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Housing secretary overrules rejection of EPR’s 500-home Brighton Gasworks scheme

By 2025-09-23T11:45:00

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Council ordered to pay full costs of inquiry

The new housing secretary has overruled Brighton and Hove Council’s rejection of plans to build 495 homes on a derelict gasworks site.

St William, a subsidiary of Berkeley Homes, submitted a planning application in 2021 for the Brighton Gasworks scheme, which would see the development of 2ha of land currently used for storage and containing redundant gas infrastructure.

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