£15m scheme for Brighton's Lanes is unveiled (From The Argus)
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£15m scheme for Brighton's Lanes is unveiled
5:20pm Wednesday 6th March 2013 in News By John Keenan
PLANS: How the scheme for Brighton Square could look
A £15 million scheme to reshape Brighton’s famous Lanes has been unveiled.
Property developer Centurion Group and the RBS Global Restructuring Group have submitted plans for a comprehensive overhaul in the heart of the old city.
The two schemes, if approved, will create more than 115 new jobs and will feature the first new lane in the area for more than 30 years.
A new chapter RBS is seeking the council’s permission to build a new lane, to be called Hanningtons Lane, between Brighton Place and Meeting House Lane, replacing the old, part-derelict Hanningtons Department Store service yard and providing new links to North Street and Brighton Square.
The Timpson locksmith and shoe repair shop on North Street will be demolished and rebuilt on a smaller scale to make way for the new lane.
The scheme also features the Centurion Group’s plans for new residential and office accommodation with 15 new shops and a boutique hotel on Brighton Place.
Ed Allison-Wright, director at Centurion Group in Brighton Square, said: “After a year of due diligence and a successful pre-application consultation with traders and other key local stakeholders, providing valuable feedback that has enabled us to inform our design, we have submitted plans for a regeneration scheme that is aimed at marking the start of a new chapter for the heart of The Lanes.
“Brighton Square has lost some of its vibrancy and attraction, partly due to the success of the cultural quarter and North Laine, but also due to the lack of evolution and adaptation to the part derelict service yard, which has somewhat lost its spark in today’s market.
“Centurion Group’s connection with Brighton Square has spanned generations, as its original developer in the 1960s was Charles Hunnisett, the grandfather of our current executive chairman, Charles Draycott.
“We therefore seek to meet life-long ambitions for the group in relation to the Brighton Square portfolio, through implementing this scheme.”
Joss Brushfield, director in RBS Global Restructuring Group, said: “The proposed development will bring disused storage and service areas into economic use, generating jobs, attracting shoppers and tourists and creating economic and physical regeneration in the heart of Brighton.
“The design and quality needs to be of the highest standards in order to make this work with the rest of the Lanes and we are working in close co-operation with architects, Morgan Carn, agents Ellis & Partners and development managers Landid to ensure that we deliver the very best development, as Brighton deserves.”
Comments(27)
charlie smirke
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6:07pm Wed 6 Mar 13
wexler53 wrote:So did I !! Let's hope it will be a quality build for that area.
Phew!! For a moment, I thought it was another crackpot green party scheme...
pperrin
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6:15pm Wed 6 Mar 13
Dreading to see what was planned... but not green party nonsense at all!
First look at this seems good!
So where will the council provide affordable parking for customers of these new shops?
HJarrs
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6:22pm Wed 6 Mar 13
wexler53 wrote:I thought the Greens were ruining business 'last one turn the lights out' ...obviously not.
Phew!! For a moment, I thought it was another crackpot green party scheme...
This should fit nicely with the bike and pedestrian priority scheme for the area and fits with the Lewes rd and propsed victoria gardens cycle path developments.
Hove Actually
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6:23pm Wed 6 Mar 13
How about a scheme for Hove or Kemptown London Road or Lewes Road?
No just trying to shoe horn much of a muchness into an area that is already full of shops and shoppers most of the time
HJarrs
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6:29pm Wed 6 Mar 13
wexler53 wrote:I thought the Greens were ruining business 'last one turn the lights out' ...obviously not.
Phew!! For a moment, I thought it was another crackpot green party scheme...
This should fit nicely with the bike and pedestrian priority scheme for the area and fits with the Lewes rd and propsed victoria gardens cycle path developments.
pperrin
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6:30pm Wed 6 Mar 13
And if there is no parking is it just the people in the surrounding couple of miles who are going to support all these new shops?
Surely not!
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6:36pm Wed 6 Mar 13
mrroddis
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6:41pm Wed 6 Mar 13
Surely not! wrote:Here here! Does this comments section only exist to make the Mail Online look reasonable?
The more I read the comments on here the more I think I might put pencil to paper and mark my cross next to the Greens. Not because I think they are support them, but if they get up the noses of you sad ignorant lot they must be doing something right.
kkj
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6:46pm Wed 6 Mar 13
mrroddis wrote:Where? Where?
Surely not! wrote:Here here! Does this comments section only exist to make the Mail Online look reasonable?
The more I read the comments on here the more I think I might put pencil to paper and mark my cross next to the Greens. Not because I think they are support them, but if they get up the noses of you sad ignorant lot they must be doing something right.
leobrighton
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7:12pm Wed 6 Mar 13
Why should the developers spend £15 million in areas like London Road instead of this popular area?
Good to see a scheme like this in our city but still the petrol heads and anti-progress brigade moan.
HJarrs
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8:43pm Wed 6 Mar 13
SomethingsarejustwroI am a bit disappointed at your Trolling rate. It is has seriously declined.
ng wrote:
HJarrs wrote:The green party village idiot has contributed her usual nonsense. LOL
wexler53 wrote:I thought the Greens were ruining business 'last one turn the lights out' ...obviously not.
Phew!! For a moment, I thought it was another crackpot green party scheme...
This should fit nicely with the bike and pedestrian priority scheme for the area and fits with the Lewes rd and propsed victoria gardens cycle path developments.
However, have you any point to make regarding the article?
Hove Actually
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8:50pm Wed 6 Mar 13
leobrighton wrote:The council should provide affordable parking so the travelling public can pay towards the excessive business rates charges to the shops.
