Residents, business owners and councillors have reportedly shared "a sense of great relief" after the scaffolding which has scarred Talland Parade in Seaford for many years was finally removed.
Lewes District Council chiefs said that the authority's lodging of a public nuisance claim in the High Court was partly responsible for creating the tipping point that led to the eyesore's dispersal.
This came after exhausting every other possible legal avenue in the effort to have the scaffolding taken down.
In particular, the Seaford Residents' Voice group has produced a string of legal measures, Freedom of Information Act requests and research on the property's owners.
A High Court judge subsequently ordered Vision Properties to take down the scaffolding by July 25.
Visiting the site for meetings on Wednesday (26 July), Councillor Zoe Nicholson, Leader of Lewes District Council said:
"It has been a long, painstaking struggle to get rid of this eyesore, so it is a great relief to the many people involved in campaigning for its removal that this day has finally arrived.
"Among those who have worked so hard on this over the years are Seaford Residents' Voice, Seaford Town Council, council officers, our legal team and councillors in the current administration as well as those previously in Cabinet, notably Councillor Stephen Gauntlett and Councillor James MacCleary.
"My thanks to them all for their efforts and unflinching determination to get this done.
"For such a long time, residents and businesses in Seaford town centre had to endure living under the scaffolding's shadow and we were given countless empty promises by the owners that it would be taken away.
"The only recourse left to us was to initiate a High Court action and I am pleased this route has given us the result many people fought so diligently for."
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