Newtown area

Newtown mapArticles about the area where Hyde are building their major development.

The Goldstone Retail Park was built on the site of Brighton & Hove Albion Goldstone Football Ground. The large, noisy retail sheds and car park have left no vestige of the former use, despite its iconic, historic and cultural significance to many thousands of the city’s football fans.

The Forum has created an illustrative ‘blue skies’ vision of how this area could be more appropriately redeveloped in the long term, through a design which, inter alia, commemorates its role in the city’s history.

The issue for the Neighbourhood Plan is the need to explore the feasibility of a second redevelopment of this site in the context of an integrated, mixed-use redevelopment of the whole of DA6.

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Forum’s objection to KAP Planning application BH2018/03356

The Hove Station Neighbourhood Forum supports the principle of a mixed-use redevelopment of the KAP site, but OBJECTS to this application, on the grounds of OVER-DEVELOPMENT, which includes unacceptably high 8 and 11 storey blocks, and very limited provision of ‘affordable’ housing, However, the project includes many of the features of an appropriate mixed use development which should be included in a revised submission.

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Hyde Housing update Aug 2017

The Hyde Group of developers have published a video and website about the development in Newtown Road/Goldstone Lane – now known as New Wave Hove. Construction is expected by August 2018. › 59 Flats › 6 Houses › Outright sale: 39 › Shared ownership: 18 › 8 affordable rent units › B1 Office space › Below … Read more

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Call for major improvements to Hove Station Footbridge

Architect David Kemp is among a number of local businesses and residents calling for more substantial work on the bridge which has fallen into “an appalling condition”. Mr Kemp drew up designs for an improved footbridge and the Neighbourhood Forum has collected hundreds of signatures calling for funding for a new bridge. The footbridge is the major north-south pedestrian link, but it is poorly maintained and the absence of lifts at either end render it unusable for wheelchair uses, totally inadequate for people with disabilities and grossly inconvenient for people with luggage, heavy shopping bags or prams.

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Hyde Housing update Nov 2015

Hyde Housing update: Yesterday, three of us from the forum met with Hyde Housing (www.hyde-housing.co.uk) in Davigdor Road. They gave us an update on the planned redevelopment on the corner of Goldstone Lane and Newtown Road. Demolition and clear-up is expected to begin next Spring and last around 6-8 weeks. Construction is anticipated to begin … Read more