Local residents and businesses have been horrified at the Council and the developer’s inadequate consultation.
They have come together at meetings, advertised by local leafleting, and this website is intended as a broad overview of their feelings and cannot be fully comprehensive; naturally there will be a range of detailed opinions and we ask you to bear this in mind while reading up on the basic background.
Whether one is for or against the wheel, the overwhelming aim of the campaign at present is not to prevent the wheel but to make the Council pause in what many see as its breathtakingly arrogant and speedy moves to get this project built.
Brighton and Hove City Council must, morally and legally, run a proper consultation.
A few residents have been campaigning for months, and been largely ignored by the Council. Most only heard about the wheel – or at least its placement in Kemptown – at the last moment in the development of it, and are very much against the clock to have their say.
This consultation matters not just because the Council must be held to the laws of planning, but also particularly because whilst some of the campaigners have been trying to canvass local opinion they have found that residents, shops, hotels, and many other business types are overwhelmingly against the wheel.