Two sites in Brighton have been earmarked for at least 400 student flats
including the bus depot in Lewes Road. The bus company is expected continue to operate from the site which is near a number of other blocks of dedicated student flats. At least 250 flats are allocated for the site in the draft...
400 student flats planned for Brighton bus depot and supermarket site
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Unsuitable shared houses blooming in our quiet Brighton street
The hanging baskets have gone up today. Two to every lamppost in Bennett Road, shouting this is summer in our neighbourhood. Every year they make us smile because they say, okay, so we’re not the poshest part of town, but we’ve clubbed together to pay for these to make our community look as cherishe...
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Former store turned into two council flats in Brighton block
A former store room in a block of flats in Brighton has been converted into two homes for council tenants. The conversion, in a block in Grove Hill, Brighton, is part of a pattern of turning some unlikely spaces into new homes. Brighton and Hove City Council said: “Three more projects to convert ‘hi...
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Most Brighton and Hove council tenants fall into rent arrears after switch to universal credit
Most council tenants in Brighton and Hove fell behind with their rent after being switched to universal credit, according to an official report. It said that more than two thirds of people on universal credit living in council homes in Brighton and Hove could not pay their rent in the first three mo...
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Plans for 300 new homes go on show in Brighton and Portslade
The initial plans for more than 300 new homes are to go on show in Brighton and Portslade in just over a week’s time. The proposed homes, on two sites, are the first fruits of a £120 million joint venture between the housing association Hyde and Brighton and Hove City Council. The sites are on land ...
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Planning forum prepares to update neighbours on progress in Hove station area
Hove Station Neighbourhood Forum is holding its next public Have Your Say Day tomorrow (Saturday 7 July) shortly before England’s World Cup quarter-final match with Sweden. The event is taking place at the Honeycroft Centre, in Sackville Road, Hove, and offers an opportunity to hear about the commun...
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Multimillion-pound build-to-rent housing scheme planned for brownfield site in Hove
A multimillion-pound build-to-rent scheme is being planned for one of the biggest brownfield sites in Hove. The developer Moda Living set out its vision for the Sackville trading estate and the neighbouring old coal yard in a presentation to neighbours at the weekend. The company is hoping to build ...
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More money for Brighton’s rough sleepers
More money is going into helping rough sleepers in Brighton and Hove The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) awarded Brighton and Hove City Council a £495,107 grant in an effort to move 300 people off the streets. On Tuesday (10 July) the council’s Health and Wellbeing Boar...
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Greens criticise soaring payments to private landlords for emergency accommodation
The cost of emergency and temporary accommodation has soared in five years as the number of homeless people in Brighton and Hove has gone up. The Green Party has criticised the council for paying private landlords more than five times as much for short-term places as it did five years ago. Councillo...
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University cuts ties with student house developer ‘after bogus endorsements’
The University of Sussex has cut ties with a student developer who has been aggressively converting or enlarging student homes on Brighton’s estates, residents have been told. Rivers Birtwell, which has bought dozens of properties in Bevendean, Coldean and Moulsecoomb to rent to students, has ...
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Hundreds oppose plan to replace Hove house with flats
More than 200 people have objected to plans to replace a house with flats in Shirley Drive, Hove. Plans for the house on the corner of The Droveway and Shirley Drive, Hove, involve demolishing the existing building to make way for ten flats. Concerns range from an increase in traffic and parking pro...
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Greater Brighton bosses pull in millions of pounds for key local projects
Millions of pounds of government money is going towards new education, business and digital projects in the Greater Brighton region as well as towards building thousands of homes, according to a new report. They were set out in the Greater Brighton Economic Board annual report which was formally app...
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Mother and disabled son win council apology after being housed next to violent neighbours from hell
A homeless mother and her severely autistic son have won compensation and an official apology after they were threatened by neighbours in the block the council housed them in. The local government ombudsman has ordered Brighton and Hove City Council to publicly discuss the outcome of its investigati...
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Six blocks of flats approved for old Amex office site in Brighton
Six blocks of flats up to eight storeys high have been approved for the site of the old American Express “wedding cake” building in Edward Street, Brighton. The developer First Base was granted permission to build 168 flats as well as offices, shops and cafés on the site despite 96 letters of object...
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Plan to turn Hove house into flats rejected
Plans to turn a detached house into a block of ten flats were refused by Brighton and Hove City Council planners. More than 200 people wrote to the council to oppose the outline plans to demolish the house at 10 Shirley Drive, on the corner of The Droveway. Concerns were raised about the size of the...
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More student house conversions on Brighton estates approved
Three former family homes will become student houses after approval from Brighton and Hove planners. Councillors reluctantly gave permission for the conversions at 58 Staplefield Drive in Moulsecoomb, 96 Auckland Drive in Bevendean and 12 Twyford Road in Coldean. During discussions at planning comm...
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Hundreds of low-cost homes planned for Brighton hospital site
Hundreds of low-cost homes for working people in Brighton and Hove are being planned for the Brighton General Hospital site. As many as 400 to 600 homes could be built by the £120 million joint venture set up by Hyde housing association and Brighton and Hove City Council. Council leader Daniel Yates...
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Greater Brighton relies on working with our partners
I spend a lot of my time working on partnerships (I may have mentioned this once or twice already) and with partners on trying to deliver the services, infrastructure and growth that will meet the needs of our city for future generations. One strong example of the benefits of this approach to workin...
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Third Brighton Labour councillor deselected
A third Labour member of Brighton and Hove City Council has been deselected as the party chooses its slate for the local elections in May next year. Councillor Dan Chapman, who chairs the council’s Children, Young People and Skills Committee, became the second Queen’s Park ward councillor to miss ou...
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Neighbours oppose plan to build flats on synagogue
Neighbours are objecting to plans to build flats on the site of an orthodox synagogue. The Brighton and Hove Hebrew Community plans to replace its existing synagogue, community hall, nursery and rabbi’s house within the new complex in New Church Road, Hove. As well as replacing the nursery and...
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