A developer wants to knock down the building currently home to Deliveroo’s dark kitchen, which supplies takeaways to customers across the city.
The delivery company opened its Editions Hub in Olive Road, Hove, 2017 – a space where chefs from chains without a sit-down branch in the city could provide delivery-only meals.
The following year, it was told to close down by Brighton and Hove City Council on the basis it didn’t have planning permission – but the enforcement notice was later withdrawn.
Now, the owner of the site John MacLeod has applied to demolish the building, plus its neighbour, currently home to a car garage and Dickie’s suit hire.
In its place, he wants to put up a five-storey block with basement to house 26 flats, plus commercial space and two houses.
Brighton and Hove News understands Deliveroo is aware and is monitoring the application.
The application says: “The Deliveroo unit has historically had a harmful impact on neighbouring occupiers and the proposed mix-use development would be a low car scheme comprising residential and office uses.
“This would result in reduced neighbouring amenity impacts in terms of noise and general disturbance, further justifying the proposed reduction in employment floorspace.”
It says the commercial space would be ideal for small businesses and start-ups and would lead to more people being employed on the site.
The developer hired planning consultants to build a community feedback website which was live for four weeks and was visited by 203 people, 29 of whom filled in a feedback form.
The application includes a selection of positive comments left about the scheme, while saying concerns included more traffic and parking, and the block is too big and high.
And it looks like construction will have a huge impact on phone signals around there. Even if they put the aerials back on the new block, there will be months without signal.
Be an odd place to want to live. Traffic is a constant jam in that street.
Sad Dickies is going as well!
That’s a first rate establishment!
I hope they find new premises soon?
Would have made a lot more sense for it to be closed off to olive road and made part of the Portland road trading estate, but keep it as commercial, a massive lack of commercial space in the city as it is. Not sure your going to get amazing rents on flats in the arrr end of nowhere next to a railway line with really poor transport and no reduced parking.
Desparation. 28 living units plus commercial need 100 + parking and vehicle delivery area. Currently works only because Deliveroo uses bikes. Olive Road daily jammed by normal traffic plus increasing number of drivers avoiding endless waits at Portslade level crossing.
I think it will be really sad to see Dickie’sgo – it’s become such a familiar site, a landmark, really, & it’s an excellent business! And. who on earth would want to lived here – as someone said it’s constantly full of traffic, over a railway line, near nothing else. Not a good place to live for sure.
let’s keep Dickie’s & all it’s aerials 🙂
What a dump
What a dump
There is already enough disruption around this area closing this major road will be a nightmare for drivers I live in Portland road and it’s already congested with the endless road works olive road is a major road used by many cars you cannot close it it does not make sense to keep a developer happy he couldn’t care less about how disruptive this will be ! go and develope elsewhere !!!!!! the flats will be an eyesore no this cannot go ahead