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Sayers Village and Hamlet

At the end of 2022 Mid Sussex District Council consulted on a draft housing plan which proposed that 2,000 (now 2,400)  houses should be built on agricultural land between Sayers Common and Albourne. This scheme poses a real threat to our environment and has no proper infrastructure plans to support it. It came as a nasty shock to local people who hadn’t been meaningfully involved.
Sayers Village and Hamlet, as the developer, Berkeley Homes, calls it, has been seized on by the Council as a way of meeting their housing target. There’s no other reason to justify it, and the scheme flies in the face of national advice and guidance. What’s more, the Council have another way out of the problem – if they have the courage to take it. 
 
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Current status

Mid Sussex revised their housing plan following the last consultation, and issued the next version. This lead into a further consultation – Regulation 19,  which ran from Friday 12th January until 23:59 on Friday 23rd February 2024. The council reviewed this information and the final planning inspection has begun.

How you can Help?

 

● Join us! If you would like to get more involved and join the WILD team, let us know via our Contact page.

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● Tell us what you know or hear via our Contact page.

● Contact your local councillors (you’ll find their details on our Who’s Who page)

– Ask them if they are aware of how the planning rules are changing.

– Ask them to press the Council to start work now on the case for a lower planning number.

– Ask them to push for it to be reflected in the next version of the plan.

– And ask them for their support in throwing out the Sayers Common Garden Village scheme.

Past Campaigns

LAMBS

A successful campaign by the LAMBS comittee, LAMBS was formed ten years ago to fight the plan of a developer, Mayfields Market Towns (MMT), to build a new town of more than 10,000 houses on land near Wineham and Twineham. MMT were very aggressive and well resourced, but LAMBS and local people proved to be more than a match for them. Mayfields were defeated and have gone away, However, they’ve sold their interest to Berkeley Homes, who are behind the Sayers Village scheme which threatens our community now

 

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 Dr Roger Smith of Campaign to Protect Rural England …..“This is about people power, people defending their communities from predatory speculators who seek to impose a massive and inappropriate development on countryside.”