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Five-storey block of flats approved for Boltro Road

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Published on 27/01/2013 18:00

Land near the offices where the Mid Sussex Times started in 1881 may be turned into a housing site, councillors decided.

Publisher and editor Charles Clarke brought out the first issue of the paper from Boltro Road in Haywards Heath and it rose from selling a few hundred copies to a peak of about 22,000 about 100 years later.

The paper moved in the 1990s to its current base at South Road, Haywards Heath.

Under a plan just approved, the front buildings at 17-21 Boltro will remain, but those behind would be demolished to make way for a five-storey block of 23 flats.

The application by Jemaclin to extend by three years a previous approval won approval by the North east area planning committee of Mid Sussex District Council last Thursday.

Under the new approval the amount of so-called “affordable” homes will  drop from 100 per cent to 30 per cent.

The meeting heard that this change complied with current policy.

The firm will have to complete a legal agreement to pay contributions to services and agree the level of affordable housing.

The old Middy offices near the site were used for many years as a day school for youngsters with social, emotional and behavioural problems, but the school has since moved to near Market Place.

Under the scheme a central courtyard would separate the new block of flats from the existing buildings fronting Boltro Road.

Residents of ground-floor flats would have access to a private garden.

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