Hove Park School Valley Campus and Nevill Campus, Hove - School Site Consolidation and Closure of Additional Campus

Statutory Notice – Proposal to discontinue the Hove Park School Valley Campus site, Hove and consolidate the school on the Nevill Campus site

Notice is given in accordance with section 19(2) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (as amended) and the School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2013 that Brighton & Hove City Council, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 3BQ, proposes to make a prescribed alteration to Hove Park School (a maintained secondary school).

The proposal is to discontinue the use of the Valley Campus, Hangleton Way, Hove, East Sussex BN3 8AA, as an additional site of Hove Park School with effect from 31 August 2028, and to consolidate all provision onto a single site at the Nevill Campus, Nevill Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 7BN, with effect from 1 September 2028.

Hove Park School currently provides education for pupils aged 11 to 18 across two sites. As of January 2025, the school operates with a published admission number of 180 pupils per year group. Pupils in Years 7 and 8 are currently educated at the Valley Campus, and pupils in Years 9 to 13 at the Nevill Campus.

If the proposal is approved, all pupils attending the Valley Campus, and all pupils offered a place at that site, will be accommodated at the Nevill Campus site at Nevill Road, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 7BN from 1 September 2028.

This notice is an extract from the full statutory proposal. Copies of the full proposal, which contains detailed information about the proposal, can be obtained from:

School Organisation Team, Brighton & Hove City Council, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 3BQ, or by email at educationandlearning@brighton-hove.gov.uk. 

The full proposal is also available on Brighton & Hove City Council’s website and on Hove Park School’s website: www.hovepark.org.uk. 

Within four weeks from the date of publication of this notice, any person may object to or make comments on the proposal. The closing date for representations is 5:00pm on 6 July 2026.

Representations can be made:

• via the Council’s online consultation portal

• by email to: educationandlearning@brighton-hove.gov.uk

• in writing to: School Organisation Team, Brighton & Hove City Council, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 3BQ

All responses must be received by the closing date stated above.

Signed: Deb Austin, Corporate Director, Families, Children & Wellbeing, Brighton & Hove City Council

Publication date: 8 June 2026