London Road Brighton Student Accommodation Plan Is Refused
A proposal to build accommodation for 407 students on London Road has been refused by Brighton and Hove City Council.
The former Co-op department store on London Road would have been demolished to make way for the accommodation and the development had been backed by the University of Sussex.
However, at a planning committee meeting on Wednesday 14th December the application was unanimously turned down by councillors, partly on the grounds that the 1930s building ‘is valued by the local community due to its architectural and historic interest’ …