Brighton & Hove will be seeing more safer, better streets being delivered over the next year.
We’ve published a list of the top 10 city streets that we’re prioritising for safety improvements.
Based on requests we receive from residents and assessing parts of the city on information such as casualty data, traffic information and areas that need walking and cycling improvements, we’ve put together a priority list for 2025/26.
The improvements will be subject to available funding, which includes £550,000 from the city’s Local Transport Plan budget.
Read more about our Safer, Better Streets programme and how to request improvements.
Every year we get dozens of requests for road safety improvements across the city.
They include concerns around things like speeding, cycle safety, rat running and perceived collision blackspots.
If a site meets the initial criteria, it moves onto a more in-depth assessment using 16 different safety and social categories including casualty data, access to key services, walking and cycling, traffic counts, accessibility and the perception of danger.
Scoring each site on the criteria, we then produce a list of the top 10 locations where improvements are most urgently needed.
Councillor Trevor Muten, Cabinet member for Transport, Parking and Public Realm, said: “We’re working very hard to make our roads safer and better for everyone in the city. This list means we can prioritise those areas most in need of improvement.
“The council receives a lot of requests from residents every year, but the scoring system we started using in 2023 means we can better assess them objectively and fairly based on traffic data and other social factors.
“We’ve done some great work in the last year on junctions like Shirley Drive and Blackman Street to make them safer and to improve the junctions for pedestrians, cyclists and motor vehicles and I look forward to seeing more improvements to come.”
In 2024, we delivered several improvements across the city through our Safer, Better Streets programme including:
Picture: Junction of Shirley Drive and The Droveway
Picture: Junction of Bristol Gardens, Whitehawk Road, Roedean Road and Arundel Road in Whitehawk
Safer, Better Streets schemes being developed for construction following consultation with residents.
Safer, Better Streets is just part of what we’re doing across the city to improve travel and transport for our residents, businesses and visitors.
