Please note that Blackwell Hollow will be closed between 9.30am and 3.00pm on Monday 11th May to allow urgent treeworks to be carried out. Diversions will be put in place
A Health and Wellbeing Showcase event is being held on 15th December to promote and enhance working relationships between the County Council and other key professional networks, and voluntary sector organisations providing vital services for the promotion of health and wellbeing to adults in Crawley, Horsham and Mid Sussex.
The drop-in event is being held from 10:30 – 1:00 pm in the Park Suite, County Hall North, Horsham. For further information please contact Terina.Bryant@westsussex.gov.
We’re talking about your wheelie bins here and the collection arrangements over the holidays.
The collections crews will be placing tags on general waste bins w/b 7th & 14th December to let residents know about changes in collections over the holidays.
Full details of these changes can be found here http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/
Don’t forget you can also get your full calendar by inputting your postcode and address into the collection page here – http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/
Nothing stops Christmas, and nothing stops the town team who get together to put the Christmas tree up in the High Street. Town Council staff, members of the town’s Rotary Club aided by the Leader of the Town Council Rex Whittaker, were out in force on Wednesday morning setting the tree in place. The big switch on is this Saturday 5 December starting at 12 Noon A splendid afternoon is promised for one and all.
A reminder to local rural-based businesses that two new potential funding schemes are available. The Leader scheme is being run by West Sussex County Council and further details can be found here: https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/news/follow-the-leader-to-rural-business-success
Grants of between £2500 and £50000 are available. General information is available at http://www.businesswestsussex.co.uk/leadergrants
There is also a Digital Connectivity Grant Programme. This will be particularly relevant for small rural industrial estates with very poor broadband speeds. Details are available at http://www.coast2capital.org.uk/helping-business-growth/49-grant-funding/525-digital-connectivity-grant-programme.html
The twelve CCTV cameras currently on site around East Grinstead are now coming to the end of their working life. Sussex Police, who monitor them 24/7, find the cameras an invaluable tool for preventing crime and increasing public safety. The Town Council together with Mid Sussex District Council have secured funding to upgrade the Town Center’s existing CCTV cameras.
There are proposed changes to the location of some cameras, and the public is being asked for their comments before these proposals are put into action. Please take a moment to read the information and view the maps with this message and let us have your views.
CCTV Consultation East Grinstead
The Town Council run Thursday Farmers Markets are pleased to welcome two new stalls to the weekly market. Busses Beef Boxes and Brambletye Fruit Farm are joining the ever-popular Veasey’s Seafood stall on the Market Square in the historic High Street. The Market is open from 9.00 until 2.00 more stall holders are also expected in the coming months. The Town Council would be pleased to welcome further enquiries
On Saturday December 5th the Christmas tree in the High Street will have the lights turned on and a programme of events organised by the town’s
Rotary Clubs ,who provide the tree, has been announced.
There will be a Rotary presence in the town all day from 9-00am onwards. The sound system is kindly supplied by Meridian FM
Town Mayor Dick Sweatman was out and about in the High Street at the weekend to witness the High Street Traders Christmas Big Reveal. Now an annual date not to be missed, shops in the High Street tease passers by with covered up shop windows until one by one the coverings are taken down and the Christmas displays are revealed.
This year there was even a splattering of snow to bring a proper seasonal atmosphere to the proceedings. As each window was revealed there were appropriate Oohhs and AAhhs from the crowd. Taking our photographs was Town Promotion Manager Dawn Spalding who was on hand to explain when a passing visitor from Lingfield was heard to ask ‘What is going on?’
So impressed was he that he vowed to bring his family to look at the windows this year and to look out for it next year. Check the results out for your self in the run up to Christmas.
Mid Sussex District Council is encouraging bargain hunters who are gearing up for Black Friday on 27 November to make sure they recycle their packaging when everything arrives in the post.
Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year in the UK and millions of savvy shoppers will be jumping online to try and grab the best deals when retailers announce their 24 hour sales.
Last year, UK consumers spent an estimated £810 million on Black Friday, a figure that is expected to rise to almost £1.4 billion in 2015, and online giant Ebay anticipates that 9 million British people will visit its website on Friday 27 November this year.
The number of gifts now being bought online is dramatically increasing the amount of packaging arriving through letter boxes at home. Most Amazon orders are now packaged entirely in cardboard and many other online retailers use recyclable materials for their packaging.
Mid Sussex District Council is reminding local people to recycle all the cardboard packaging from their online purchases in their blue lidded recycling bin. Residents can also recycle the moulded plastic packaging that often protects gifts such as toys, headphones and tools.
“Lots of people will be looking to grab a bargain or two when the Black Friday sale starts on 27 November and we want residents to help us recycle as much of that packaging as possible,” said Councillor Pru Moore, Cabinet Member for Leisure and Sustainability. “If you have more recycling than you can fit in your bin then you can leave the excess in a box alongside for collection but please only do this if the weather is dry. If it rains and the cardboard gets wet then it will cause problems at the sorting facility and won’t be recycled.”
It’s important to remember that bubblewrap, soft plastic wrappings, plastic bags and polystyrene cannot be recycled and should be placed into the black rubbish bin.
Full details of what can and cannot be placed in the recycling can be found online at www.midsussex.gov.uk/recycling.
Following agreement at Council on 11th November 2015, Mid Sussex District Council is publishing a schedule of Focused Amendments to the Pre-Submission Draft District Plan, along with a Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment for public consultation.
The Schedule of Modifications, plus accompanying updated Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment are available to view at www.midsussex.gov.uk/districtplan . Updates to the evidence base, including the Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment (HEDNA) and Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) can also be viewed on this page.
Paper copies of the schedule and response forms are also available at libraries, Help Points, the District Council offices, and Town and Parish Council offices.
The consultation period lasts six weeks; the deadline for all responses is midnight on Thursday 31st December 2015.
Comments can be submitted:
Online: www.midsussex.gov.uk/districtplan
Email: LDFConsultation@midsussex.gov.uk
Post: Planning Policy and Economic Development, Oaklands, Oaklands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1SS
All comments will be public information, and will be submitted to an independent planning inspector as part of the public examination of the District Plan, alongside all representations received during the Pre-Submission Draft District Plan consultation held in June/July this year.
If you made representations on the Pre-Submission Draft District Plan during June/July 2015, there is no need to resubmit them during this representation period as your original representations will be submitted to the planning inspector. However, you may wish to alter or withdraw your representation in the light of the amendments made.
For further information on the District Plan, please contact the Planning Policy and Economic Development teamat planningpolicy@midsussex.gov.uk or 01444 477053.