Developer Cathedral Group has won a bid to build an eco-friendly £40m mixed-use scheme in the centre of Brighton.
The zero-carbon scheme, which will house 180 homes, offices and a library for the University of Brighton, has been designed by architect John McAslan & Partners.
It is expected to include a wind turbine, plant-covered roofs and a solar energy plant, a rainwater collection and irrigation network, and an organic supermarket.
The complex, to be built on a 0.75-acre brownfield site to the east of the city centre, will also house shops, restaurants, a piazza, dance studios and a business incubator.
Gardiner & Theobald is cost consultant, while Arup is working as sustainability engineer. Construction work is expected to start on the site by next March.
Brighton and Hove council is understood to have informed Cathedral Group of its decision around the time of MIPIM last month.
Planning permission was expected to be granted this week.
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