Royal Alex hospital

Plans to demolish a landmark building and replace it with flats and a GP surgery look likely to be turned down.

Officers at Brighton and Hove City Council have recommended that the planning application for the former Royal Alexandra children's hospital in Dyke Road, Brighton, be refused.

Developers Taylor Wimpey want to pull down the Victorian structure and replace it with more than 150 flats - 40 per cent of which would be "affordable homes" - a GP surgery with a pharmacy and a community green for public use.

English Heritage, which gives historic buildings listed status, and the Victorian Society, which campaigns for the preservation of Victorian and Edwardian structures, have strongly objected to the design.

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