A PLACE SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

Shoreham Cement Works will grow as a community where everyone, regardless of age, would have a place to thrive. It will provide homes of a mix of sizes, typologies and affordability, where open spaces and services will be shared by the community. A diversity of work spaces will be present across the whole development, and these will adapt to people’s work’s needs in terms of size of space, typologies and nature of business activities. No dirty or traffic-heavy industries would be allowed, to ensure the quality of place for residents, workers and visitors.

Visitors will also be at the centre of the new community, and it is that the site will be open access land for everyone to enjoy. Shoreham Cement Works and the quarry will become a regional visitor attraction that will draw walkers and cyclists to the site and the wider South Downs National Park. The majority of people will travel by public transport, walking or cycling as connections to nearby settlements and transport hubs will be convenient and safe and private car use will be restricted.

The community will be carbon neutral in terms of embodied and operational carbon, where renewable energy is produced and stored on site, in line with Government’s decarbonisation plans. It also aims to be a community where natural processes are embedded in the way places are designed and function, resulting in improvements in biodiversity and clean water resources.

Overall, the new living, working and visiting community of Shoreham Cement Works will be proud of belonging to this area of the South Downs, being at the vanguard of contemporary ways of life in a strong natural and cultural environment.

The new life for Shoreham Cement Works will grow with time. But the site will be designed to be active since its first intervention until the culmination of development in 2033.