners involved have the capability, experience and commitment to make it happen.”
The North Street Quarter is described as a nationally significant and complex scheme, with 685 homes planned alongside flood protection and public spaces. The Cabinet is due to meet on 16 July, with papers published on the council’s website.
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