NEWS AND FEATURES FROM MID SUSSEX DISTRICT COUNCIL www.midsussex.gov.uk | Issue 95 Winter 2018 Winter 95 | Issue www.midsussex.gov.uk KEEPING ACTIVE AND CONNECTED throughout Mid Sussex 6 Community Service Award winners and WIN festive waste and recycling day changes + TravelodgePanto Break tickets & Chrati Dsrutsillmas as from Saturday 17th November 2018 Meet Father Christmas A meet-and-greet experience that includes a quality gift (see website for dates, times and prices) The Husky Cave You’d be barking mad to miss it! (see website for dates and times) Christmas Lights Daily from Saturday 17th November - Tuesday 1st January Hello Kitty Parlour Pop into the Parlour for seasonal activities including Christmas face painting and tattoos (see website for dates and times) Festive Food Enjoy a glass of mulled wine and delicious mince pies Book your tickets ONLINE in advance and SAVE 10% www.drusillas.co.uk Check out the details at www.drusillas.co.uk At Alfriston just off the A27 near Eastbourne Call: 01323 874100 LOCAL NEWS 4/5 Mid Sussex Matters is sent to all residents WELLBEING MATTERS 6/7 and provides you with COMMUNITY SERVICE information about our AWARDS 8/9 services. Published by in this issue... the Communications GRANTS 10 Team, Mid Sussex District Council, Oaklands Road, BUSINESS MATTERS 11 Haywards Heath, West BURGESS HILL GROWTH Sussex RH16 1SS. PROGRAMME 12/13 Design by Sublime: www.wearesublime.com COMMUNITY HOMES MATTER 15 SERVICE AWARDS / 8 Printed by Storm Print & Design: FIGHT AGAINST FOOD WASTE 16 www.stormprintanddesign.co.uk FESTIVE WASTE & 72,000 copies are distributed RECYCLING 17 free to Burgess Hill, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath and WINTER MATTERS 18 Mid Sussex villages. YOUR COUNCIL 19 This magazine is delivered by the Royal Mail according to local EAST GRINSTEAD AT postcode boundaries. From FIGHT AGAINST time to time these exceed the FOOD WASTE / 16 CHRISTMAS 20/21 authority boundaries, but we hope that even if you live outside EVENTS 22/23 of Mid Sussex, you will still find something of interest within these pages. £17million to upgrade the A2300, £15million Editorial: 01444 477240 Welcome to the latest Email: [email protected] for a package of other transport and edition of Mid Sussex infrastructure improvements to manage the Next issue out on the flow of traffic and £6.5million to improve the 11 March 2019. Matters. waste treatment facility at Goddards Green. Inclusion of advertisements does not constitute a recommendation Mid Sussex has strong and diverse New affordable homes are just part of the by Mid Sussex District Council of communities. Having somewhere to call story. Helping to create local jobs is also the products or services offered home, a secure job, and places to enjoy are critical. Work has now started on the first of or the organisations involved, nor our two new business parks for Burgess Hill. will the council incur any liability fundamental to our way of life. We are seeing for any claim relating to them. new homes and jobs delivered across the Haywards Heath has welcomed proposals District while also ensuring we keep what for modern, high quality office space on If you need this publication in Perrymount Road. These new business another language or format makes Mid Sussex a great place to live, work please call 01444 458166. and enjoy. centres will have a vital role to play in providing increased job opportunities for We continue to play an important role the growing towns. East Grinstead now has Follow us: MSDCnews lobbying government and working with a new hotel, boosting tourism and bringing people into the historic medieval high street. Find us at: businesses and other partners to argue for MidSussexDistrictCouncil increased investment in our district and Taken together these are an important vote region. Our success in working with Homes of confidence in our local economy. England is a great example and only the start. With Christmas just around the corner it’s the perfect time to sign up to our Fight Homes England has recently held exhibitions Against Food Waste. Many of us love a displaying their plans for the 3,500 homes turkey sandwich in the days after Christmas, planned for the Northern Arc in Burgess I love mine with salad cream. You can find Hill. Their involvement alone is key to a website link to lots of other great ideas bringing over 1,000 affordable homes to Mid for using Christmas leftovers in our feature Sussex. They have the power to ensure new on page 16. The challenge will be to reduce infrastructure investment comes with the food waste all year round. Remember, Cover - Burgess Hill homes we know people need. Plans include leftovers are for life, not just for Christmas. Marching Youth supporting a three new schools, healthcare provision, local Silver