Green light for £300m Brighton regeneration scheme

The £300m regeneration of Preston Barracks and the University of Brighton’s Moulsecoomb campus has been granted approval.The scheme is expected to create more than 1,500 jobs, hundreds of new homes and attract more than £500m into the city over the next ten years.Brighton & Hove City Council received in excess of 400 hundred letters of support from members of the local community and business leaders in the city for the application.Designed by architects’ practice, HASSELL, Studio Egret West, TP Bennett and Stride Treglown, the proposals which straddle the Lewes Road include 369 new homes, incorporating affordable housing, and 1,338 purpose built student bedrooms in managed halls of residence, to address the large shortfall of managed student accommodation in the city. They also include a new home for the University’s Business School.U+I will also develop a 50,000 sq ft hub for start-up businesses and entrepreneurs. U+I has created an accelerator company to unlock difficult sites and provide workshop space, mentors and business support. The ‘Central Research Laboratory’, a project supported with grant funding from Coast to Capital, the Local Enterprise Partnership, which will create hundreds of new jobs.