Why should the council provide cheap parking in the area?
Why should the developers spend £15 million in areas like London Road instead of this popular area?
Good to see a scheme like this in our city but still the petrol heads and anti-progress brigade moan.
A small shop in the centre of Brighton
will cost thousands of £s
Harry Shand
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11:23pm Wed 6 Mar 13
jyan
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2:06am Thu 7 Mar 13
chrisso
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4:51am Thu 7 Mar 13
monkeymoo
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5:00am Thu 7 Mar 13
This is a scheme for building flats and office blocks.
As with all proposals these days, the company has to show what it will bring to the area in return for permission to build.
Companies do not have to carry out their commitment if it is deemed they will suffer economically from doing so. The flats will be built, then they (might) pull out of everything else and claim "economic hardship".
Just as in other developments in B&H, Lancing, Seaford, and Lewes.
Hector66
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5:38am Thu 7 Mar 13
chilliman
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7:16am Thu 7 Mar 13
jyan wrote:Strangely, I've been asked many times "where are the proper shops like M&S, Primark and BHS" when I've been in The Lanes but never the other way round. When I've suggested they explore the smaller shops the comment is "Oh no, they don't interest us, we've got them where we live".
While you're at it, knock down Chuchill Square and replace that with more lanes and nice little interesting shops - that's want tourists want who bring in the money to Brighton not the shops you get everywhere else.
It's also a bit ironic that the only shop in that part of North St/The Lanes that I use is Timpsons and that could be demolished - OK, with a replacement built.
s_james
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9:22am Thu 7 Mar 13
upsidedowntuctuc wrote:It doesn’t directly, but I take the comment to be a response to numerous other silly comments on other articles on this site which have suggested that there would be no further private sector investment in Brighton due to the policies of the Green Party. This proposed scheme is one of many schemes in the pipeline that proves such claims are completely ludicrous.
HJarrs wrote:Ha Ha Ha Which part of this article has anything to do with the green party??
wexler53 wrote:I thought the Greens were ruining business 'last one turn the lights out' ...obviously not.
Phew!! For a moment, I thought it was another crackpot green party scheme...
This should fit nicely with the bike and pedestrian priority scheme for the area and fits with the Lewes rd and propsed victoria gardens cycle path developments.
How does this fit with the Lewes Road cycle path???
MUPPET!
HJarrs
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9:23am Thu 7 Mar 13
upsidedowntuctuc wrote:There are proposals from falmer through to the laines for improved cycle, bus and pedestrian facilities and access. I thought you read the argus? Hence, for many people there is a reasonable, practicle and cost effective alternative to the private car. The above development is in that area, that is how it all fits together.
HJarrs wrote:Ha Ha Ha Which part of this article has anything to do with the green party??
wexler53 wrote:I thought the Greens were ruining business 'last one turn the lights out' ...obviously not.
Phew!! For a moment, I thought it was another crackpot green party scheme...
This should fit nicely with the bike and pedestrian priority scheme for the area and fits with the Lewes rd and propsed victoria gardens cycle path developments.
How does this fit with the Lewes Road cycle path???
MUPPET!
heathgate
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9:30am Thu 7 Mar 13
jyan wrote:What a foolish comment, how about the people of Brighton? Whilst tourism is important, the people who actually live there need 'regular' shopping outlets, a good balance between independant and standard shopping offerings is the right way to go, best for all interest groups.
While you're at it, knock down Chuchill Square and replace that with more lanes and nice little interesting shops - that's want tourists want who bring in the money to Brighton not the shops you get everywhere else.
billy goat-gruff
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10:25am Thu 7 Mar 13
jyan
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11:48am Thu 7 Mar 13
heathgate wrote:No stuff the people of Brighton everyone shops online anyway. What everyone wants are little over-priced shops that look posh not your chavvy big shops,
jyan wrote:What a foolish comment, how about the people of Brighton? Whilst tourism is important, the people who actually live there need 'regular' shopping outlets, a good balance between independant and standard shopping offerings is the right way to go, best for all interest groups.
While you're at it, knock down Chuchill Square and replace that with more lanes and nice little interesting shops - that's want tourists want who bring in the money to Brighton not the shops you get everywhere else.
jyan
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11:50am Thu 7 Mar 13
chilliman wrote:Go to Crawley if you want those sort of low market shops .
jyan wrote:Strangely, I've been asked many times "where are the proper shops like M&S, Primark and BHS" when I've been in The Lanes but never the other way round. When I've suggested they explore the smaller shops the comment is "Oh no, they don't interest us, we've got them where we live".
While you're at it, knock down Chuchill Square and replace that with more lanes and nice little interesting shops - that's want tourists want who bring in the money to Brighton not the shops you get everywhere else.
It's also a bit ironic that the only shop in that part of North St/The Lanes that I use is Timpsons and that could be demolished - OK, with a replacement built.
Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit
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12:56pm Thu 7 Mar 13
Surely not! wrote:I must admit I might do the same! Being an intelligent person with a rational, analytical mind I obviously don't support the 'think so far and then stop' Greens, but some of the anti-Green party rubbish on these comments pages is beyond belief.
The more I read the comments on here the more I think I might put pencil to paper and mark my cross next to the Greens. Not because I think they are support them, but if they get up the noses of you sad ignorant lot they must be doing something right.
Anyway, my default position is to believe that 'all development is good', and this sounds reasonable so I hope it goes ahead.
rolivan
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4:42pm Thu 7 Mar 13
wexler53 says...
5:50pm Wed 6 Mar 13