Haywards Heath residents protest about homes plans

The Fox Hill Association believes the plans, which would put Hurst Farm among other areas, under threat, would create a huge extension to the town, south of a promised relief road which has strill not been built.

Association chairman David Cochrane said: " When residents found out about the plans they were furious. Though the council is required to consult with the public, no-one in our area had any idea of what was being mooted."

Residents said that Hurst Farm land was rated as of equal landscape value to the Victoria Park industrial Estate in Burgess Hill and that though the plans claim to protect the strategic gap, in fact the plans will place a further 700 houses at less than 2km from Burgess Hill, a huge encroachment on the strategic gap.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette March 19