A park drainage system will be created to absorb run-off water pollution from one of Brighton’s busiest roads.

Experts are analysing the site at Wild Park, in Moulsecoomb, before the main groundwork starts in August.

The £1.79 million project comprises four shallow wetlands which will hold water during heavy rainfall, filtering out pollution from nearby Lewes Road before the water drains into the city’s underground chalk aquifer.

Andy Westwood, head of transport projects and engineering at Brighton & hove City Council, said the “pioneering” project will benefit people, water and nature.

The four wetland basins will be in a grass area alongside Lewes Road, before the park entrance road.

The council says pollution will be broken down through a variety of processes involving plants, sunlight and microbes in the soil.

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