Civic Life · 3 min read
Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls: The 2025–2028 Strategy
Explain prevention, survivor support, perpetrator accountability and safer-public-space commitments using trauma-aware language.
Read the storyIndependent city recordBrighton · Hove · PortsladeEdition 001 / 2026
THE ARCHIVE
The complete city collection
History, neighbourhoods, civic explainers and environmental stories — independently researched and organised for unhurried reading.
Civic Life · 3 min read
How Brighton & Hove Fits Into NHS Surrey and Sussex After April 2026
Map the responsibilities of the integrated care board, local NHS providers, council public health and adult social care.
Read the storyPeople & Culture · 3 min read
Martha Gunn and the Women Who Worked the Georgian Beach
Place Brighton’s famous dipper within the wider female workforce that managed sea bathing and visitor care.
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Patcham: A Downland Village Inside the City
Follow its ancient parish core, water landscape and twentieth-century suburban expansion.
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West Blatchington: From Downland Village to Suburb
Follow the manor, church, farms and twentieth-century housing that absorbed an older rural settlement.
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How the Old Town Became the Lanes
Separate the medieval street pattern from later branding and explain what genuinely survives of early Brighton.
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How Brighton & Hove’s Household Recycling System Works
Follow materials from household collection through sorting and treatment while clarifying contamination rules.
Read the storyTransport & Infrastructure · 3 min read
From the 2025 Park-and-Ride Trial to Strategic Mobility Hubs
Separate evidence from the temporary trial from longer-term proposals that still require decisions and funding.
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Neighbourhood Policing: How Priorities and Crime Data Should Be Read
Show how neighbourhood priorities are set and why recorded-crime figures need geographic and reporting context.
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Community Pharmacy and Primary-Care Access: What the 2025 Needs Assessment Found
Summarise citywide access, need and geographic coverage without profiling individual commercial providers.
Read the storyPeople & Culture · 3 min read
Sake Dean Mahomed’s Brighton Years
Examine migration, authorship, therapeutic practice and royal patronage without turning the piece into a commercial profile.
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Rottingdean: Smuggling Stories and Documentary Evidence
Test popular legends against archives while tracing the village’s maritime and downland setting.
Read the storyHistory & Heritage · 3 min read
Hangleton’s Lost Village and Modern Return
Explore medieval depopulation, surviving buildings and the rebirth of the name in a twentieth-century estate.
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Buying the Royal Pavilion for Brighton
Tell how civic leaders acquired the former royal palace and transformed it into a public asset.
Read the storyCoast & Environment · 3 min read
Weekly Food-Waste Collections: From 2025 Rollout to Citywide Service
Document the phased introduction, what households can put out and how separately collected food is treated.
Read the storyTransport & Infrastructure · 3 min read
Sussex Coast Mass Rapid Transit: Ambition, Evidence and Unknowns
Set out the regional concept, potential corridor and major questions that must be answered before delivery.
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Fire, Rescue and Citywide Emergency Planning: Who Does What
Map the responsibilities of the council, emergency services, health bodies and resilience partnerships before and during incidents.
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The Health and Wellbeing Strategy to 2030
Explain the strategy’s life-course priorities and how council and health organisations share responsibility for delivery.
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Thomas Read Kemp and the Reinvention of East Brighton
Assess the religious, political and speculative ambitions behind Kemp’s influence on the town and its eastern estate.
Read the storyNeighbourhoods · 3 min read
Ovingdean’s Village Landscape
Explore how church, farms, lanes and surrounding Downs preserved a strong settlement pattern.
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Hove During the First World War
Recover military, medical, domestic and commemorative experiences distinct from neighbouring Brighton.
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The Chain Pier and Brighton’s First Great Pier
Reconstruct the engineering, passenger traffic, storms and final destruction of the pioneering suspension pier.
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Circular Economy Routemap 2026–2035: Designing Waste Out of the City
Translate adopted priorities on reuse, repair, procurement, construction materials and resource efficiency.
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Chalk, Downs and Sea: The Physical Geography That Shapes the City
Explain how geology, topography and the narrow coastal plain influence water, transport, building and biodiversity.
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