 Since 1986 Downs Park and the Sainsbury's supermarket have been served by the Brighton & Hove bus company's route 6 to Brighton station via Portslade station, Aldrington, central Hove and central Brighton.A connecting road to the Mile Oak estate (Fox Way) was built the early 1990s but did not open until January 1996.A large park was built on the north side of this road on a former chalk pit—a site with a "peculiar shape" and steep slope—funded by a housing trust and Brighton Borough Council; Hove Borough Council agreed to maintain the park.