Featured image: Moulsecoomb Community Leisure Centre, the consultation venue, photographed on 3 May 2018. Not the Broadfields housing site or a view of the proposed homes. Paul Gillett / Geograph / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Display may be resized/cropped; those image adaptations are shared under the same licence.
Last updated: 18 October 2026, 01:25 BST.
The Broadfields housing consultation gives Moulsecoomb residents an early opportunity to question proposals for 30 to 35 council homes at 1 to 12 Broadfields Road. A drop-in takes place at Moulsecoomb Community Leisure Centre on Thursday 22 October 2026, from 3pm to 7pm. This is consultation on an emerging scheme, not notice that planning permission has been granted.
What the Broadfields housing consultation covers
The council’s official project page identifies a site on the southern side of Moulsecoomb Way. It describes existing council-owned buildings previously used for sheltered housing and subsequently identified for temporary accommodation as an interim use. The council says former sheltered residents were rehoused and alternative locations will be provided through its temporary accommodation team.
Future homes would be advertised and let through Homemove to households on the housing register. The council distinguishes this proposal from sheltered housing, emergency accommodation and homeless move-on accommodation. Those distinctions matter: “council housing” does not describe one interchangeable service.
School access, parking and the questions still open
The consultation says servicing and refuse collection would use Moulsecoomb Way. A transport consultant has been appointed to assess traffic pressure and prepare a parking management plan. The council says Moulsecoomb Primary School will be consulted about access and drop-off arrangements.
Parking provision is still being discussed with highways officers, balancing likely car ownership with retaining green space. There is no confirmed parking-space total in the material we inspected. Nor does appointing a consultant establish that traffic effects have already been resolved.
The council’s environmental intentions include lower-carbon construction, energy efficiency and habitat improvements informed by ecological surveys. These remain design commitments to examine as the plans develop, not independently demonstrated outcomes.
Why it matters locally
The council puts the city’s housing register at more than 5,000 households. An additional 30–35 homes would be a modest contribution to that need, but their size and accessibility could matter to the households eventually offered them. Neighbours need a clear account of the trade-offs: access during school journeys, usable outdoor space and construction traffic cannot be settled by the headline housing number alone.
Readers comparing council schemes should also distinguish permanent rented homes here from the separate Old Slipper Baths temporary-housing project.
What you should do
Read the proposals and questions on Your Voice before attending. Bring specific questions about the access point, parking assumptions, wheelchair-adapted layouts and how construction would be managed. The venue operator’s page confirms the centre’s address and contact number, 01273 622266.
If you cannot attend, use the official survey phase once it opens. At our check on 18 October, that page displayed a 19 November closing date. The Shingle’s 17 October report gave 18 November; we have used the live council timetable. Check it again before leaving a response to the final day. The project team’s published contact is estate.regeneration@brighton-hove.gov.uk.
Brighton Locals’ view
Early consultation is useful because the practical choices remain open. The housing objective is worthwhile, but a persuasive next version needs quantified parking and access evidence, not simply assurances that impacts will be considered. Publishing consistent consultation dates would also make participation easier.
What happens next
Feedback should inform the design before the anticipated spring 2027 planning application. Any application would create a separate statutory opportunity to comment. Neither consultation nor an indicative start date guarantees permission, funding, a contractor or a completion date.
Bottom line: ask the detailed neighbourhood questions now, while the scheme is still being shaped.
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