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Haywards Heath retirement development plan
OUTLINE plans for a large retirement development on the outskirts of Haywards Heath are being recommended for refusal because of concerns over the strategic gap between Haywards Heath and Cuckfield.
However, population projections suggest there is a need for this type of development because, according to Government statistics, by 2033 a quarter of the population of the district will be over the age of 65.
The proposal is for a residential care home, a care home with dementia care facilities, up to 13 retirement bungalows and a sate-of-the art community building for Age UK to use instead of the day centre in Perrymount Road.
Boyer Planning on behalf of land owner W.T. Lamb Holdings, says: “The development proposals reflect the increasing need for suitable housing for the elderly in Mid Sussex”, but controversy surrounds the location of the development site, which is on 2.3 hectares of Greenfield land to the west of Beech Hurst Garden off Butlers Green Road.
District planners say the scheme’s benefits must be weighed against the “harm which would arise from development within a sensitive location on the edge of town and within the Haywards Heath and Cuckfield strategic gap.”
They recommend refusal because both the Mid Sussex Local Plan and the South East Plan seek to “prevent coalescence and retain the separate identity and amenity of settlements”.
The plans will be discussed at Mid Sussex District Council’s planning meeting, which starts at 2pm tomorrow (January 26) in the council chamber at Oaklands, Haywards Heath
For the full story and a plan of the site see this week’s Mid Sussex Times, which is out tomorrow (January 26).
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Wednesday 22 February 2012
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