Scores of new flats are to be provided in a car-free development in Brighton.

There will be no parking at the former Brighton College of Technology site in Richmond Terrace.

Limited parking will be provided off-site and there will be a car club run by the developers, Richmond Terrace Brighton.

Another car club in the Hanover area has just received funding from the National Lottery.

Mark Strong, from the Hanover Community Association, told Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee it was essential the two schemes got together.

Tory councillor Carol Theobald said it was wrong to have a development of 72 homes with no car parking.

Labour councillor Pat Hawkes said: "It is possible to have these developments without people having cars. They are doing it at the old Argus building."

Tory councillor David Bennett said the way to enforce the scheme was to impose a condition that no one in the development should keep a car.

The scheme will include 24 affordable homes.

Voting was 5-5 before chairman Roy Pennington voted in favour of the scheme.

The main college building, which is listed, will be refurbished to provide 59 flats while the other 13 will be in a new building at the back.