This is an article which I wrote some months ago in another local magazine on the history of the communal bin scheme. I thought it might prove of interest for some residents in the area …

Plans are expected to be announced to convert the disused Sussex Ice Rink near Churchill Square into a 6-storey hotel. Brighton and Hove City Council, the owner of the dilapidated site, is said to be …

Authorities across Sussex have come under fire for spending large amounts on management. A total of 170 managers, each earning more than £50,000, were employed by Brighton and Hove City Council in 2006/7, costing the …

A development company who felled five 50-year-old trees in a bid to increase the value of the land on which the trees stood has been fined £30,000. Action was taken by Brighton and Hove City …

Now this is an interesting one. Council chief executive Alan McCarthy is set to take early retirement, but that’s not quite how the story went originally. Initial reports on the Argus website stated that Mr. …

We are the unfortunate family outside whose listed home resides the communal bin to which Mrs Leeds refers.
We received a consultation questionnaire and vented our opposition vigorously, along with most of the other local NON …

When we were first consulted about the communal bins, the residents of Clifton Road sent in a petition against them. All but 2 residents were firmly against having these bins in our Road.
Clifton Road is …

 
As we approach the end of the year our editor, Tony Davenport, went to meet the Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council, Councillor Mary Mears for a chin-wag about our city, over a nice …

A disciplinary panel consisting of two independent members and one councillor found that Councillor Geoffrey Theobald, who last month parked his Jag in a disabled bay as he was late for a meeting, had breached …

A large section of Madeira Drive is set to get a heritage-style facelift and the road widened. Work has already commenced on the stretch of road, which is too weak to support heavy vehicles. The …