The council has invested more than £44m in council homes and started work on 528 affordable homes, but temporary accommodation pressures keep rising. Here's what the two-year review of the Housing Strategy shows.

Brighton and Hove City Council has set out a three-year plan to expand specialist support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, with new support bases, more help in mainstream schools and a refocused approach to alternative provision.

Brighton and Hove City Council has ruled out a costly rebuild of New England House and will instead open more than 30,000 square feet of workspace at Phoenix House and Lyndean House for creative businesses, while beginning the long-term regeneration of the site.

Brighton and Hove City Council is investing a further £1.3 million to improve bin collection reliability and reduce missed bins, while continuing to explore a possible future move from weekly to fortnightly rubbish collections. No decision has yet been made.

Brighton and Hove City Council is forecasting a potential overspend of almost £20 million this year and is asking government for up to £30 million in extra support, as rising social care costs squeeze budgets. Opposition councillors have questioned the figures.

Work is under way on 222 new council homes for rent and a community hub in Moulsecoomb, with a GP surgery, library, youth centre, café, skate park and 3G pitches. Shaped by residents, it is one of the city's biggest council housing projects in years.

Brighton and Hove City Council is expanding its selective licensing scheme to the Regency and Central Hove wards from October 2026, meaning up to 7,274 more private rented homes will need a licence. Landlords who fail to comply face fines and enforcement.

Meet Copito, a tattoo artist from the Costa Blanca spending her summer inking Brighton. Five years in, custom only, and here until the end of September.

A new Brighton social run club is swapping the desk for a gentle 5k that ends at the pub, on a mission to build community and find the city's best pint of Guinness.

Cult London burger and steak restaurant Burger and Beyond opens its first site outside the capital at 56 Ship Street in the Lanes, with a citywide scavenger hunt and 56 free meals up for grabs.

Researchers at the University of Sussex are looking for Brighton and Hove volunteers for a new study called Mind Meets Body, exploring how the body and mind connect. Participants receive a gift card for one lab session.

Brighton's biggest house music takeover is back on 5 September. Two headliners, two venues and one wristband across Horizon and Tide, with Beyond Chicago leading the line up.

Two months after opening on Marine Parade, The Birdcage has thirty-two performers on its roster, eight regular series booked through to December, and gives half the proceeds of its charity cocktails to a Brighton LGBTQIA+ mental health charity

Furry Adventures started as favours around a pram and a course at Plumpton. Now it is a registered family business walking dogs across Brighton, Hove and Worthing six days a week, turning down the two extra dogs their policy would allow.

The government has confirmed Brighton and Hove will absorb Peacehaven, Telscombe Cliffs and East Saltdean from April 2028, creating a council of 308,000 people. Lewes District Council is considering a legal challenge.

Abdulla Ahmadi, Ibrahim Alshafe and Karin Al-Danasurt have been jailed for a total of more than 60 years for the rape of a woman on Brighton beach. Sussex Police described the men as dangerous and predatory.

Sussex's first football tech arena has landed at Brighton Marina. Inside Ball Park: 11 pro-standard football activities, a free-to-enter sports bar, the VAR party room and family-friendly SEND sessions.

A hidden former clay pit near East Grinstead becomes a natural woodland amphitheatre for three intimate headline shows this August. Meet the venue, the line-up and the man behind it, 40 minutes from Brighton.

Six independent brands took over a free pop-up shop on Duke's Lane this July. Inside the Powering Local Businesses run with EDF and Enterprise Nation, the founders behind it, and what it means for Brighton.

Brighton and Hove City Council has launched a Civic Leadership Programme with Operation Black Vote, aimed at getting more Black and Asian residents into roles as councillors, magistrates, school governors and trustees. The programme launched at Afrori Books on 9 July.