Patcham flint wall damaged

The flint wall to 18thC, grade II listed, Wootton House in Patcham Village has been badly damaged by a reversing lorry.

Wootton House lies on the corner of Ladies Mile Road and Old London Road, a bus route, the configuration of which is notoriously difficult for large vehicles to negotiate. A situation which is often made worse by cars illegally parked while the drivers just "pops into the Coop for 5 minutes".

Traffic delays at Marine Gate.

From 10 July, for about eight weeks, the council will be creating a dedicated bus layby at the west-bound Marine Gate bus stop. There will also be a new toucan crossing to help people leaving the bus to cross the road towards Kemp Town. These measures will make it easier for cars to pass stationary buses, as well as making things safer and easier for people using the bus, walking or cycling.

To enable this work lanes will be temporarily narrowed along the A259 from next week.

Since 2010 there have been eight casualties from accidents at the spot. A particular problem is stationary buses blocking pedestrians’ views of the road as they try to cross towards a central island.

This changes will also help guide cyclists from the cycle track on the southern side of the A259 towards other nearby cycle routes into east Brighton.

Petition: Affordable housing - developers should come clean

Require developers to make their viability assessments public if they claim they cannot meet council targets of affordable housing in new developments.

Current planning law states that if a developer will make less than 20% profit on a new development, they can ignore a council's regulations about building affordable and social housing.

Leaked documents from several developers have shown that the maths they use to work out their profit margins are purposefully misleading, allowing them to claim they will make less than 20% profit on a development by undervaluing the prices of the houses they will sell and over-costing the labour.

To combat this Islington, Greenwich, Lambeth and Bristol councils have introduced a policy that forces developers "viability assessments" to be made public.

By bringing these dodgy maths into the public domain, Councils, campaigning groups and individuals will be able to hold developers to account and force them to use more honest maths.

Sign petition here:- https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/make-housing-developers-be-transparent-in-insert-your-town-city-here-44

Views from Hollingbury Hill Fort

Whitehawk Hill

East Brighton

Southwick & Shoreham Harbour. The loom of the Isle of Wight can just be made out on the horizon.

The i360

St. Michael's Church with Brighton Station in middle distance

Chanctonbury Ring and Truleigh Hill

Views of the Amex Stadium

From Ditchling Beacon 

From The Drove, Falmer

From Hollingbury Hill

From Holllingbury Hill