Building a new room, fixing a problem, or renovating your own home may sound like a romantic way to get the job done, but people find that it is much more difficult than they imagined. While getting some exercise, investing your hard work is both satisfying and productive. But it is imperative to think about...
We recently heard Theresa May’s plans to boost the UK’s housing market by encouraging more developments by loosening the council’s guidelines for planning permission. Gary Porter, the Conservative leader of South Holland council in Lincolnshire strongly defended the planning system, declaring nine in ten planning applications are approved. No doubt Theresa May’s proposals come as...
Plans have recently been put forward for an ambitious redevelopment of the derelict Preston Barracks site on Lewes Road, Brighton. The developers U+I Plc are in partnership with the University of Brighton, and the plans include 350 new homes of which 20% will be “affordable” as well as a new 50,000 sq ft state-of-the-art central...
After a lengthy period of trying to gain planning permission, works for the Brighton Marina development were put on hold following the financial downturn in 2008. Construction works recommenced in 2013 and Phase I of the project has now been completed with most of the properties sold and the commercial spaces up and running. Phase...
Recent plans put forward by developers First Base and The Hyde Group for the redevelopment of Anston House have been met with fierce resistance from local residents of Brighton and Hove for a number of reasons. In this blog post we will examine the case for and against the proposed works. Proposed Plans Anston house,...
Brighton and Hove greatly anticipate the re-development of the King Alfred Leisure Centre with the 560 luxury apartments alongside it. Earlier this year, the council teamed up with Crest Nicholson, Rob Starr, and LA architects to draw out plans for a highly modern £200 million development to bring a touch of sophistication to Brighton and...
2014 was a good year for MCG Group. The beginning of 2014 was marked with a groundworks contract at 31-33 Bath Street by the Seven Dials in Brighton, an area that serves as a prime location due to its great ease of access to Brighton train station and the Brighton and Hove bus network....
Construction for the greatly anticipated i360 viewing tower is expected to get underway in Brighton this summer after a £36.2m government loan was agreed upon. A government funding agency known as the Public Works Loans Board (PWLB) which makes loans available to major building projects will be behind the cash injection. The PWLB loan will...
Changes in urban policy towards more inclusive community driven partnerships from 1991 ‘became a metaphor for the absence or withdrawal of services by the state’ (Hoggett, 1997: 10). Pre 1991 ‘policy became refocused not on people and communities but on property and physical regeneration’ (Colenutt and Cutten, 1994: 237) and the ‘trickle-down’ process (Brownill and...
The US and countries of the European Union have followed a transition from government to governance (Denters and Rose, 2005; Geedes, 2005), a shift that is also evident within the UK (Stoker, 1998; Kooiman, 2001; Newman, 2001). Rhodes elaborates on this, stating that ‘governance signifies a change in the meaning of government, referring to a...
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