Plan for new Hove care home is refused

11:50am Saturday 16th March 2013 in News

Plans for a care home and family houses on the edge of a national park have been turned down.

Thornton Properties wanted to demolish Court Farm House in Devil’s Dyke Road, Hove, and replace it with a 58-bedroom care home and five detached properties.

It claimed it would create dozens of jobs.

But Brighton and Hove City Council’s planning committee threw out the plans on Thursday, March 14 adding it did not match with its long-term vision for the site.

The land, which is near the junction of the A27 and the South Downs National Park, is part of the Toad’s Hole Valley site.

This has been earmarked for a carbon-neutral development including 700 homes, a secondary school and business units in the City Plan, which will guide development until 2030.

Eight councillors – all Green and Labour councillors – voted to turn down the plans.

Three backed it and one abstained – all Conservative.

Labour councillor Les Hamilton said: “I can see some merit in this but feel it’s a premature application.”

He added he was worried about the lack of shops and buses, adding he felt this would be delivered if the site was developed as a whole.

Green councillor Ian Davey said: “It is a strategic site which needs to be looked at strategically.”

But Conservative councillor Denise Cobb said: “I don’t know how it can be refused when we badly need care homes in the city.”

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Comments(5)

rolivan says...
12:02pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Is this the site that is or was owned by the Council and was leased on a peppercorn rent to a member of the Samson Family?

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twigley says...
12:36pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Once again, another example where the Council's vision is not in keeping with what developers consider as financially viable. With the worrying shortage of affordable starter homes in Brighton and Hove and an ageing population with increasing care-needs, combined with several key undeveloped sites, it needs a greater degree of pragmatism in decision making from the council rather than adherence to an idealistic vision which no developer can consider as commercially viable.

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RottingdeanRant says...
12:44pm Sat 16 Mar 13

' Brighton and Hove City Council’s planning committee threw out the plans on Thursday, March 14 adding it did not match with its long-term vision for the site.” What is their ‘vision’ and how is it funded?

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50 Shades of Grey Mortuary Services Inc. says...
12:46pm Sat 16 Mar 13

How many sheep could this land sustain? Economically and ecologically sustainable and could also be an opportunity to better regulate a significant section of Brighton's diverse adult entertainment industry?

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fredflintstone1 says...
1:28pm Sat 16 Mar 13

50 Shades of Grey Mortuary Services Inc. wrote:
How many sheep could this land sustain? Economically and ecologically sustainable and could also be an opportunity to better regulate a significant section of Brighton's diverse adult entertainment industry?
Going back and forth via Stringer Way to the playgroup last week, there were dozens and dozens of sheep all crammed on to a small area of the Dorothy Stringer school playing fields no bigger than a back garden.

They had no shelter, and it was really upsetting to see them covered in frozen snow and ice. So I'd say many hundreds of sheep would be viable on this site - with absolutely no regard for their welfare, of course.

Why is it that the Greens need to abuse animals in our public spaces? First we had the fish left to die in skips at Preston Park, and now the sheep are treated in a way that no normal farmer would consider.

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