King Alfred: it's a yes

[Gwylan]

Cool, I think the ice stadium complex got the green light several years ago, I must pop down to black rock and see how the builders are getting on!
City for the 21st century

..yeah I'm not holding my breath on this: there are too many NIMBYs and BANANAs about.

I reckon that the King Alfred will be developed about the same time as Falmer - perhaps in time for my retirement party.

 

[Frutos]

..yeah I'm not holding my breath on this: there are too many NIMBYs and BANANAs about.

I know what NIMBY stands for, but does BANANA stand for something that I'm not aware of

Anyone care to enlighten me, if this is the case?

 

[Gwylan]

BANANA - Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone

 

[Frutos]

BANANA - Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone

Ahhh...moltes gracies

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

From the Argus website tonight

Green light for King Alfred
Controversial plans for a £300 million sports and housing complex on Hove seafront have been given the go-ahead.

...

Conservative councillors, angry with the decision, could ask the Government to call in the decision, putting the whole scheme under threat once again.

Here we go again...

 

[aftershavedave]

does anybody ahve a pic of the approved plan? i know it changed a few times and would like to see what was finally agreed.

 

[Nobby's Betamax Video]

Cool, I think the ice stadium complex got the green light several years ago, I must pop down to black rock and see how the builders are getting on!
City for the 21st century

Terrific news!!

The Black Rock Ice Arena detailed plans are to be submitted in the next month or so, I believe. So no builders there yet.

Gonna get crowded with all those developments down at the Marina

King Alfred - few thoughts:-

- On the whole, fantastic news.
- Will the reduction in housing on the site affect Karis' business case? If so, how will they off-set that? Hopefully not by cutting costs on the leisure facilities?
- Think the alternative site for the housing should be Falmer village
- Hope they don't forget that housing is an "enabling" part of their design to support the leisure facilities. After all of this, the swimming pools etc better be bloody good.

 

[Northstander]

When I started drinking, I used to turn up at a disco they held there every saturday...

God, the days gone by

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Has anyone seen this?

 

[Dave the OAP]

Never in a million years!!!


See the tories have said they will try for a Judicial Review of this...sound familiar?

 

[ripper]

I for one am in favour of this, its only just down the road from me but I think it will be great for the city.

Can see this one going on and on though Falmer style

 

[tedebear]

Never in a million years!!!


See the tories have said they will try for a Judicial Review of this...sound familiar?

When Perseus raises the issue of Pende again it will be!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Has anyone seen this?

A fantastic development, that Brighton could be very proud of.

http://www.brightonmarinafuture.co.uk/

Some much needed affordable properties.


I will wait to pass judgement on the tin can towers, when they have been built and when I have seen the impact on the area. Too late if negative, not that I could do anything about it!

 

[El Dude Brother]

Has anyone seen this?

I noticed it a couple of hours ago. I haven't heard anything about this at all. I can't quite make out where exactly the site is. Is it supposed to be part of the redevelopment of the Brighton Centre/Kingswest? Unusually I couldn't find anything about it on skyscrapercity.com which is usually pretty on the ball.

I also noticed that planning officers have recommended the i-360 for approval. It's rare for councillors to ignore the recommendations of planning officers so I expect this will be given full planning consent soon.

 

[NMH]

quoteriginally posted by NMH
If The United Kingdom were a ship, we'd be the bow.

I hope you didnt plagerise that from somewhere else, because that my friend is a quality quote.

My only fear is that without the correct ratification of projects like this and the one at the Marina developers and architects with famous connections and worldwide status would over look our city.

Thanks, for the first bit.

About the second bit though, my fear is that we will eventually become the Monaco of the UK, and priced out of our own city by rising prices. We already have too many people flocking to Brighton for the amount of jobs available, and rents are way higher than wages so that disposable income is not easy to have around. Nowadays the employers are often paying more up north, while house prices are lower.

 

[Chicken Run]

quoteriginally posted by NMH
If The United Kingdom were a ship, we'd be the bow.



Thanks, for the first bit.

About the second bit though, my fear is that we will eventually become the Monaco of the UK, and priced out of our own city by rising prices. We already have too many people flocking to Brighton for the amount of jobs available, and rents are way higher than wages so that disposable income is not easy to have around. Nowadays the employers are often paying more up north, while house prices are lower.

My friend that time is here now, that quote could have been made in th 90's

 

[Robot Chicken]

Just found these fascinating pictures of the King Alfred site as it was in 1936

 

[Safeway]

That isn't the King Alfred site. The King Alfred site is out of shot to the east. You can just about see the edge of the car park on those pictures.