Number of homes within Sayers Common development increased

The total number of new homes set to be built within a Sayers Common development currently under construction is set to be increased.
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Detailed planning permission for 120 homes at Kingsland Laines north of Reeds Lane has already been granted.

The access point off London Road has already been created and building work on the first few homes is already underway.

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Developers have redrawn plans for part of the site to increase the total number of new homes due to be built by 13.

The wider development site in blue, the parcel in question in redThe wider development site in blue, the parcel in question in red
The wider development site in blue, the parcel in question in red

The redesigned layout for part of the site would see 40 instead of 27 new properties.

The revised plans were approved by Mid Sussex District Council’s planning committee on Thursday (November 12).

Officers explained how the road layout was largely the same but the increase had been achieved by replacing four and five-bed properties with two and three-bed dwellings.

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Some detached houses have been replaced with terraced and semi-detached properties.

Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common Parish Council continued to raise concern about sewage capacity and flooding. 

Christopher Phillips (Ind, Copthorne and Worth) said: “It’s good to see developers being more realistic about the sizing of the housing. In my own ward the developers are struggling to sell five-bedroom houses. Maybe we are going back into a period of realism.”