IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Draft Rother Local Plan 2025–2042 – Development Strategy and Site Allocations: Public Consultation under Regulation 18 of The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 (as amended)
8 weeks public consultation period: 26th January – 23rd March 2026
Rother District Council has published its Draft Rother Local Plan 2025 – 2042 – Development Strategy and Site Allocations (the Draft Local Plan) for public consultation. The new Local Plan will guide development and land use in our district over the period 2025 – 2042.
The consultation period runs for eight weeks from Monday 26th January to 5:00pm on Monday 23rd March 2026.
About the Draft Local Plan
The Draft Local Plan and its supporting evidence base documents can be found on the Council’s website at https://www.rother.gov.uk/
The Local Plan is the blueprint for how Rother will grow and develop over the coming years. It ensures that homes, jobs, infrastructure and open spaces are carefully planned and delivered. It will also help ensure that the district’s attractive countryside is preserved and help address important issues such as affordable housing, climate change and nature recovery.
This version of the Draft Local Plan identifies proposed sites throughout the district, which could accommodation new housing and employment development in the future. Through this consultation, we are seeking views and comments on these proposed sites, to inform the final version of the draft Local Plan.
Why are we consulting?
The consultation provides an opportunity for everyone to comment on the Draft Local Plan. Feedback from the public, statutory consultees, and the development sector will help shape the next version of the Plan, which will then be subject to a further public consultation (Regulation 19 stage), anticipated in late summer 2026. Additional site suggestions are also welcomed. Following this process, a final version of the Local Plan will be submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for independent examination and subject to it being found sound, adoption by the Council.
How to Participate
Visit: https://www.rother.gov.
We are also accepting comments by email or post using the consultation form, which can be found on our website.
Hard Copies Available
Hard copies of the Draft Local Plan can be viewed at a number of locations including the Council Offices, and libraries. The full list of locations and their opening hours is available on our website at: https://www.rother.gov.uk/
If you have any questions, please contact us by email at: draftlocalplan@rother.gov.
THREE OAKS HALL HIRE – email : bookings@threeoaksvillagehall.org.uk
Weekdays £10 an hour Weekends £12 an hour (Electric meter takes £1 coins)
GUESTLING HALL HIRE – Colin Jury Tel : 01424 812584
The parish of Guestling and Three oaks lies about 4 miles north-east of Hastings on and around the A259.
Guestling is derived from the Anglo Saxon Gestling (Gesta’s family). Gestlinges is one of the three villages mentioned in the Domesday book as being part of the rape of Gestlinges, also including Luet( Modern Pett ) and Ramslie( a large manor including Fairlight ). The Main Court for the Western towns in the Cinque Ports was held at Guestling.
Three Oaks has its own village hall and Guestling village hall is beside the junction with the A259 and Church Lane which leads to Church of St Lawrence.
Hand made bricks are made in Fourteen Acre Lane, Three Oaks. The Guestling bricks are in great demand for restoring Churches and other old buildings. Customers have included Camber Castle, Hampton Court and Buckingham Palace.
Guestling and Three Oaks are served by two public houses. The Three Oaks in Butchers Lane and the White Hart on the A259.
One of England’s great scholars at the time of Shakespeare birth, was Gregory Martin. He was born in Maxfield, an old timbered house in Three Oaks. He became the tutor in the house of the Duke of Norfolk, and spent the last years of his life at Rheims. Here he translated the Latin Bible into English. He died in 1582 and is buried in Rheims.
The parish is crossed by a network of public footpaths and bridleways, providing great walking and panoramic views of the Sussex countryside.