The second planning application for the proposed Bilingual Primary School on the Hove Park depot site has now been submitted.

Representations and comments must be made by April 28.

The first application was made nine months ago when an exceptional number of representations and comments were made against the scheme.

The planning officer correctly decided to recommend a refusal, which resulted in withdrawal days before it was due to be considered by the planning committee.

The principal change in this new application is there being only two storeys as opposed to three.

The obvious consequence being a far larger footprint for the building, with an even smaller playground area.

Basically, therefore, nothing has changed. There will still be 630 children plus 50 staff. This is still a virtually land-locked site with extremely poor access surrounded by office blocks, the new Waitrose store, the Engineerium and, of course, Hove Park.

The access for children will still be mainly via Goldstone Crescent, with a 300-yard walk across Hove Park.

The first planning application included a 25-page “transport assessment” document, which did not solve the problem.

We now have the new Waitrose store with an inevitable increase in traffic.

These transport problems were one of the main issues of the first planning application.

The new application states “Traffic and transport related issues are considered to be limited, with the potential environmental impacts expected to be minimal. A detailed and thorough transport assessment will be prepared and measures to reduce traffic will be implemented following completion of the development.”

This is completely unacceptable and I trust your readers will, before April 28, take positive action by directly contacting Steven Lewis at Brighton and Hove City Council, Hove Town Hall, BN3 3BQ, quoting reference BH2014/00922.

Details of the application can be seen on www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/planning applications.

Colin Beard, Goldstone Crescent, Hove