The plan has been thrown back at the Council by a government Inspector, who ruled that the District had failed in its Duty to Cooperate with neighbouring councils. The local tax payers will now have to foot the bill for a new plan and the District remains vulnerable to a tide of property developers, hoping to cash in on what’s been dubbed a building ‘free for all’.
“This is a sad day for the people of Mid Sussex,” said Michael Brown from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (Sussex) “It paralyses the district planning process for another year or more and it is a further nail in the already well-studded coffin of local democracy.”
The decision, which follows a controversial meeting in Haywards Heath last month, will affect everyone living in Mid Sussex and local businesses, including hundreds of local people who have been campaigning to protect the district’s countryside.
Read the joint LAMBS and CPRE Sussex Media release: "ANOTHER ‘NAIL IN THE COFFIN’ FOR LOCAL DEMOCRACY"