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is a flourishing, active, modern community, famed for its rich historic and architectural heritage. The ancient High Street, lined with lime trees, has many individual shops which are well worth exploring. It is regarded as one of the finest High Streets in Sussex with over forty medieval and post medieval timber-framed houses.
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With our kind regards
The Members and Staff of Lindfield Parish Council
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 Lindfield Parish Council
6 Denmans Lane
Lindfield
RH16 2LB
Tel: 01444 484115
Fax: 01444 484918
clerks@lindfieldparishcouncil.gov.uk
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Opening Times:
Tuesdays: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Thursdays: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Fridays: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Open at other times by appointment
Clerk: Christine Irwin
Deputy Clerk: Pieter Hemsley
Responsible Financial Officer: Sue Kolien |
STATEMENT BY LINDFIELD PARISH COUNCIL
COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE REVIEW OF HAYWARDS HEATH
Residents of Brook Lane, Roundwood Lane and the properties in High Beech Lane between these roads, who may be aware of a recent Mid Sussex District Council report on the review of Community Governance of Haywards Heath, will have been very disturbed to learn that there was a proposal in that report to redefine the boundary between Heath Ward and Lindfield Parish with the effect that properties in these roads would go into Heath Ward.
We thought it would help to put residents’ concerns to rest if we explained the background and the outcome of the Mid Sussex District Council meeting at which this report was discussed.
Mid Sussex District Council, in January this year, announced the commencement of the first consultation period for Community Governance Review of Haywards Heath Town Council. The letter sent to the Parish Council stated that the Review had been requested by Haywards Heath Town Council to examine the boundaries within Haywards Heath with particular focus on the possibility of the Bolnore Village area being warded separately. The accompanying survey form was aimed at residents of Haywards Heath town and there appeared to be nothing about the review that would affect Lindfield, so we concluded that a response from this Parish Council was not appropriate.
However the responses submitted to MSDC were taken into consideration by authors of the report for the Council meeting held on 16 June and this was when the suggestion to move properties west of High Beech Lane to Heath Ward first appeared in a document. The report stated:
“Changes to boundary between Heath Ward and Lindfield Parish. In the main, the boundary between Heath Ward and Lindfield Parish is marked by Summerhill Lane, Portsmouth Lane and High Beech Lane. This produces a clear natural boundary. However there are a small number of properties (around 60) to the west of High Beech Lane which a[re] part, currently, of Lindfield Parish, but could perhaps more logically form part of Heath Ward of Haywards Heath Town. This addition would help off-set the reduction in the size of Heath ward which would result from the change of its boundary with Lucastes Ward.”
The Parish Council was totally unaware of this proposal to change the boundary between Heath Ward and Lindfield Parish until our District Councillors Margaret Hersey and Christopher Snowling (who are also Members of this Parish Council) picked it up from their meeting papers and brought it to the attention of other Members and Officers of the Parish Council.
Councillor Snowling raised this at the Parish Council’s Planning and Traffic Committee meeting on 15 June and his fellow Councillors were surprised and displeased that this had been added to the report without their knowledge and they were strongly opposed to the proposal.
At the meeting of the full Parish Council on 24 June, Members were relieved to hear that Councillor Snowling, at the MSDC Council meeting on 16 June, had been successful in moving an amendment which excluded the proposals relating to Lindfield from the second stage consultation. The Minutes of that Mid Sussex District Council meeting can be found on MSDC’s website using the following link
(http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/Nimoi/sites/msdcpublic/resources/1006162.pdf)
We would like to reassure our residents that the Parish Council would not consider supporting such a proposal unless there is a clear demand from residents that we should do so.
The second stage consultation is now in progress and will end on 29 September 2010.
Follow the link below to access details on MSDC's website
http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/page.cfm?pageID=7993
Christine Irwin
Parish Clerk
02.07.10