Matt Taylor for Moulsecoomb and Bevendean Councillor 2019

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Creating Jobs and Invigorating the Local Economy

Did you know that between 1895 to 1900 Brighton made 184 more films than Hollywood?

When Brighton was leading the world in film production, Hollywood was nothing more than a suburb of Los Angeles, boasting a population of 500, a post office, a newspaper, a hotel, and two markets.

Its time to bring Hollywood back to Brighton; its time for a Film/TV Studio nestled in the countryside of Moulsecoomb and Bevendean.

This is why I’m seeking election, (as an independent candidate in the Moulsecoomb and Bevendean local 2019 elections), to:

• Bring Hollywood to Moulsecoomb & Bevendean
• Reinvigorate the local economy
• Create hundreds of jobs for the community.

Moulsecoomb and Bevendean is on the up and up.

Do you remember when the Queen came to Moulsecoomb?

My Vision for Moulsecoomb & Bevendean

The McLaren Development

McLaren Property are currently seeking planning for a mixed use scheme including affordable housing, employment space, community facilities, student residential and ancillary space.

McLaren Property, which has built three dedicated student blocks in Lewes Road, on and by the Vogue Gyratory, is proposing a “student housing led mixed-use scheme” at 1 Moulsecoomb Way.

The developer said: “Plans are still evolving but they currently include the provision of 400 student bedrooms in purpose-built accommodation, over 1,000 square metres of employment space as part of supporting the local economy, and 242 square metres of community space to allow public use of the development.”

McLaren are right when they say, “The site, currently occupied by a waste management facility, would provide regeneration of the local area and deliver benefits for the community, while providing much required student residential.”

For more information about the McLaren Redevelopment – https://www.mclarengroup.com/projects/moulsecoomb-way-brighton/

Following on from the McLaren development, (which could achieve so much more, with more open minded thinking and a commitment to embrace new Earthship inspired building methods, techniques and materials,) the whole Moulsecoomb area can benefit from a major redevelopment and a multi-million pound investment bonanza.

A New Moulsecoomb Train Station

Moulsecoomb Train Station # 2

Practical transportation infrastructure is vital for any major redevelopment of any area; and Moulsecoomb will be no different.

While the 49 bus does an admiral job of getting it’s residents into the city centre and back again; the major redevelopment of Moulsecoomb will see a massive increase in foot-fall, making a new Moulsecoomb train station an absolute necessity.

Health Spa, Public Baths/Swimming and Leisure Centre

With leisure time a premium in all our lives; a place for the community to come and relax, rejuvenate and unwind is essential (and much desired.)

A healthy, stressed free and happy community, encourages good citizenship and goodwill between all humanity.

With a major health spa, public baths/swimming pools and leisure centre on the doorstep to the local community and with easy access to the A27, a major access and exit point for traffic coming in from the East, West and North of the country; a major health spa development would bring untold benefits to the local community, drawing in visitors from the city and beyond.

• With 49% of the Moulsecoomb and Bevendean community officially recognized as a living in a HEALTH DEPRIVATION HOTSPOT (compared to 20% for England); a new leisure development is what Moulsecoomb and Bevendean needs and deserves.
• 13% of the community receive work-less benefits from the DWP, compared to 11% in England.

A major health spa development, will bring jobs to one of the countries most deprived but yet, talent filled, areas in the country.

A New Shopping Mall, Market and Commercial Units

Every public area strives on a shopping and commercial area. Providing the space for a market, individual commercial units and bigger corporate outlets, a vibrant shopping/market area, mixed with a number of bars, restaurants and food stalls, will generate a vibrant day-time and night-time economy, creating jobs and injecting much needed revenue to one of the most deprived, but yet talent filled, areas in the country.

• There are 18,500 people living in Moulsecoomb and Bevendean. Of these 60% live in areas ranked in the most deprived 20% of England.
• Only 23% of people aged 16-74 are in full-time employment, compared to 39% across England.

Student and Family Housing

With student accommodation being built across the Moulsecoomb and Bevendean area, demand is high for family accommodation too.

Any new Moulsecoomb development must address this local community need and act in the public interest to build as many affordable houses as possible.

Freeing up family sized properties for the families that need them, the ‘New Camelot’ Moulsecoomb development will build Single Occupancy Dwellings (SOD’s); creating an innovative and groundbreaking style of one person dwellings, providing the space, utilities and resources to leave a near zero carbon impact on the environment and landscape.

EARTHSHIP DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Earthships are defined by six basic design principles, all of which take advantage of the existing natural phenomena of the earth.