Sunday event ultrafast broadband and a new centre for Of course Christmas is a time for family and community sport. friends and I’d like to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry These developments are carefully co- Christmas and a Happy ordinated to maximise investment in New Year. improved infrastructure for local people. It’s a proven and successful approach that Cllr Garry Wall has already enabled us to secure funding of Leader, Mid Sussex District Council LOCAL NEWS Evening and weekend REFILL GP appointments FOR FREE CAMPAIGN An exciting Refill Scheme has launched in Mid Sussex encouraging cafes, bars, restaurants, banks, galleries, museums and other businesses to allow passers-by to fill up their water bottle for free. Look for this sticker in the window. Some 7.7 billion plastic bottles are bought in the UK each year, a huge amount of which ends up as single-use plastic waste in the ocean. Refill Mid Sussex builds on the success of Refill around Evening and the UK, which now boasts a network of over 12,000 Refill weekend GP Stations. Find out more about Refill Mid Sussex and how to take part at www.facebook.com/Refillmidsussexdistrict or visit appointments www.refill.org.uk to download the free app. Every patient registered with a GP in Mid Sussex can now access evening and weekend appointments. New primary care hubs will open this autumn across the district, offering both routine and urgent appointments. The service was developed by NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), working in partnership with local patients and clinicians. Patients can book appointments by contacting their registered GP Practice in the normal way. Keeping you informed We want to keep you up to date with all the projects and activities in your community. Mid Sussex Matters Follow us In Remembrance Published 3 times MSDCnews each year On 11 November 2018, events across the country marked 100 years since the guns fell silent at the Our website Find us at end of the Great War. A Centenary Beacon was lit at Westminster Abbey and communities across the www.midsussex.gov.uk MidSussexDistrictCouncil country held their own remembrance ceremonies. MSDC made £250 funding available for Town and You can sign up to a free online version of MSM Parish Councils to light beacons as part of their which comes out between paper editions by remembrance ceremonies through the Beacons of submitting your email at Light scheme. www.midsussex.gov.uk/msm 4 Mid Sussex Matters Winter 2018 www.midsussex.gov.uk LOCAL NEWS Time to get involved? District, Town and Parish Council elections will be taking place on Thursday 2nd May 2019. Nominations happen well in advance of this date, so if you are thinking about becoming a candidate, now is the time to start planning. Councillors are ordinary people doing an extraordinary job. They are people who are elected to the local council to represent people in their community. Becoming a councillor is a rewarding form of public service. You would be in a position to make a difference to the quality of other people’s daily lives and prospects. However, being an effective councillor requires both commitment and hard work. Candidates East Grinstead Town Councillor Sweatman. must either live or work in the area. It’s a wide-ranging responsibility, though each individual councillor chooses exactly how they For more information about being a District Councillor work. This can include many different things: please visit www.midsussex.gov.uk/elections-voting/ being-a-councillor • Representing the ward they are elected in For more information about the role of Parish and Town Councillors please visit your local council’s • Decision-making website or contact the Parish/Town Clerk. • Developing and reviewing council policy on a range of issues To vote at elections and to maintain your • Scrutinising the decisions taken by the executive credit file you must Cabinet be on the electoral register. • Regulatory duties Apply online Community leadership and engagement • at: www.gov.uk/ register-to-vote Pictured: Haywards Heath Town Councillor Anne Boutrup Getting your views on electric vehicles Electric vehicles are becoming a viable proposition for a lot of people as a low-carbon and economic way of getting from A to B. They may also help tackle some poor air quality issues. The Government has signalled support for electric vehicles (EVs) by announcing targets for the phasing out of petrol and diesel vehicles and financial support to encourage the uptake of EVs. We upgraded the charging points in three Council car parks last year and are exploring ways of increasing charging point provision to encourage the uptake of EVs locally. As part of this exploration we have a quick online survey to get an idea of resident’s views about the issue.