Until recently, the Council’s attitude to our neighbourhood has been one of ‘benign neglect’ of an area which is ‘out of sight and out of mind’. But the community’s work to prepare a Neighbourhood Plan has undoubtedly given our neighbourhood a much higher profile in the corridors of power.
The forum’s submission on the new MODA application (21st Feb 2020)
The Hove Station Neighbourhood Forum supports this application, albeit reluctantly in the context of a likely maximum 10% affordable housing provision, subject to the satisfactory resolution of the potentially adverse impacts on the local road network of the very high density development proposed. Given the requirements of planning law and national policy guidance, this means that the Council cannot require … Read more