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# New affordable homes for central Brighton
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/new-affordable-homes-for-central-brighton/
- Published: 2018-08-16T18:00:11.000Z
- Updated: 2018-08-16T18:00:11.000Z
- Description: Brighton & Hove’s planning committee approve a development of thirty-four new homes to be built in Buckingham Road, Brighton. There will be 44% affordable housing provision on the site, more than the local planning requirement, which means that 14 homes will be available for low-cost rent or shared
- Author: Besi

## Brighton & Hove’s planning committee approve a development of thirty-four new homes to be constructed in Buckingham Road, Brighton.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/web-600-43.jpg)

****THERE will be 44% affordable housing provision on the site, more than the local planning requirement, which means that 14 homes will be available for low-cost rent or shared ownership with two of the properties being suitable for wheelchair users.**

Twenty homes, all with balconies, will be built in a five-storey building at 80 Buckingham Road. The 1970s building, used by the council until 2015, will be partially demolished. Conversion of former Victorian townhouses at 76-79 Buckingham Road will provide fourteen affordable units.

![Cllr Julie Cattell](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/web-200-6.jpg)

Cllr Julie Cattell

**Councillor Julie Cattell, chair of the city’s planning committee, said:** *“This is a good use of a site to provide new quality homes for people in the city. The redesign of 80 Buckingham Road will create a modern, well-designed building that fits well with the traditional Victorian townhouses and surrounding area.”*

There will be five one bedroom, fourteen two bedroom and one three bedroom flats with a shared courtyard at 80 Buckingham Road and twelve affordable two bedroom and two affordable one bedroom homes at 76-79 Buckingham Road, with access to private rear gardens for the ground-floor flats.

The development also includes 64 square metres of community space with a *shop window* frontage onto the junction of Buckingham Street and Upper Gloucester Road.

Developers will contribute more than £97,000 for open space in the area, nearly £30,000 for secondary education and £16,500 for sustainable transport as part of the planning conditions.