insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 03 - May 2015 | Page 11

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CYCLISTS IN BRIGHTON BENEFIT FROM
£1.5 MILLION CYCLE HUB
Cyclists in Brighton will be able take advantage
of a new £1.5 million cycle and community hub
unveiled by Transport Minister Baroness Kramer
this spring.
Baroness Kramer said: “Our ambition is
to encourage people to cycle more often. This
Government has announced £15 million of funding
to improve cycling facilities at rail stations, and
hubs like this one in Brighton will help make that
vision a reality.”
The Department for Transport provided
£650,000 funding for the hub, with additional
contributions from Brighton and Hove City Council,
Southern Railway and Network Rail.
The new Brighton cycle hub will provide an

additional 500 secure cycle parking spaces in a
new state of the art facility at the rear of the station
open to rail and non-rail users alike. 
The centre also offers a bike repair and
maintenance workshop, and a coffee shop for
visitors. New keep fit facilities, offering classes
such as yoga and bike spinning, showers,
changing rooms and accessible toilets are due to
open shortly.
The additional 500 parking spaces in the
new hub brings the total number of cycle parking
spaces at the station to around 800, helping cut
pollution, ease road congestion and meeting
higher demand for facilities allowing people to park
their bike and take the train.

NORMAN BAKER MP OPENS LEWES’S
FIRST ZERO CARBON HOME AND GUEST
ACCOMMODATION, SKYHOUSE SUSSEX

Norman Baker, MP for Lewes, officially opened
Skyhouse Sussex, Lewes’s first Zero Carbon home
and guest accommodation on Cuilfail in Lewes this
spring. He hailed Skyhouse as “a model for the
way forward; not just for