Brighton and Hove Albion park and ride to be permanent fixture

Brighton and Hove Albion has been given permission to turn a temporary park and ride into a permanent scheme.

Up to 700 cars can park on land outside Brighton Racecourse in Freshfield Road, Brighton, on match days and when events take place at the football club’s Falmer stadium.

The park and ride can be used up to 50 times a year.

The scheme has been running for two years and involves fans taking match-day buses from the racecourse to the American Express Community Stadium via Woodingdean. After matches, buses return along Lewes Road.

When the new bus and cycle lanes have been completed in Lewes Road, buses will travel to and from games along that route.

Brighton and Hove City Council Planning Committee gave its unanimous approval to plans to make the temporary park and ride permanent.

After their decision at Hove Town Hall yesterday (Wednesday 17 July) Albion director Martin Perry said: “The whole sustainable transport strategy at the stadium has been a massive success.

“The park and ride element of that has been an important plank of the whole strategy.

“To have that confirmed by the council, and to have the planning committee’s unanimous support, underlines the success of what we’ve been doing.”

The club also operates park and rides from Mill Road in Westdene and Mithras House off Lewes Road, Brighton.

Planning committee chairman Councillor Phélim Mac Cafferty said: “This is a tried and tested solution that will really help fans and residents alike.

“Working closely with the Albion and the racecourse we believe we have a result that will help with the Albion’s successes well into the future.”