Developers behind a scheme to regenerate part of the Brighton Lanes have reapplied for permission to demolish Timpsons.
But West Register says the trade off for knocking down the recently-listed North Street store is restoring the 17th century Puget’s Cottage, which was rediscovered during preliminary work.
The new application, registered with Brighton and Hove City Council this month, proposes creating a new twitten, Puget’s Lane, linking North Street with another new twitten, Hannington’s Lane, which has already been given planning permission.
It also proposes building a new building next door to Timpsons, with a first floor flat projecting over the twitten, as well as two new retail units along the twitten itself, with flats above.
It says: “This application proposes the demolition of the Grade II listed 15 North Street and a store to the west of Puget’s Cottage to allow for the construction of a new pedestrianised Lane linking North Street to the consented Hannington’s Lane.
The concept for Puget’s Lane … has been to open up key vistas through this historic part of the Old Town Conservation Area, Valley Gardens Conservation Area Chapel Royal and to use new buildings to screen views of inappropriate buildings that have resulted from previous poorly considered development, whilst revealing and restoring the exterior of the Grade II Listed Puget’s Cottage.”
The cottage was built on an old Anglo-Saxon
Not something found on many coffee tables, Concrete Quarterly from the summer of 1967 (it wasn’t all Sgt Pepper and “A Whiter Shade of Pale”) has a piece about Brighton Square as it appeared at the time of its creation. It has become a lost Square, alongside which exists a useful short cut for those in the know.
The whole run of Concrete Quarterly is online.
I’m glad you’re still taken by such solid publication.
Yes, it could become a cult item.