SIGNS OF SAXON 'VILLAGE'

MOST of the former Baxters Printworks site in narrow St Nicholas Lane, Lewes, has now been spectacularly demolished to make way for a development of 14 affordable homes and 40 apartments.

By The Newsroom

Published 22nd Sep 2006, 11:08 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:36 BST

There remains just three months of ground clearance left to remove the thousands of tons of rubble to make way for construction of the 8 million Raven Group project which should start early next year.

Archaeologists will spend the intervening period examining the town centre site.

Preliminary work on the other side of the lane has already revealed signs of a 1,000-year-old Saxon settlement.

Said Clive Wilding, Raven managing director: 'The project has gone smoothly to date, given the scale of the task and the proximity of residential properties to the site.

'We are also salvaging some of the Baxters memorabilia, such as plaques and fences, and we hope to incorporate these in the new development.'

A quarter of the units in the 'Printworks' scheme will be affordable/shared equity and a further 30 per cent will be live/work properties.