 The Regency style lives on in Brunswick Square. Pic, Jim Livesey |
An architect who played a part in designing much of late-Regency Brighton and Hove has had a blue plaque unveiled outside his former residence. Charles Augustin Busby worked on the Kemp Town estate to the east of the city, but most significantly on the Brunswick Town development in the west.
Councillor Averil Older said: "We are delighted to erect a memorial to one of our most important local figures."
The plaque was placed at No.2 Lansdowne Place in Hove.
Busby died in 1834, with Brighton and Hove's Gothic House, formerly a Debenhams store in Western Road and the now demolished St Margaret's Chapel, also on his list of achievements.
Brunswick 'new town'
Mr Older said: "Charles Busby created some of the finest examples of Regency architecture in the country, so a plaque to commemorate him at the place where he lived and died is long overdue."
He was nominated for one by the Lansdowne Area Residents' Association.
The Brunswick Town estate he designed included Brunswick Square, the Brunswick Terraces, Waterloo Street and Lansdowne Place.
A spokesperson for the Regency Town House, a heritage and museum project for Regency-era Brighton and Hove, said: "Busby's grand scheme was not simply for housing, but for a carefully planned new town complete with all the necessary infrastructure for the different social groups who took up residence."
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