2026 summer wildlife fair on 31 july, 11am-2pm !
HISTORY
The fight to save the Brickfield in 1997
It took over a year of protests, a 4 day public inquiry and 26 page report to save the Old Brickfield from the developers. Their plan was to fill the Brickfield with 67,000 cubic metres of soil and concrete, using lorries that would need to make 500 trips a week for a year. To give an idea of the scale of that, the Brickfield is just over 2 hectares - about the size of 2.5 football pitches. Fortunately, the public enquiry confirmed the Brickfield’s status as a much loved “strong feature of the Seaford landscape and a wildlife haven boasting a rare mix of grass, vegetation and salt marsh."
Eve and David Taylor, two of the founders of the Friends of Seaford Old Brickfield 1997, are still leading members of the group today. We owe them and all the members of the group back then a huge thanks.
The Brickworks on the Brickfield
This article from the Evening Argus 14 July 2009 speculates on the history of the Brickfield
