 A new planning application seeking full demolition and replacement with two blocks of flats was refused in August 2013.Elsewhere on Wellington Road, Victorian houses are interspersed with postwar blocks of flats.The top (east) end of the road was undeveloped until the late 19th century, except for the Brighton Workhouse—built in 1865–67 to replace an earlier building established in the West Hill area in 1822.