Activists opposed to a “liveable neighbourhood” project have launched their own radio station.
Radio Free Hanover in Brighton aims to provide residents in Hanover with their own platform to voice opinions against plans to introduce a low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) in the area.
The project, a first for the city, aims to reduce motor traffic cutting through residential streets, also known as rat-running.
However, some people who live in Hanover and Tarner have criticised the project and claimed it will lead to residents having to make longer journeys and inadvertently lead to more emissions.
In between discussions that spell out residents’ concerns with the scheme, the radio station has been playing a range of topical tunes, such as Chris Rea’s The Road To Hell, Van Morrison’s Cul-De-Sac and Talking Heads song Road To Nowhere.
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A spokesman for the Stop The Hanover and Tarner LTN campaign group said they were prompted to create the station after being “frustrated at the lack of meaningful engagement” by members of the city council’s environment, transport and sustainability committee.
It comes as council leader Phelim Mac Cafferty claims the project may have been scuppered after Labour and Conservative councillors voted to divert money away from it to restore the city’s public toilets.
In an exclusive interview with The Argus, Cllr Mac Cafferty said: “Although Labour tried to claim through the budget process that they were only taking £1.1 million from the project, it may render whole chunks of the liveable neighbourhood gone. It may have actually killed it.
“What we will be doing through the decision-making process over the next few weeks is trying to see what we can do about that.”
However, the anti-LTN campaign group said that talk of the death of the project is premature.
He said: “The LTN is not quite dead - we are nearly there but need to fight even harder for the last bit.”
The group has urged people to ask candidates for the local elections what their position is on the project and bear that in mind on election day.
Radio Free Hanover is available on the campaign group’s website, stophanoverltn.org.uk.
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