Marina development gets the go-ahead

[dougdeep]

Another place where you will be able to see that Falmer eyesore from.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

That will certainly be called in for enquiry. After all, there are rows and rows of fine regency buildings overlooking the Marina.

If it does get approval, I hope the public can go up the tower though!

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

I like that. I like that a lot.

 

[perth seagull]

It's going to take some battering from the wind.

 

[Robot Chicken]

There is no asthetic beauty at the marina at all. It's all been chucked together, all a mishmash of architectural types.

Compare Brighton marina to, say, Benalmadena marina in Spain (on the Costa Del Sol near Malaga) and absolutely beautiful to look at. If only Brighton had taken note. Just found out it's been twice voted the worlds best marina too.

Our marina at Brighton is ugly in comparison. What a missed opportunity.

 

[Gwylan]

I'm with Brovian on this: if it pisses off Selma Montford and her BANANA cronies then I'm all for it.

 

[Richard Whiteley]

That's very slinky. Like it a lot.

 

[johnnyjetlag]

Seems this has been turned down. Here's The Argus:

"Campaigners celebrated on Saturday after councillors threw out the planning application for 420ft skyscraper.

The tower, dubbed the Roaring Forties, was to be the centrepiece of a £265 million development dominating Brighton Marina and would have been the tallest building in Sussex.

But Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee agreed on Friday the development, which would have included ten smaller buildings, would be too big, generate too much traffic and turn the marina into "Croydon-by-Sea".

The decision will come as a shock to the applicants, Brunswick Developments, because the plan was recommended for approval by the council's planning officials. "

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Traffic issue is probably fair enough

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Why cant we build the stadium there?

I think the whole thing should be called in again. After all the Marina was not on the list of alternative sites.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I don't like the look of this at all........this was a small fishing villlage when I was growing up in the 1980's

 

[London Calling]

.........................I remember the days when the fair bigotted folks of Rottingdean opposed the building of the Marina and ensured many years later, that when it was finally built, it was to a smaller scale that did not obstruct their views.

That had the result of making the Marina commercially unviable for long time.

 

[Ex Shelton Seagull]

You better believe it pisses the Regency Society off. A public convience being constructed near the Level would outrage them. This is the same group who complain about Christmas lights and lamp-posts.

 

[chip]

Good, it looked awful and has no real architectural merit apart from sqeazing in as many mini-homes as possible.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I wonder if Meridian and South Today will give this the 200 hours coverage that they gave to the Spinnaker Tower...hmmm...