The Catholic church of St Louis, King of France, opened on December 20, 1964 on Henley Road. It was constructed of high-alumina cement in modern style but was later declared unsafe and closed in October 1982, being replaced by a block of flats, Henley Court, in 1985-86.
Whitehawk Library opened in 1934, in a building in front of Whitehawk Primary School on Whitehawk Road, but was required for additional classrooms. A temporary library was set up in Rugby House, Rugby place in August 1969.
Princess Alexandra opened a new community centre and library, the largest of Brighton's branches, on November 9, 1973 in Whitehawk Road. Dame Flora Robson, the well-known actress, opened the toy library, at the same venue three weeks after.
A new school was built in Wilson Avenue in 1976 and originally called the Stanley Deason School, named after a former Brighton Mayor. The community sports hall and squash courts were added in 1984.
East Brighton Park housed the very first Municipal Camping Ground, opened by the mayor, Herbert Hone on May 14, 1938. It incorporated the buildings of the former Newhouse Farm, the farmhouse being used as the warden's residence, the flint barn as a hall and the stables as a toilet block. These probably date from the late 18th century.
Sheepcote Valley was the site of a rifle range in 1870, being laid out for the training of volunteer soldiers, giving the former Rifle Butt Road its name. In 1916 the tipping of certain types of rubbish commenced and in 1928 household rubbish from Rottingdean was dumped at Sheepcote.
The Brighton Corporation started large scale tipping in 1952 and continued for the next 30 years. It has been deemed that the valley has now been significantly filled and is now levelled for use as playing fields.
A small site for tipping bulky household rubbish remains and is well used. A golf driving range was in operation in 1982-4 but the whole area is scheduled for a large leisure development including dry ski-slopes, a boating lake, riding stables, a wildlife park, a hotel and a swimming pool.
In 1968 parts of the valley became a World War One battlefield, a re-enactment for Richard Attenborough's film, Oh! What a Lovely War, this included the construction of dozens of trenches complete with live rats. 