1. BUILDING WITH NATURAL AND REPURPOSED MATERIALS

Earthships incorporate many natural and reclaimed materials in their construction. Tires are the perfect form for a rammed-earth brick. There’s no shortage of used tires—at least 2.5 billion are currently stockpiled in the United States, with 2.5 million more discarded every year. Tires can be seen as a globally available “natural resource.” Other materials such as cans and bottles are optional, although bottle brick walls are a familiar stand-out feature of many Earthships. All interior walls are packed out between the tires and plastered with adobe mud. Mud can also be used for floors, and reclaimed wood and metal are often used.

1. THERMAL/SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING

At their most fundamental, Earthships are structures that heat and cool themselves without electric heat, burning fossil fuels or wood. Thirty percent of all energy that is produced in the world is used for heating and cooling buildings. By using thermal mass and solar gain, Earthships are capable of maintaining a comfortable temperature without additional fuels in any climate in the world. The structural walls of the building are formed with used automobile tires packed tightly with earth. These thermal mass “bricks,” which weigh about 300 pounds each, are pounded into place and staggered like bricks to form the load-bearing walls for the roof. The tires are also wide enough to eliminate the need for a concrete foundation. The densely packed walls, considered to be self-supporting monolithic walls, also store temperature (heat or cold) because their solidity imbues them with the quality of thermal mass. The basic idea is to surround each living space with mass on three sides and line the south side of the building with windows. Sun enters through the glass and heats up the mass of the floors and walls. In the evening, when the air temperature drops below the stored wall temperature, heat is naturally released into the space. In the summer, with the sun high in the sky, the building stays cool with the constant temperature of the earth.  We enhance the cooling with natural ventilation through buried cooling tubes and operable vent boxes.

1. SOLAR AND WIND ELECTRICITY

Every building has its own renewable “power plant” with photovoltaic panels, batteries, charge controller, and inverter. The key step in making these systems affordable for residential use is to “design down” the electrical requirements of the home before the solar system is sized. Super efficient lighting, pumps, and refrigeration help lower the load, as does the lack of any need for electric heat or air conditioning. Add in daylight from the windows and skylights and a keen awareness of trickle drains and phantom loads, and an Earthship’s electrical needs are about 25 percent of that of a conventional home. Most residents can meet their demand with one kilowatt or less of energy from solar panels. Some also opt to add a small windmill to the system for gray, stormy climates.

1. WATER HARVESTING

Earthships collect all of their water from rain and snowmelt on the roof, storing this water in cisterns. (Each inch of rain collected from a square foot of roof equals 2/3 of a gallon of water. Multiply that by the total square footage of the roof and number of inches of rain per year, and you get your total possible collection.) Water from the cistern feeds a pump and filter system that cleans the water and sends it to a solar hot water heater and also to a pressure tank. From there, water is used for bathing, washing dishes, and laundry.

1. CONTAINED SEWAGE TREATMENT

The used gray water flows to interior botanical cells, where plants use up and treat the water until it’s clean enough to be collected in a well at the end of the planter and pumped, on demand, to the toilet tank for flushing. (Forty percent of water used in a conventional home is for toilet flushing.) The toilet water then goes to a conventional septic tank, which overflows into an exterior rubber-lined botanical cell filled with exterior landscaping plants. Every drop of water that lands on an Earthship roof is used four times, so homes can subsist and even thrive without taking water from the ground or municipal sources.

1. FOOD PRODUCTION

Interior, in-home, organic food production is the most recent design principle added to the Earthship concept. Earthship Biotecture employs a plant specialist who has experimented with the best plants for the interior gray-water botanical cells. She has also designed mini-hydroponic planters in suspended buckets that have added vertical growing space in the greenhouses and have tremendous yields of herbs, peppers, tomatoes, kale, beets, cucumbers, and more. The Earthship Visitor Center features all of these food-producing plants, and staff members regularly enjoy fresh produce straight off the vine. Aqua-botanical systems in the newest Earthship enhance food production capabilities with fish and nutrients from their waste.

Moulsecoomb Moonbase 1 – A Major New Tourist Attraction

Rivaling the tourist attractions of London’s famous Madam Tussaud’s, London Dungeons and Harry Potter’s Pinewood studio tour; a major new tourist attraction situated in the heart of Moulsecoomb would perfectly accompany the shopping and commercial area, encouraging visitors from across the world to visit, shop and explore.

Using the state of the art digital screen technology, visitors will be flown to the moon, via a £8 million state of the art Space-craft simulators.

