Find here details on how to claim discounts, vouchers and the best way to get around locally.
Peacehaven has a wide range of local amenities and shops, such as sports facilities, youth centres, nursery schools and hairdressers, and cafes and restaurants serving a variety of cuisines.
Your basic provisions and leisure requirements are also located within a walk,cycle or bus journey! Some of the walking and cycling journey times are:
Providing access to a shopping area, library and post office, while being surrounded by other facilities including a leisure centre, community school, pharmacy, healthcare centre, and employment opportunities within an industrial estate.
• Northern exit journey time –14 minute walk
• Upper middle exit journey time –7.5 minute walk
• Lower middle exit journey time –5 minute
• Southern exit journey time –10 minute walk Sainsburys
Provides access to an onsite café with sports and recreational facilities, including playgrounds, a skatepark, cycle and walking paths, and sports clubs.
• Northern exit journey time –29 minute walk
• Upper middle exit journey time –22 minute walk
• Lower middle exit journey time –19 minute\
• Southern exit journey time –9 minute walk
Providing a local shopping area and dental surgery.
• Northern exit journey time –23 minute walk
• Upper middle exit journey time –15.5 minute walk
• Lower middle exit journey time –13 minute
• Southern exit journey time –10 minute walk Centenary
Walking and cycling have great personal health and fitness benefits. Sustrans, a sustainablt transport charity, explain that walking or cycling can burn calories, gets your heart pumping and works your legs and abs. Walking and cycling can also lift your mood, put a smile on your face and improve your general health and wellbeing.
It is easy to travel around Peacehaven by walking or cycling. National Cycle Route 2 passes through Peacehaven via Arundel Road and then onto the A259 Coast Road toward both Brighton and Seaford.
East Sussex has a large amount of attractive countryside waiting to be explored. Why not go on an adventure, or cycle for leisure on a routine basis? Visit the ‘Visit Brighton’ website or the Ordinance Survey maps website below to find out more.
To help you get out and about on your bike, the residential travel plan contains the offer to claim a voucher worth up to £100 for use on Halfords’ bikes and bike-related products (like helmets, baskets and lights). Have a look on https://www.halfords.com/cycling/. Twice a year, a Bike Doctor will visit the area to check any bikes which require any basic repairs. This service will be free of charge to Chalkers Rise residents. (Should significant repairs be necessary then they will be discussed with you).
Local walks and tours - www.visitbrighton.com/things-to-do/sports-and-leisure
Maps and cycle routes - explore.osmaps.com
General information - www.sustrans.org.uk
Halfords bike sales - www.halfords.com
Bike tools - https://brightonbikehub.org/
There are regular bus services such as the no. 14, 14C, 12, 12A and 12X which operate near Chalkers Rise, offering sustainable travel into Brighton City Centre with journey times of around 30 minutes. The bus services also travel to the surrounding areas such as Newhaven, Hangleton, Saltdean, Hove, Seaford and Eastbourne. In total these services provide on average 12 buses per hour.
As part of the residential travel plan, each household of Chalkers Rise is entitled to a free Network Saver Brighton and Hove bus company travel card which provides free bus travel for 6 months, and in addition another of the same cards which provides half price travel for 1 whole year. Please contact your Travel Plan Coordinator for more information and to obtain your pass.
As well as saving you money on fuel bills and improving local air quality, car sharing is a simple way to reduce the amount of traffic on the roads. You could car share journeys with family, friends, neighbours or colleagues and your employer may run their own scheme.You can also check websites such as BlaBlaCar (https://www.blablacar.co.uk/carpool) for options.
Car clubs provide the convenience of having a car without the hassle of having to own one. Car clubs are a self-service offering where you, as the customer, book a car online, by phone or via an app, and then go and drive it whenever suits you.
Car clubs allow the you to book a car for however long you wish to use it, providing a degree of flexibility that is not available from standard car hire. The vehicles are available 24-hrs a day and benefit from designated on-street parking bays.
There is already a car club bay especially for use by Chalkers Rise residents, located within the development. An initial 12-month membership has been provided to each household of the site (who have a valid driving licence), therefore all you have to do is register your details with the car club operator to benefit from free use for a whole year.
Tony at Enterprise on Tony.Barnard@ehi.com
enterprisecarclub.co.uk
Local walks and tours - www.visitbrighton.com/things-to-do/sports-and-leisure
Maps and cycle routes - explore.osmaps.com
General information - www.sustrans.org.uk
Halfords bike sales - www.halfords.com
Open access bike tools - https://brightonbikehub.org/
Enterprise Car Club - www.enterprisecarclub.co.uk
Brighton and Hove Bus Company - https://www.buses.co.uk/
Car sharing - https://www.blablacar.co.uk/carpool
