{"id":788298,"date":"2026-10-01T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788298\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:28:09","slug":"morrisons-could-be-built-on-peacehaven-shopping-centre-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788298\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrisons could be built on Peacehaven shopping centre site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans to build a Morrisons supermarket at an aging shopping centre site in East Sussex will go before councillors for approval next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A revamped proposal to redevelop the Meridian Centre site in Peacehaven has been submitted to Lewes District Council, and will be debated by the authority&#8217;s planning committee next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service,<\/a> the new proposal makes some changes to previous plans which had been approved in 2023, including a smaller supermarket building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The construction of a new library building no longer features in the proposal, while planned renovations to the Community House centre will be smaller in scale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a report to the planning committee, officers say that part of the existing building will see some renovations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesman for the library service said East Sussex County Council &#8220;welcomes the principle of retaining library provision&#8221; in a central part of Peacehaven and &#8220;recognises the wider benefits of regeneration at the Meridian Centre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they said that further information was needed before the council could &#8220;determine whether the existing building represents a suitable long-term solution&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to build a Morrisons supermarket at an aging shopping centre site in East Sussex will go before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}