The council is holding a consultation with local organisations over its plans to reduce the number of accidents at the Seven Dials roundabout. Carol Dyhouse, who is committee member, is representing the MCHA’s interests. One of our key concerns is … Continue reading
Tony Davenport
THE MCHA has expanded its area to include the medieval church of St Nicholas and its churchyard after members at the Annual General Meeting voted unanimously to adopt a new constitution. The MCHA’s 41st Annual General Meeting was held on … Continue reading
The council narrowly approved plans to build a high-rise hotel on the old ice rink site in Queen Square after a confusing planning committee meeting, in which councillors first voted to reject the plan and then reversed their decision. The … Continue reading
Plans to build a controversial high-rise hotel on the old ice-rink site in Queen Square have been recommended for approval by the council’s planners. (Ed: This is an archived story: see later stories above.) The MCHA has consistently opposed this … Continue reading
The Annual General Meeting of the Montpelier and Clifton Hill Association will be held at 7pm on Thursday 21st June in the church of St Michael and All Angels, St Michael’s Place, Brighton. It will be followed by a talk … Continue reading
The conversion of the main Lainson building continues apace and the scaffolding that has surrounded the building for nearly three years is now starting to come down. The Lainson building, which dates from 1880, is the focal point of the … Continue reading
Three estate agents have been fined £1,000 each for putting up boards in defiance of the council’s ban on estate agents’ boards. The council banned all new “for sale”, “sold” and “to let” boards on residential properties on 20th September … Continue reading
Plastic street signs cost about £360. But they only last 30 years or so, and maybe a lot less…judging by the condition of some recently vandalised signs. Yet for only a couple of hundred pounds more we could have replicas … Continue reading
The culture secretary has turned down the MCHA’s attempt to list the French protestant church listed. The church is in the city’s Regency Square conservation area, tucked away behind the seafront in a mews that partly serves the adjacent Metropole … Continue reading
Killby and Gayford the construction company hired to convert the northern block of Mitre House into a hotel have gone bust. Construction work on Mitre House stopped in April, barely a month after it started. Killby and Gayford was one of … Continue reading