Utilizing the space most recently used as the Bingo hall, visitors from across the world will get as close to the real experience of flying to the moon.

With a 24 hour hotel, amusement hall, casino, bars, restaurants and cinema; visitors to the moon, will be able to stay overnight, and return to Earth safe in the knowledge there will be no complications during the reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.

Using screens as windows, and tricks of the trade to convince the visitors they’ve left the confines of planet Earth, Moulsecoomb’s Moonbase 1 will offer a unique tourist experience, unavailable anywhere else in the world.

Generating a vibrant and exciting attraction, hundreds of jobs can be generated. Recreating a moonbase on Earth, Moulsecoomb will fast gain a reputation as the best place on Earth.

The ‘New Camelot’ Film & TV Studios

The jewel in the Crown of the whole Moulsecoomb and Bevendean development; a new film and TV studios constructed on the outskirts of Brighton, specifically using Earthship construction principles, will put Moulsecoomb on the international map, and guarantee high-end jobs and careers for generations to come.

Using Earthship construction principles; ie building with tyres, cans and glass bottles, an eco-friendly film and TV studios can be constructed on the outskirts of Brighton, with the minimum of cost and impact on the environment and landscape.

The ‘New Camelot’ Film and TV Studios will reflect the nature of Moulsecoomb and Bevendean in their style of construction, because as the suburbs of Brighton, Moulsecoomb and Bevendean touching the green spaces of the South Downs; the Earthship inspired construction of Michael Reynolds, allows a major construction on unspoiled countryside, which offers a near zero carbon and structural impact on the environment and landscape.

Bringing Hollywood back to Brighton; a new film industry will ignite, which over time, can rival Hollywood and Bollywood, as world leading movie producers.

The open rolling hills on the outsides of Brighton and within sight of Brighton’s Amex Stadium, make the perfect backdrop for film productions.

Named ‘New Camelot’ Film and TV Studios, this major new investment by Hollywood into the British film industry, will kick start the filming of the King Arthur II movie trilogy.

Set to break all box-office records and scoop a treasure chest of awards, the King Arthur II movie trilogy will be filmed in the South Downs; the perfect backdrop to recreate the South Wales countryside of the ancient British Kings.

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Hollywood Loves King Arthur

A New Moulsecoomb Motor Race Track

Originally planned to be built at Portslade, near Brighton, a new track was planned but never achieved.

If it was good enough for Portslade, then its good enough for Moulsecoomb.

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

• THE MCLAREN DEVELOPMENT
• NEW MOULSECOOMB TRAIN STATION
• HEALTH SPA, PUBLIC BATHS/SWIMMING POOLS, LEISURE CENTRE
• SHOPPING MALL, MARKET AND COMMERCIAL UNITS
• STUDENT & FAMILY HOUSING
• MOULSECOOMB MOONBASE1
• NEW CAMELOT FILM/TV STUDIOS
• NEW MOULSECOOMB MOTOR RACE TRACK

Moulsecoomb and Bevendean has the potential to attract major investment from across the world. With a keen work-force and a street savvy community, Moulsecoomb and Bevendean can become a major tourist attraction, generating a wealthy and vibrant local economy.

This means jobs jobs jobs. Jobs in the heart of Moulsecoomb and Bevendean.

Ensuring Earthship inspired construction methods are enforced across the project; the prospect of a major redevelopment of the area, would appease public opinion, rather if conventional constructive methods were applied.

Top Ten Moulsecoomb and Bevendean Attractions Today

• 1. The Schools.
• Moulsecoomb Primary School voted best in Sussex
• 2. The Bevendean Pub
• The first community shared pub in the country.
• 3. The Dew Pond
• The amazing countryside surrounding Moulsecoomb and Bevendean.
• 4. The Amex Stadium
• It goes to prove Dreams do come true. A majestic structure over-looking rolling countryside.
• 5. The 67 Centre
• A great place for teenagers to meet, have fun and learn.
• 6. The Churches
• Religions are well served with a variety of holy places of all denominations around the area.
• 7. The play-grounds
• With plenty of open spaces, children are well catered for.
• 8. The Woods
• With the countryside mixing with urban sprawls, the mixture works perfectly.
• 9. The Keep
• A state of the art archive centre, catering for all the countries most precious and valuable documents.
• 10. The 49 Buses
• Regular transport into the city centre and beyond to Portslade, the 49 buses ensure the resident’s of Moulsecoomb and Bevendean get where they want to go.