[Sussex] Bobby Zamora and Mark Noble's flats refused planning permission in Portslade.

Thunder Bolt

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Sorry about the Argus link.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19283332.bobby-zamora-mark-nobles-portslade-flat-plan-rejected/

The flats themselves don't look too bad, but there isn't any parking and the flats are too high.

 

Jim Van Winkle

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Mark Noble couldn’t find Portslade on a map.

 

Cheshire Cat

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The flats look terribly dull. No imagination at all. Square box on a square box on a square box.

 

beorhthelm

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obviously there's no need for more housing in Brighton and Hove, or redevelopment of semi-derelict sites, and any select developments should support car ownership.

 

Weststander

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Includes the Flexer Sacks site, which has changed hands several times over the last 20 years.

The developer needs to reduce the height by a few stories, to make it acceptable to planners.

 

Cheshire Cat

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Sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off...

• May 8, 2021

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beorhthelm said:

obviously there's no need for more housing in Brighton and Hove, or redevelopment of semi-derelict sites, and any select developments should support car ownership.

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The issue is what you put there, not whether there should be anything there at all.
Most modern flats have no architectural merit whatsoever, when a little more imagination could work wonders.

 

Thunder Bolt

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Weststander said:

Includes the Flexer Sacks site, which has changed hands several times over the last 20 years.

The developer needs to reduce the height by a few stories, to make it acceptable to planners.

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That won’t solve the parking problem.

 

beorhthelm

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Cheshire Cat said:

The issue is what you put there, not whether there should be anything there at all.
Most modern flats have no architectural merit whatsoever, when a little more imagination could work wonders.

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right, architectural merit is so much more important. cant have just rows and rows of identical homes like they built in the old days.

 

Cowfold Seagull

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Thunder Bolt said:

That won’t solve the parking problem.

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Brighton & Hove is a city beset with parking problems alas.