L3Harris Brighton

L3HARRIS ARE WARMONGERS WHO PROFIT FROM DEATH

L3Harris Brighton (formerly known as EDO MBM) have a factory at Unit 2, Home Farm Business Park, Moulsecoomb, Brighton . The company design, develop and manufacture electro-mechanical components and technology for the niche industry of weapons carriage and release systems used to launch missiles, bombs and other munitions from military fighters and bombers, helicopters, and drones.

L3Harris products and weapons integration services are supplied to UK, US, and NATO customers as well as other military forces around the world, including Saudia Arabia, UAE, and Israel. These military forces have and continue to use these products to target civilian objects and commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against defenceless civilian populations. The UK government continues to authorise and assist these atrocities both with arms export licences and direct participation in the atrocities themselves, including secret extra-judicial assassinations carried out in the name of UK interests without any public accountability.

While Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC) has condemned the presence of the factory in our city, its leaders have also admitted they have no legal power to stop its warmongering activities, even when L3Harris sought its permission to permanently extend the Brighton factory in November 2023, after a temporary five year permission granted in 2018 expired.

After hundreds of objections to this planning application from members of the public in December 2023, BHCC took legal advice and changed its position, allowing the Planning Committee to vote unanimously against the L3Harris application by giving due regard to a detailed assessment of the impact of the factory extension on the social cohesion of the city.

L3Harris filed an appeal against the BHCC Planning Committee decision in December 2024, arguing that the planning committee “misguided itself” by considering its Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), which requires BHCC to protect minorities and relations between protected groups within the city, as a material consideration in the planning decision making process. Clearly L3Harris has as little concern for the people of Brighton as it does for the victims of its weapons equipment in Palestine, Yemen, Syria, and around the world. They only care about making money from war and destruction and are not welcome in this city.

BAAT and STOPL3Harris encourage public participation in the defence of the BHCC decision against the L3Harris challenge. We exercise our democratic right to comment on the appeal, and express our anger and protest at the clear disregard, by one of the largest US owned arms makers in the world, of the well being and social cohesion of the people of Brighton and Hove, and the victims of its complicity in the Genocide in Palestine.