£10m plans for family housing

3:10pm Tuesday 29th January 2013 in News By Tim Ridgway, Local government reporter

An artist's impression of the School Road development An artist's impression of the School Road development

Dozens of family homes could be built as part of a £10million redevelopment of an industrial estate.

The first pictures of the proposal to replace the low-rise industrial blocks in School Road, Hove, can now be seen.

The proposal will be on show in more detail at an exhibition this week before a planning application is submitted to Brighton and Hove City Council.

Ross Barbour, the managing director of Crowborough-based Cross Stone Urban Regeneration, said: “We’re very excited about School Road and really looking forward to moving it forward.

“We believe we can do something there which is quite different from other developments in Brighton and Hove.

“We’re looking forward to receiving feedback from the community to our proposals, which we feel are appropriate for the scheme’s location and provide much-needed homes as well as business space.”

62 homes

Discussions about the site, which contains about 52,000sqft of industrial units, have been ongoing with the local authority for about a year.

The plot, on the east side of the road opposite West Hove Infant School, includes Tyre Express and Westows play area.

The proposals are to provide 58 two and three bedroom homes, four flats and 15,000sqft of employment space.

A public consultation is being held on Thursday, January 31 from 3.30pm to 7pm at the Written Word Church in School Road.

Mr Barbour said work would start soon after planning permission was granted, but only once it had worked with occupiers to help find new premises with minimum disruption.

Talking point: To what extent to you welcome the plans for School Road, Hove? Share your views by commenting below or email The Argus letters pages letters@theargus.co.uk

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Comments(20)

mimseycal says...
3:30pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Family housing require an infrastructure to support the residents.

It is all very well planning 58 two and three bedroom houses but where are these residents to find school places, dentists, doctors ...

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ShorehamBeachcomber says...
6:53pm Tue 29 Jan 13

58 family homes = 100 cars

Lets all count the number in the mock up......I can see 4

totally ludicrous, totally

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Hove Actually says...
7:02pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Stop whining everyone, the dear old greens will build the homes and then use the money from the parking tickets and residents permits to bus the kids to ....... God knows where for their schooling

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Bob_The_Ferret says...
8:08pm Tue 29 Jan 13

There appears to be no apparent parking provision in an already busy area, and how many dozens of jobs will be lost when the 52,000 sq ft of industrial space is lost forever.

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BrightonArchitect says...
9:12pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Here comes the pointless protests. When the Gala Bingo site was proposed for flats the locals said build houses. This scheme proposes house. So shut up! There are tone of parking spaces in the area and no waiting lists for permits. What will you find next to moan about?

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mimseycal says...
9:57pm Tue 29 Jan 13

BrightonArchitect wrote:
Here comes the pointless protests. When the Gala Bingo site was proposed for flats the locals said build houses. This scheme proposes house. So shut up! There are tone of parking spaces in the area and no waiting lists for permits. What will you find next to moan about?
School places? Or is that not allowed?

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southseasteve says...
10:03pm Tue 29 Jan 13

BrightonArchitect wrote:
Here comes the pointless protests. When the Gala Bingo site was proposed for flats the locals said build houses. This scheme proposes house. So shut up! There are tone of parking spaces in the area and no waiting lists for permits. What will you find next to moan about?
Dunno what planet you're on. I live round the corner and rarely get a parking space without a search. Now add these premises and the new flats on the gala bingo site. It's gonna get a whole lot worse!

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BrightonArchitect says...
10:04pm Tue 29 Jan 13

It's always parking and if that fails school places. New housing pays for new schools.

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BrightonArchitect says...
10:17pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Ok. Apply for a permit tomorrow. If you don't get one you are right. If you do I'm right. Simple.

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Bt'n-breezy says...
10:21pm Tue 29 Jan 13

From the picture it looks as if most of the homes are terraced houses. I think terraced houses offer a good solution to housing needs (rather than high rise)and perhaps the planning presumption should be to have terraces unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

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hurdygurdy says...
10:25pm Tue 29 Jan 13

There is a fantastic bus service along Portland Road, and two local, well serviced stations. There are also several car club cars nearby. A family does not necessarily require a car, let alone two (which is arguably irresponsible). My family has lived in the area for around six years without owning a car, although we appreciate that we are lucky enough to be able to commute on public transport. Schools are definitely a problem.

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mimseycal says...
10:40pm Tue 29 Jan 13

BrightonArchitect wrote:
It's always parking and if that fails school places. New housing pays for new schools.
Well ... school places have been a bit of an issue here in Brighton & Hove. Or haven't you been keeping up with the news?

http://www.theargus.
co.uk/news/10158837.
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http://www.theargus.
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Athena says...
1:14am Wed 30 Jan 13

As everyone's complaining about a lack of parking, the obvious thing to do is build a multi-storey car park instead. No? Thought not.

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BNJuan says...
10:34am Wed 30 Jan 13

Apparently they are proposing an underground car park for 89 vehicles.

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jimquadorig says...
11:42am Wed 30 Jan 13

All you moaners are lucky to have a home- build lots more homes! We need to house all the new people moving to the UK over the last 10 years. 10 million is a lot of people!

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happyinsussex says...
12:58pm Wed 30 Jan 13

I hope they are laid out like this as it is less cars outside your front door. Kids can play out the front with friends safely. Parking is an issue there now. Not every house will have a car. More detailed plans will be submitted if they want planning permission

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BC1973 says...
7:29pm Thu 31 Jan 13

BrightonArchitect wrote:
It's always parking and if that fails school places. New housing pays for new schools.
It's always those things because that is what's important to residents in areas like this where supply is far outstripped by demand.

Any decent architect (and I know a few) knows this and has these things in mind.

Granted it's not solely down to the architect and the council have to shoulder the bulk of the blame/burden.

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BC1973 says...
7:33pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Just been to the planning consultation. A few angry residents hogging the time of the representatives so I didn't get to speak to anyone. Looks like a nice development but, as far as school admissions go, I guess we're done for now what with this and the bingo hall development... And we're literally just down the road.

Still, at least this development will pay for a new local school that my kids and the others can go to eh BrightonArchitect?

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BrightonArchitect says...
8:35pm Thu 31 Jan 13

BC1973 wrote:
Just been to the planning consultation. A few angry residents hogging the time of the representatives so I didn't get to speak to anyone. Looks like a nice development but, as far as school admissions go, I guess we're done for now what with this and the bingo hall development... And we're literally just down the road. Still, at least this development will pay for a new local school that my kids and the others can go to eh BrightonArchitect?
Do your kids not have a school place ?

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lmjenk says...
3:25pm Sun 10 Feb 13

Hurrah, at last family housing, I know so many young families living in small 2 bedroom flats, in the mews where we live we are surrounded by smug retirees with fat pensions (thing of the past), couples in 3 bedroom houses. Sadly I worry for all the local families looking for school places, drs etc... Hove is so much busier than when my family moved here in 1981, so I am feeling quite smug now moving my own family far from here for a quiet rural life. So if it's any consolation we'll be freeing up a few school places. Cheerio Hove and good luck with the development, I hope it works out (???)

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