The Kemp Town estate there had been a success in 1824 architect Charles Busby entered into an agreement to build a similar development on land lying at the extreme east of Hove, adjacent to Brighton.

Brunswick Town was built as a collaborative project between Busby and the landowner, the Reverend Thomas Scutt.

[2] Busby designed Brunswick Town as a long row of terraced houses facing the sea.

At the extreme eastern edge of Brunswick Terrace, on the border of Hove and Brighton, the modernist Embassy Court apartment block was completed in the 1930s, envisaged by local politicians such as Sir Herbert Carden as the beginning of a transformation of the entire seafront, which would have entailed the obliteration of Brunswick Terrace.

[a] By the late 1940s Brunswick Square itself had become so run-down that the Council was considering wholesale demolition and redevelopment with modern housing.

In July 2024 he replaced Labour councillor Jilly Stevens, who stepped down due to ill health.