Plans to build more than 200 affordable homes in an outlying district of Brighton have been scrapped following concerns about the scheme not being financially viable.

Due to be developed by Homes for Brighton & Hove, a joint venture between Brighton &and Hove council and the Hyde Group, the project was going to be built near Whitehawk, a district to the east of the south-coast city.

But the project was shelved at a meeting of the Homes for Brighton & Hove board earlier this week.