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Homes England
Housing News
Construction at the Northern Arc to begin this Spring Construction at Freeks Farm expected to begin this spring£7.7 million committed by Homes England as construction expected to begin this spring/summer to deliver a bridge and link road connecting Freeks Farm and Isaacs LanePlanning application submitted for new link road connecting the Northern A...
Freeks Lane and Freeks Farm – Notification of Works
Brookleigh News
Countryside Properties and Homes England will be commencing pre-development works along Freeks Lane and at Freeks Farm during the week commencing 17th February 2020.   The red line indicates the location of the pre-development works. This will comprise tree management and removal, contamination remediation, landscape mitigation planting a...
Northern Arc Update – January 2020
Brookleigh News
Homes England has released the first in a series of quarterly newsletters to provide an update on the progress of delivery of the Northern Arc. Development at the Northern Arc is part of the ambitious Burgess Hill Strategic Growth Programme which will transform the local economy by creating thousands of new jobs and homes. The Northern Arc has been...
Infrastructure upgrades planned for Burgess Hill
Community and infrastructure News
Mid Sussex District Council is looking at ways to improve sustainable transport infrastructure, reduce congestion and increase connectivity across Burgess Hill. Burgess Hill will grow significantly over the next 15 years into a modern, thriving town where local people want to live and work. Substantial investment is planned from both the private an...
Progress at the Northern Arc will ensure new homes and infrastructure benefit local community
Brookleigh News
The construction of 3,000 new homes – 30 percent of which will be affordable – at Burgess Hill in Mid Sussex is a step closer after the Government's housing agency submitted additional planning documents and began the search for a contractor.  Homes England, which owns the 200-hectare site known as the Northern Arc, has amended plans after lis...
Early works underway for ‘superb new development’ in Burgess Hill
Housing News
Major works have started to bring 325 new homes to Burgess Hill. Glenbeigh Developments Ltd is working to ready a brownfield site for the new homes at the former sewage works site in Fairbridge Way, the district council said. Councillor Andrew MacNaughton, cabinet member for Housing and Planning at Mid Sussex District Council, said: "It is especial...
£20m improvement proposals for A2300 in Burgess Hill
Transport News
Proposals for more than £20million worth of highway improvements to ease congestion on the A2300 corridor in Burgess Hill are to go on display soon, West Sussex County Council has said  The proposals, which will be displayed in a series of public exhibitions later this month, include: Widening the existing A2300 from single to dual carriageway...
Regeneration of Burgess Hill takes a step forward
Business News
The regeneration of our town has taken a step forward, Mid Sussex District Council has said today. Work has started at The Hub, a 15-hectare site for industrial, warehouse and office developments. DPD, the UK's leading parcel delivery brand, has taken up 4,000 metres of land there, the council said. Councillor Jonathan Ash-Edwards, the district cou...
Homes England takes control of 3,000-home Burgess Hill scheme
Housing News
Homes England has taken control of the delivery of more than 3,000 homes north of Burgess Hill. The Government body, previously known as the Homes and Communities Agency, has acquired land at the strategic site known as the Northern Arc. The area is allocated in Mid Sussex District Council's local plan, but bringing the site forward has been made c...