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Holland Road, HOVE, BN3 1JR

The garage is all that remains of a former bungalow that stood on this site and that too will be demolished soon. The bungalow went because the price of the land it was on outstripped the value of the actual building the result will be similar to Image where a block of flats with its own parking will be erected instead.

The only pub in the square is on the crossroads of Holland Road and the B2120 with the western portion named Cromwell Road. Built in the 1850s as a hotel to serve the newly opened Hove station up Holland Road to the right. The name derives from the former landowner in the area, Sir Isaac Goldsmid, who at the behest of Queen Victoria assisted in solving a land dispute for the Portuguese government in South America and was awarded the Baronetcy of Palmeira as a reward. This looks in a westerly direction from the crossroads, with part of the building now a corner shop which itself is on the junction of Cromwell Road and Lorna Road.

Placed in the car park for Wickes DIY store on the Peacock Industrial Estate.

The house was built in the 1920s and in recent years much had been converted into a nursery with a separate residential dwelling on the top floor. Both were the vicitim of an arson attack on 1 October 2017, thankfully there were no fatalities.

After proceeding along Cromwell Road the route turns south along Holland Road.

Located next door to Image and seven years on from Image when the previous structure was demolished the flats are only just being built. Originally a bungalow with a large garden the rise in house prices and the limitation for expansion within the borough of Brighton & Hove meant the land became worth more than the house itself and was sold for development over a decade ago.

More juxtaposition of new and not so new and again an indictment of how planning is gradually changing in this square. The long avenues and large plots in Hove leave it ripe for property developers to buy up land containing family houses in order to replace with blocks of flats or apartments. Amber Court was erected in the 1990s on the site of six former houses.

Located on the corner of Holland Road and built in the 1980s on the site of an old electricity works. The name derives from a story of a plane that crashed into the corner during the Second World War though it appears to have been a Bristol biplane in 1938 which probably wouldn't have sounded so good. After its construction it was used by Nurdin & peacock as a cash and carry then a series of telecom companies until its current occupiers, Marathonbet, moved in a few years ago. I'm guessing the building's primary use is for data storage.