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Care home

The Haven

40 Ambleside Avenue, Peacehaven, BN10 7LP · East Sussex · South East

5 beds · operated by Lifeways Community Care Limited, part of Lifeways Community Care

CQC overall rating
Requires improvement21 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old

Diligence verdict

Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 3 years old, and 10 of this operator's 35 rated homes are below Good.

Below Good on
EffectiveRequires improvement29 Jun 2022rating 3+ yrs old
ResponsiveRequires improvement21 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Well-ledRequires improvement21 Jun 2023rating 3+ yrs old
Age of rating
3 years old — published 21 Jun 2023. CQC has not re-inspected since; a re-inspection could move it in either direction.
Operator's wider portfolio
10 of 35 of Lifeways Community Care Limited's rated homes are Requires improvement or Inadequate. See the operator.

Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

The five key questions

Key questionRatingPublished
SafeGoodrating 3+ yrs old21 Jun 2023
EffectiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old29 Jun 2022
CaringGoodrating 3+ yrs old7 Sep 2019
ResponsiveRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old21 Jun 2023
Well-ledRequires improvementrating 3+ yrs old21 Jun 2023

Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

Same operator — 48 other locations

Other active services registered to Lifeways Community Care Limited. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.

NameOverall rating (published)Local authority
1 & 2 Flax CottagesRequires improvement29 Sep 2025Northumberland
Abbeymoor Neurodisability CentreGood12 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs oldGateshead
Ash HouseRequires improvement20 Jun 2025Coventry
BarleycombeGood17 Dec 2025Suffolk
Beeton GrangeGood31 Dec 2025Birmingham
BulwellGood22 Jan 2026Nottingham
Cambridge ParkGood29 Oct 2022rating 3+ yrs oldRichmond upon Thames
Elm Tree HouseGood13 Jan 2022rating 3+ yrs oldRochdale
Greenlands ViewRequires improvement2 Dec 2023Birmingham
Kingdom HouseGood23 Sep 2025Rotherham
Lifeways BrightonGood30 Nov 2021rating 3+ yrs oldBrighton and Hove
Lifeways Community CareNot RatedLeicestershire

…and 36 more. See the full group view.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

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Provenance & registration
Registered with CQC
10 Aug 2018
Beds
5
Sector
Social Care Org
On CQC’s site
cqc.org.uk/location/1-5442188628

Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 11 Jul 2026as published by CQC, bulk files of 01–08 Jul 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.