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Central Avenue, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 7HD

Used car salesroom on the corner of Ambleside Avenue and South Coast Road, the A259. Converted in the 1980s from a former dairy. Ambleside Avenue runs from the cliff top north to Heathy Brow.

Council building housing the offices of Telscombe Town Council along with community spaces, situated on the A259 South Coast Road, completed in 2001.

This building, on the corner of Central Avenue, is the headquarters of Telscombe Town Council, which covers an odd area - Telscombe, the western part of the Peacehaven conrbation, as it were, and the eastern half of Saltdean. The Town Council was established within the local government reorganisation of 1974, having previously been Telscombe Parish which had been founded 50 years earlier. The Civic Centre was opened in February 2000 and fully open by early 2001.

Detail of the clock on the corner of Image, the headquarters of Telscombe Town Council. It is not obvious as a clock, and probably wouldn't attract the attention of any passers-by wishing to know the time! Nevertheless, an attractive little detail.

A view of the England Coast Path on the clifftop at Telscombe Cliffs, on the Sussex coast. This image was taken in July 2022 after a period of hot weather and a prolonged dry spell. The ground was very dry and grass had turned yellow.

Built in the 1960s as part of infilling undertaken by Lewes District Council to give some sort of form to the towns of Peacehaven and Telscombe. Both had been developed from the end of the First World War by selling individual plots often without basic utilities on unmade roads. Their piecemeal development was partially responsible for the 1947 Town Planning Act and it was only from 1958 onwards that both towns came under the district council's responsibility who in turn began focusing on developing the town as a whole starting with the metalling of the roads, the supply of basic utilities and filling in the large gaps between previously developed individual plots.

The road runs from The Esplanade northwards to Kirby Drive though once extended further to Telscombe Road. It was laid out in the first decade of the 20th century and like much of the settlement along with neighbouring Peacehaven it is built on a grid pattern and runs in a straight line. This view looks towards the junction with South Coast Road, the A259, with the Telscombe town council building on the left hand side of the crossroads.

Clifftop grassy area with houses in The Esplanade on the left.

Cliff top road running from this point just beyond Ambleside Avenue down to Fairlight Avenue. The cliffs below have no sea defences so the houses here have been built some distance from the cliff edge leaving a pleasant piece of open land for walking the dogs or strolling.