Mid-Sussex
27 January 2014
Inappropriate development threats and thwarted plan examinations have dominated the news in Mid Sussex District over the last 3 months. See below for updates on Development Plans, Neighbourhood Plans and the Draft for the Mid Sussex DC Plan.
"Mayfield is selling castles in the sand" says CPRE Sussex Trustee
Written by William Shaw
Responding to a recent article by Mayfield Market Towns director Peter Freeman, CPRE Sussex Trustee Michael Brown has blasted Freeman's company as "a development company that is selling castles in the sand" in the Mid Sussex Times, on 16 January 2013.
4 December 2013
In an adjournment debate yesterday Westminster Hall today Nicholas Soames MP appealed to the Secretary of State for Planning to ensure that unsupported plans like those put forward by Mayfield Market Towns in Sussex should not be allowed. He said that “Even the most zealous supporter of the scheme could not call it sustainable.” He called the developers' plans “Grotesque and wholly unwanted".
Campaigners angry that Mid Sussex Plan is rejected on technicality
Written by CPRE Sussex
4 December 2013
Countryside campaigners are united in fury at the news that the Mid Sussex District Plan has been rejected on a technicality- leaving the door open to speculative property developers who are determined to build on green field sites.
News: Nicholas Soames MP secures Mayfield debate
Written by William Shaw29 November 2013
Nicholas Soames, Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex, has secured an Adjournment Debate in the Westminster Hall on the ‘Proposed Mayfield new town in West Sussex’ on Tuesday, 3rd December
The major issue is for 10,000 new homes on precious countryside between Sayers Green and Henfield – ‘Mayfields Market Town’.
An application by the Borde Hill estate owners to build a big housing estate at Penlands Farm on the north western edge of Horsham and another next door at Sugworth Farm (though that seems to be on hold).
19 June 2013
New Mid Sussex District Plan
The public consultation period has now ended on the proposed submission draft of Mid Sussex District Council’s new District Plan. This plan, if and when adopted, will direct strategic planning across the District from now until 2031. The plan will now go forward for a public examination by the Planning Inspectorate, probably around the turn of the year.
26 April 2013
News update from Mid-Sussex CPRE, including updates on the Mid Sussex District Plan.
Important - Mid Sussex District Plan on Hold
Mid Sussex DC has decided not to submit its own district plan for public examination until the coalition government has rescinded the South East Plan.
This is important because the Plan imposed a very high housing allocation that would have resulted in overwhelming building levels. We have received mixed signals on the timing of the repeal, but it may be before the end of the year. In the meantime, neighbourhood groups are campaigning against the planned urban extension to Burgess Hill, development sites in Haywards Heath and proposals to build to the south west of East Grinstead.
