There are plans to replace the Co-op store in Lewes Road, Brighton, with student flats PLANS for more student flats in Lewes Road, Brighton, were approved by councillors, with a curfew on using a proposed roof terrace. The four-storey block, on the corner of Caledonian Road, is expected to include 60 student bedrooms and a ground floor shop or café. The current Co-op building would be demolished and the store would move into vacant premises next door, councillors were told yesterday afternoon. Conservative councillor Joe Miller raised concerns about parties on the roof and said that time limits had been imposed on the roof of nearby student flats at the Vogue Gyratory.
BRIGHTON and Hove city council debated nuclear weapons in an explosive meeting branded “disgraceful” by the standards chief after a row about racism. City councillors debated the feasibility and benefits of nuclear disarmament in a Full Council meeting which was abandoned after the live stream went down amid technical difficulties. The meeting became embroiled in a row about racism. Conservative councillor Mary Mears questioned the council’s anti-racist stance after councillor Nancy Platts had not answered Argus questions relating to her time in Jeremy Corbyn’s office when he was Labour leader. These questions were raised in October following the publication of a damning report by the human rights watchdog which found the Labour Party responsible for “unlawful” harassment and discrimination of its Jewish members.