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Circus Street Municipal Market site

The Cathedral Group has been selected by Brighton & Hove City Council and the University of Brighton to transform Brighton’s former municipal market in Circus Street, creating homes, offices and around 620 jobs.

The site encompasses the former wholesale fruit and vegetable market, the NCP car park to Kingswood Street and the University’s Circus Street annexe.

Cathedral’s proposal, dubbed ‘Grow Brighton,’ recommends a zero-carbon, mixed-use scheme integrating residential and retail with a new university library, a new events square, studios for South East Dance and a creative industries market. It will include 180 flats with at least forty per cent of homes being affordable properties aimed at local people on the waiting list or key workers. Cathedral is working with housing association partners Affinity, architects John McAslan and Partners and environmental consultant engineers ARUP.

The plan was formulated after a council and university study into the local capacity, plus extensive public consultation involving residents of the nearby Kingswood and Milner flats and Tarner Area Partnership. Further consultation will take place as the design evolves to a final scheme that is submitted for planning permission. Cathedral will use the existing building as a hub for the construction phase, as well as potentially putting the building to temporary community and cultural uses.

Visit the Local Development Framework page for full details of the Supplementary Planning Document and its Sustainability Appraisal.

If you have any queries please contact:

The Capital Projects Team
Major Projects & Regeneration

Tel: (01273) 293451
E-mail: mpt@brighton-hove.gov.uk

 

Grow Brighton: Cathedral's Executive Summary

Cathedral Group and Affinity Housing Group have unrivalled experience in Public Private Partnership projects. We have assembled a world-class team to deliver this project, to GROW Brighton. We have produced a beautiful mixed-use proposal of the highest design quality. Mixed in use and tenure, the proposals integrate residential and retail with a stunning new library and capacity for 1400 jobs. A new events square and creative industries market form a key new public attraction. The economic benefit of the proposals is enormous: half a billion pounds over 10 years (GVA). The proposals stitch together neighbourhood with city with university in both physical and economic terms. A complete chain of economic growth is created, from market stall to leasing space in an enterprise hub, or a new studio, to purchasing strata studios. We offer the owners and occupiers of Grand Parade property the opportunity to create a new retail fringe. A beautiful new double-height dance studio and other space is created overlooking the events square. The proposals grow Brighton in an ecologically progressive way. The scheme is not only green, but is Zero Carbon. The community will own its own wind turbine. A new Community Trust will be established. 'Circus Street' will be a beacon for change. It will lead by example, becoming a model for Zero Carbon Living demonstrating that responsible, environmental sustainability can be delivered in an exciting, viable manner.