Find The Sewing Lounge

Find our classroom: map, transport, parking

 

For road closures, check https://one.network/ 

On Google Maps search 'Sew In Brighton, Hove' (not our postcode) for accurate road marker

• Or use these coordinates in Google Maps for our front door: 50.827892,-0.174030
• Or our What3words front door location is:  https://w3w.co/vanish.spoil.month

Classroom Address:

• Sew In Brighton - 18 Kingsway House, 134-140 Church Rd, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2DL. Our door is round the back of Moss Bros, on Osborne Villas

Accessibility info - stairs:
There are 3 flights of stairs to get up to the classroom so you may want to borrow one of our machines instead of bringing your own. Or pre-arrange help carrying yours up: contact us here before you book if you have any accessibility questions or may need help carrying items up the stairs. If accessibility is an issue, we do offer 1-2-1 lessons at your home, dependent on location & teacher availablity

Finding us once on Church Rd:

• We are in no.18 on the 3rd floor of Kingsway House. The entrance is behind Moss Bros menswear shop down short alley on Osborne Villas, which is on the south side of Church Rd, opposite Barclays Bank & south end of George St (look for the Kingsway House sign)
• Call no.18 on the intercom pad by pressing 1 then 8 then CALL (please try twice in the unlikely case that there’s no answer the first time).
• If there is a problem getting in please first call 01273 900648 (Sewing Lounge classroom number) and then Kat on 07958964810
• We are on the 3rd floor, office 18 - there are loos on the way up
  
  

Transport and Parking info

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

• Buses: Plenty of buses run up and down Church Road from all areas. We are opposite the South end of George St, and near Hove Town Hall – get off at the South end of George St from buses: 1, 1a, 6, 20x, 49, 49a  & get off at Hove Town Hall or Tesco and walk for a couple of minutes from the  2, 5, 25, 46, 8, 700. Check times at: http://www.buses.co.uk/travel
• Train: we are about 10 mins walk from Hove Station – walk in a southerly direction down the hill from station, cross over onto George St (pedestrian shopping street), walk down George St and when you reach the end you will see Moss Bros over the other side of the main road (now see the Finding Us instructions above from there)

PARKING 
Please check parking signs carefully to check you are in a paid parking space (not residents) with a long enough time allowed for your visit. This info could change, although we do our best to keep it up to date. We cannot take responsibility for any parking tickets! 

• Free parking: 
• Along Church Road and all the paid parking slots on roads around The Sewing Lounge are free after 8pm
• After 6pm every day in the disabled parking bays outside Modelo Lounge on Church Rd opposite us
• If have shopping to do you can currently park in Tesco free for up to 3 hours if you spend £5 or more in store. Before driving out of the carpark verify a special parking receipt you received when you shopped at the machine, to avoid a fine.  It's monitored with cameras. Please check up to date parking restrictions here before parking as they could change without us realising - worth checking the ticket machines every time. Often you don't need to verify the receipt but worth checking each time and make sure not to overstay 3 hours. Correct at May '24
• Between 11am - 7pm on New Church Road from St Philips Church, Hove and for a while along this main road towards Portslade. Please be aware it is a 15-20 minute walk down one road to The Sewing Lounge from St Philips Church so parking any further away from that would add extra walking time. On this same road is permit holders only (from around St Philips Church and towards the opposite direction towards Hove/Sewing Lounge) so be aware of the signs where you are parked and best to check distance on Google Maps first! 

• Paid parking on the streets: If you are driving please allow at least 20 minutes extra time to park. There are quite a few payable parking spaces with 2hr, 4hr and 11hr parking allowed (says on signs) on Osborne Villas and the other roads around The Sewing Lounge - such as Albany Villas, Hova Villas, Hove Place, Medina Villas (search for 'Sewing Lounge Hove' on google maps). There are also lots of residential spaces so make sure to avoid these. Parking is serviced by PayByPhone which has replaced most of the parking meters in Brighton & Hove (and there is usually one credit card meter per street - you'll need your credit card & your vehicle registration plate number & the time to walk down half a street and back to put the slip in your car!) Parking is £7.70 for 6-24h and £5.40 for 4hrs on Paybyphone (updated May '24)
• Smart phone users: we recommend pre-registering your credit card & car reg with PayByPhone before you leave the house (and memorise your 3 digit Security Code from the back of your credit card) then it's super quick to pay as you lock up & walk away from your car (no need to leave ticket in car). If you include your mobile number they'll text you a reminder when parking is about to expire
• 1. Pre register car registration number and credit card at the PayByPhone website or download phone app and register your reg and credit card
• 2. Find the Location Number Sign nearest to where you've parked & enter this 
• 3. Confirm by using the last 3 digits on the back of your bank or credit card.
• Non smartphone users options - memorise your car reg and:
  1. Meter: find a credit card meter (usually one per street)
  2. Shop: go to the nearest PayPoint outlet to get your ticket (the nearest is Four Seasons Food & Wine (Grocery/Deli) 102-104 Church Road (next to Bagelman) - 3/4 mins walk away from the Sewing Lounge) 
  3. Phone: if you have a phone call Paybyphone on 01273 458458 to arrange your parking once parked

• Local multi storey car park: 
  Norton Rd Multi Story opposite Hove Town Hall, 150 metres away towards Brighton. Whilst this can be busy in the week it is probably OK at weekends with less office workers filling it up. Prices same as on the street parking - approx: £7.70 for 6-24h and £5.40 for 4hrs on Paybyphone (updated November '22) - see details above under 'paid parking meters' - I'm not sure if they still take cash as haven't visited for a while so have your credit card handy and car reg plate number in your head! 

Bringing your sewing machine / overlocker and want to drop it off before you park? The best thing to do is to pull up outside the garages opposite our building entrance, which is on Osborne Villas. Then walk over with machine and ring the buzzer, pop machine inside just down the stairs from the front door, out of sight. Then go and park, comeback ring the buzzer, collect machine and bring it up the stairs.