"When it [Brighton] has been bold and imaginative it has been successful. When it has been safe and inward looking it has failed. Brighton and Hove must now move into a ninth era and become an international city or it will slip back again into the mediocrity that characterised so much of the postwar era.”
Couldn't agree more with this.
Another negative post.Just been on the seafront and the the 360 thing is a fricking eyesore! The shoreham power station was a lovely structure but this new heap of shite already disrupts the views. Shame on you brighton city
There has always been old moaners who object to everything. They are responsible for the west pier, the state of the marina, king aldfred, london road, the brighton centre. The list goes on! These people don't care about the city they just want it to stay the same and rot around us.
Spot on! It was the Greens who were responsible for a hundred years of wear and tear and not maintaining the undercliff along Madina Drive.Brighton was messed up by the Greens look at what they left, the lewes road ,viaduct road, stacked packing boxes where the Cobbler them once stood, no money spent of the under cliff which is now in such a state parts are being taken down, plus the heart of Brighton given over to Student accommodation with nothing to draw people into the city and to crown it all the 360l hope it looks better finished as it looks awful at its present stage
Have to agree. Far too many people who just want to say no to everything (some even objected to the wind farms proposed/being built off of our coast - on what possible grounds I do not know, no pollution or noise and the bonus of FREE energy, oh yeah, the view was being spolit!). Brighton was on the verge of going down like Blackpool/Margate back in the late 70's, our economy got lucky with the completion of The Marina and the Brighton Centre at roughly the same time, that combined with the house price boom since then and our proximity to London has kept us going for a long time.
But without wishing to get too party political, recent years have seen our city slipping backwards again, looking tatty and smug in equal measure. If we continue to ignore the investment required (King Alfred, Brighton Centre, Madeira Terraces, Marina) in things like the Kings Road Arches and effectively close our city down by closing main thoroughfares, discouraging motor traffic and hitting motorists with outrageous parking charges then we will see our city confined to the fate of aforementioned resorts.
Welcome to the i360, and I encourage more brave decisions to be made, and the nimbys like the Regency Society can take their place in the past rather than our city!
There has always been old moaners who object to everything. They are responsible for the west pier, the state of the marina, king aldfred, london road, the brighton centre. The list goes on! These people don't care about the city they just want it to stay the same and rot around us.
Difficult to judge the 360i until the viewing dome is added, at the moment just looks like a chimney, so is never going to appease the anti's just yet.
I have lived in Brighton or its suburbs all my life and have fallen in and out of love with it, seemed a little dirty and tired in the early 80's but seems to have got itself together in recent years, personally I think it will be great.