Updates 20th and 23rd January
The Mayfield corpse is still twitching — much more here and here [PDF].
Category Archives: Mayfield
Localism after Mayfield
Nick Herbert muses on the National Planning Policy Framework in the wake of the Mayfield decision and the continuing threat to Hassocks/Hurstpierpoint.
Surplus to requirements
The Mid Sussex Times reports:
[Planning Inspector Geoff] Salter said it was up to HDC to decide how best to revise its housing strategy, and considered a new settlement was ‘not required in current circumstances’.
Burn Mayfield down II
LAMBS writes:
We are going to light the Christmas torches again this year to symbolise LAMBS continuing determination to fight Mayfield Market Town. We are meeting to ‘plant’ the torches along Wineham Lane at The Royal Oak between 3:30pm and 4:00pm on Monday, 8th December and then a BBC documentary team are coming at 6:00pm to film. Please do come along if you can, and there will be mulled wine and mince pies — donations for the torches and refreshments would be very welcome as it will all go towards the fighting fund.
Lee Newlyn says:
Our proposals are .. based upon a .. vision that brings together local politicians, landowners and residents to create a new settlement that benefits the local community.
Updated 7th December.
What is this land worth?
Mayfield Market Towns have stated that they control 464 acres of land in Horsham District, and 135 acres in Mid-Sussex District, some within the site proposed for their new town and some outside, but they have not yet provided evidence to support this claim. LAMBS, by contrast, currently has over 4,300 acres signed up as ‘not available’. They have released an interesting two-page document [PDF] that deals with valuation and compulsory purchase issues.
Pistols Barn owls at dawn at the O.K. Corral
“Mayfield Market Towns’ proposals faced a wall of opposition yesterday from every tier of local government. Defending its Housing Plan, Horsham District Council was flanked by two MPs, Sir Nicholas Soames and Nick Herbert, and representatives from Mid Sussex District Council, West Sussex County Council, nine Parish Councils, the CPRE and LAMBS.” [Much more here and here. Nick Herbert here.]
Updated: 22nd November.
Ongoing inspection
If you want to be briefed on the current proceedings in the Horsham District Council chambers, then here are three relevant articles:
- The battle begins [Henfield Hub]
- Scrutiny of Horsham’s local plan [West Sussex County Times]
- A bad omen for Mayfields? [LAMBS]
And the loser is .. Lee Newlyn!
On 28th October, Lee Newlyn’s Mayfield ideas were voted the least popular of four options with a show of just four hands in an audience of more than one hundred of the key players within the local property and construction sector at a forum titled Meeting Housing Needs in Brighton — Building In, Up or Out. Read more at LAMBS.
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
As readers who heard Peter Griffiths speak at the recent meeting of Fulking Parish Council already know, Mayfield Market Towns has been caught telling porkies. You can catch up on all the details at the LAMBS website. Nothing that Mayfield says in the future can be taken at face value.