Brighton and Hove Council unveils radical plans for Valley Gardens

9:31am Thursday 31st January 2013 in News

NEW plans will be unveiled today for radical changes to a gateway used by hundreds of thousands of people a year.

Valley Gardens, which runs from The Level to the Palace Pier, is one of the major routes for people visiting Brighton and Hove’s seafront.

Brighton and Hove City Council wants to limit traffic flow to one side of the green space.

It will hold a series of street talks on its plans for improving the public spaces and routes for pedestrians, cyclists, drivers and public transport.

The first road shows take place today (January 31) from 10am to 11.30am in front of Brighton Pier, from 12 noon to 1.30pm in Pavilion Gardens, 2pm to 3.30pm in Victoria Garden, from 4pm to 5.30pm in New Road, and from 6pm to 7.30pm in St Peter’s Church.

A roadshow will also be held at the same venues and times on Saturday, February 2.

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Comments(17)

Morpheus says...
9:36am Thu 31 Jan 13

April Fool's Day is here already.

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biker brighton says...
9:38am Thu 31 Jan 13

what a good idea to put off more people coming into a dying town

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upsidedowntuctuc says...
9:47am Thu 31 Jan 13

They surveyed with questions like 'If you could access Victoria Gardens more easily and was more attractive would you be more likely to use it?'

Keep an eye out for the next 'consultation'
(Bet none of you apart from Bricycle members who were tipped off by the their green stooges saw the Victoria gardens on line 'consultation')

http://consult.brigh
ton-hove.gov.uk/port
al

Look weekly and vote as these come up as this is how they claim majority of residents want it etc

Elm Grove Ruination oh sorry 'Improvement' is up on it at mo get voting and get consulted the Mung Shoot brigade are two weeks up on the rest of us with less than two weeks to go..

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Mylex58 says...
9:48am Thu 31 Jan 13

Strange there's no mention of how motorists will then get OUT of the city! Perhaps cars will be boarded on to boats and ferried along the seafront to Portslade?

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censored says...
10:11am Thu 31 Jan 13

I distinctly remember visiting a Valley Gardens consultation roadshow, choosing my favourite for about 5 different ideas, filling in a detailed questionnaire about what I do and would use the area for, what I liked and wanted to see. This was at least 4 years ago.

So why are we doing it again?

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bogs says...
10:19am Thu 31 Jan 13

More messing up the town for everybody!

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Crystal Ball says...
10:40am Thu 31 Jan 13

Interminable roadworks, loss of and over-priced parking, woeful park-and-ride and a mad-as-a-fish Council with equally mad ideas for the town.

Brighton was a place many people aspired to living in but that has been thoroughly stamped-out.

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Omnishambles_1 says...
10:42am Thu 31 Jan 13

biker brighton wrote:
what a good idea to put off more people coming into a dying town
Then please leave, stop moaning you loser!

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brightonian57 says...
10:49am Thu 31 Jan 13

Will no one rid us of this turbulent council?

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HJarrs says...
10:54am Thu 31 Jan 13

upsidedowntuctuc wrote:
They surveyed with questions like 'If you could access Victoria Gardens more easily and was more attractive would you be more likely to use it?'

Keep an eye out for the next 'consultation'
(Bet none of you apart from Bricycle members who were tipped off by the their green stooges saw the Victoria gardens on line 'consultation')

http://consult.brigh

ton-hove.gov.uk/port

al

Look weekly and vote as these come up as this is how they claim majority of residents want it etc

Elm Grove Ruination oh sorry 'Improvement' is up on it at mo get voting and get consulted the Mung Shoot brigade are two weeks up on the rest of us with less than two weeks to go..
Thanks for the Tip about Elm Grove, I shall be commenting on the disgaceful situation of cars driving down pavements (not a pleasant experience when walking on the same pavement with small child).

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Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit says...
11:57am Thu 31 Jan 13

Point of order: it's not a 'Gateway'. By definition a 'Gateway' is at the entrance, this more 'hallway'. By the time you're going past The Level you're already well into Brighton - and if you're a visitor you'll be wondering why you bothered, and you'll be wondering if the Council don't want cars in the town centre (fair enough) why they don't provide out-of-town car parks and park 'n' ride.

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bug eye says...
12:18pm Thu 31 Jan 13

sleepwalking into congestion charge... unfortunately we have a pathetic council opposition, their leaders are weak and could stop this anytime. there should be a vote of no confidence in all parties.

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billy goat-gruff says...
12:32pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Why not concrete it over to build a giant car park? I'm sure that's what most of the Argus moaners would prefer, or is it not close enough to the shops?

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BrightonHoveboy says...
2:30pm Thu 31 Jan 13

April fools day, dying town? No. Dead in the water. The greens have finally sunk us. But it won't matter to them because they will just up sticks and go onto another town like they did when they came here. And good riddance to them

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Mr P Brown says...
3:00pm Thu 31 Jan 13

BrightonHoveboy wrote:
April fools day, dying town? No. Dead in the water. The greens have finally sunk us. But it won't matter to them because they will just up sticks and go onto another town like they did when they came here. And good riddance to them
Do you honestly think any where is going to vote the greens in, now they see how they have wrecked Brighton and Hove?

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upsidedowntuctuc says...
3:15pm Thu 31 Jan 13

They are not bothered about being voted back in they know it's a non starter. This is about getting 'brownie points' for Kitkat within their party (mainly camping at Bexhill/Hastings at mo)
Where next for them Follett came from Leicester maybe he'll go back?
Others like Davey back into their holes or their Planet Zog.

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Bob_The_Ferret says...
6:37pm Thu 31 Jan 13

Here's a link to the latest threat from the green goons.:

http://www.brighton-
hove.gov.uk/download
s/bhcc/transport/val
ley_gardens/VG_propo
sed_masterplan.pdf

They ludicrously claim that their modelling predicts that squeezing all southbound and northbound traffic into the city into a single lane each way, will have no negative affect. After the farce we already seeing on Lewes Road, and about to see at Seven Dials, why on earth should we believe them again.

The perpetrators of this madness should be chained to rusty girders on the West Pier and left to the seagulls.

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