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There were protests outside the surgery before it was eventually closed and demolished THE site of a demolished doctors’ surgery could become council housing instead of student flats. The prospect was raised by councillors at a planning committee meeting yesterday last week as they discussed the old Willow Surgery site, in Bevendean. The owner of the plot, in Heath Hill Avenue, on the corner of Auckland Drive, has planning permission for student flats with 24 bedrooms. A condition of the planning permission, granted on appeal in May 2015, required a temporary surgery to be built –...

Bobby Zamora and Mark Noble's plan for flats in Portslade has been rejected PLANS to build an 11-storey block of flats on a corner plot in Portslade were described as “ridiculous” as councillors refused to approve the scheme. They turned down planning permission because of concerns about the height and design of three proposed blocks of flats and a lack of parking. The scheme was put forward by a property company, Luna Group, which is part-owned by former Brighton and Hove Albion striker Bobby Zamora and West Ham United skipper Mark Noble. Zamora, 40, and Noble, 33, are also direc...

Cllr Sue Shanks, inset, said the council fell below expected standards after it was found to be at fault by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman A DEVELOPER who hopes to build student flats on the site of a former doctor’s surgery has re-applied to the council to relax a key planning condition. Heath Hill Student Developments was unsuccessful in February when it asked Brighton and Hove City Council to drop the requirement for a replacement surgery on the site. Now the company wants to remove the requirement to provide a temporary surgery during construction. The requiremen...

Despite the reservations and the challenges, Councillor Mac Cafferty is keen to see a “return to normality”. He said: “When they are safe to do so, I want meetings in person once again, mainly because it will represent some welcome return to normality. “For me, the atmosphere is flat through screens – and atmosphere is key to democracy and good decision-making. “Being called into back-to-back online meetings from 8am to 7pm day after day is probably the fantasy of a programmer but it won’t make for good decision-making.” The former Labour leader of the council Daniel...

Vijeyaratnam Thivakaran, who runs the post office in Whitehawk Road, Brighton, plans to link two neighbouring buildings. One is the post office itself and the other is the grocers next door, on the corner of Bristol Gardens. His plans include demolishing the first floor of the corner store and turning it into a four-storey building. The end result is intended to be four modern flats instead of two outdated ones, while keeping the ground floor for commercial use. The plans were approved by Brighton and Hove City Council’s planning committee. Labour councillor Daniel Yates said: �...