Brighton street set for revamp after trial success

8:50am Wednesday 20th February 2013 in News

An artist's impression of how the open space in Ann Street and Providence Place could look An artist's impression of how the open space in Ann Street and Providence Place could look

A street is set to be revamped after the success of an open air common room.

Picnic tables, table tennis tables and artificial turf were all used to create the space in Providence Place and Ann Street in Brighton last year.

Brighton and Hove City Council, which led on the scheme with European funding, has now decided the trial was a success.

It will now look at ways it can work with the community to transform the area over the long-term as part of wider plans to revamp the London Road area.

Philip Wells, chairman of the London Road Area Local Action Team, said: “I hope this venture will be one of the ongoing private, public and community initiatives which will combine to make London Road a more and more successful place.

“London Road is on the up.”

Deputy council leader Phélim MacCafferty said: “We have been successful in securing a fair amount of funding for the initial stages of a permanent scheme and we hope that this will help to attract further investment, not just to this particular project, but also to the wider area within and around London Road.”

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Comments(10)

george smith says...
9:20am Wed 20 Feb 13

what happened to the turf and stuff?

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mustaphaLeeko says...
9:49am Wed 20 Feb 13

hahaha!

What a misleading artists impression...

He/She seems to have omitted the graffiti covered walls of the buildings opposite, which are topped with razor wire and big spikes to prevent the low lifes from breaking in and burgling them!

And what about the cars driving past as it's an access road, all those pedestrians strolling over it in the picture, laughable!

The whole area is a s...hole!

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leobrighton says...
11:59am Wed 20 Feb 13

An outrageous waste of money. The trial was a mess and must have cost a fortune. Sticking snooker table cover on the road and putting down picnic tables at the back of London Road and enough decking for a cruise liner behind the charity shops. This is what we are paying for and for what? Most people were just amazed at the utter waste of it all except for the kids who discovered a new place to muck around on their skateboards.

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Mel Shock says...
12:10pm Wed 20 Feb 13

But surely it could be an improvement ? if somewhere looks neglected and wasteful people will treat it as such............make it more appealing and people will use it..............yes it may attract an unwanted element at night etc but surely overall it is for the greater good.
That whole area needs regenerating, for those that live there, not new yuppies with fat wallets

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billy goat-gruff says...
12:11pm Wed 20 Feb 13

the only reason cars are down there is that they have out-of-date satnavs, or they have ignored the no-through road signs at the approach to Sainsbury's. I love seeing bewildered motorists' faces when they can't get to London Road and have to rejoin the maze that is the north Laine! I spent a happy half hour watching a huge lorry try to get round St Barts into Providence Place, holding up
several very angry rat-runners.

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bug eye says...
12:42pm Wed 20 Feb 13

surely the first thing to spend money on would be to clean up the area, put down attractive matching pavements and road surface, plant trees, take away clutter, have great seating and lighting, then lark around with table tennis and astroturf for the druggies. once the co-op building has been turned into a student hovel any improvements to the area wont last.

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Hove marauder says...
12:51pm Wed 20 Feb 13

mustaphaLeeko wrote:
hahaha!

What a misleading artists impression...

He/She seems to have omitted the graffiti covered walls of the buildings opposite, which are topped with razor wire and big spikes to prevent the low lifes from breaking in and burgling them!

And what about the cars driving past as it's an access road, all those pedestrians strolling over it in the picture, laughable!

The whole area is a s...hole!
Sadly this is more the case. Anyone who goes near there regularly knows that it is and will remain for a long time a place to go through rather than to. Decent people simply do not want to share space with people who are drunken/drugged/boor
ish.

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Tailgaters Anonymous says...
2:12pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Eco/green agenda must be running short of suitable material!
In country locations commons are open spaces that have real vegetation and four-legged wildlife, not Astroturf!

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lorrie1 says...
5:12pm Wed 20 Feb 13

The artist didnt draw all the special brew drinkers,soap dodgers and drug addicts sitting on the grass, rolling joints that i see Every day when i walk past

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Thumper Hove says...
7:00pm Wed 20 Feb 13

"London Road is on the up", now that has to be one of the stupidest sound-bites ever. If the LAT thinks this will be a great development then they are deluded, London Road needs a couple of bulldozers most of all.

However, this scheme will be a very nice area for tramps drunks and squatters to hang out....nice to see the council hasn't obtained a grip on what is important to the city.

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