On a rainy Friday July 11, local organisations from across the Brighton and Hove area came together to urge the City Council to reconsider it’s proposals for development in the urban fringe.
Councillors were due to discuss the proposals and agree to launch a public consultation on the amendments to the City Plan which lays out the amount of housing required up to 2030. But the talks have been pushed back until the autumn to allow more time for discussions.
Chris Todd, of Brighton and Hove Friends of the Earth said: “I think it’s a great result and will give everybody time for further reflection and to look again at what is being proposed. We have got to find more housing and we are not opposed to housing outright but it can’t be housing at any cost. We need to get this right and we need to have the community with this, we can’t railroad this through.”
Campaign groups represented at the demo included Friends of the Earth, CPRE, Friends of Hollingbury and Burstead Woods, Save Our Deans and Ovingdean Residents Association
Brighton & Hove Friends of the Earth 
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