We are a victim of our own success here in Brighton and Hove.
Beautiful beachfront, rumbling Downs, fantastic food and nightlife – who wouldn’t want to live here?
But being surrounded by the sea and countryside also presents a huge problem in trying to squeeze in everybody who wants to be here.
The City Plan is essentially a way of trying to solve this riddle without destroying the city that we know today, which attracts all these people.
As we live in a democracy so everyone, all groups with conflicting ideas and aims, get to have a say in the process.
But as difficult as it will be to square this circle, the truth is we are better with a City Plan than without.
It’s certain that not everybody will be happy with the final outcome, it is impossible to satisfy such diverging interested parties, but if a strong semblance of the Brighton and Hove spirit we love today remains in 2030 then the City Plan will have done its job.
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