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Chichester District Council has launched a £500,000 discretionary grants scheme to support local community groups and businesses, as part of its Covid-19 recovery plan. £250,000 will be allocated to community groups and £250,000 will go to supporting businesses based within the Chichester district. Applications can be made to either scheme, but not both. “We understand …

Horsham District Council has refused to provide 1,715 homes a year for the next decade, saying that although it recognises the strong demand for new homes in West Sussex, “it is difficult enough already to find land that has few constraints for development and to absorb 1,715 homes every year would make that task virtually …

Mid Sussex leisure centres due to re-open September 1 At a special council meeting on August 19, approval was given for new operating arrangements so that leisure centres could re-open in the district. Kings Leisure Centre in East Grinstead, the Dolphin Haywards Heath and the Triangle in Burgess Hill were all given the go-ahead after …

In an incredible night for small parties and Independent candidates across the country on May 2, the Conservatives in West Sussex lost control of two out of five councils, with a considerably reduced majority in the remaining three. They also lost control of Rother, in East Sussex, in a third Sussex loss. In Brighton the …

The large seaside village, which sits between Worthing and Shoreham-on-Sea, has suddenly shot to fame with its idea to change its name, making it into not only local newspapers but the Daily Telegraph, Times, Guardian and Daily Mail. According to the parish council-led Lancing Vision Group, the addition of ‘on-Sea’ to its existing name would …

Around 3,500 homes will be built on land known as the ‘Northern Arc’ just north of Burgess Hill now that Mid Sussex District Council has approved plans put forward by the government agency Homes England. The 481-acre includes three schools, sports and leisure facilities, ‘health provision’ and better highway infrastructure as well as the housing, …

A project to update certain CCTV cameras in Chichester is being recommended by leading councillors. Chichester District Council’s Cabinet has agreed to recommend that the council invest £165,000 in upgrading a number of original city centre cameras, including reinstating two cameras in Avenue de Chartres.    The upgrade will significantly improve the quality of surveillance footage …

After years of suggestions, meetings, plans, money and arguments, going back as far as 2013, all options for an A27 bypass around Chichester have been shelved. An 11 January letter from the Highways Agency to the Leader of Chichester District Council, Tony Dignum, runs through the last two options still on the table, for a …

From The Argus CONTROVERSIAL plans to build an Ikea store and 600 homes were locked in stalemate last night. Hundreds of residents packed into a public meeting in Lancing in July – a year and a half after the plans were announced. But councillors voted to defer the decision until a later date on the …

A dementia service believed to be the first of its kind in the UK has opened to the public in Tangmere, Chichester. Sage House – which was known as the Dementia Hub – is a specialist day-care centre providing all kinds of services for dementia sufferers and their friends and relatives. The centre, which was …

Explore this village with an artistic history that survives today Tucked away in the Sussex Downs, just seven miles inland from Brighton, nestling below Ditchling Beacon, lies the historical village of Ditchling; a pretty village with a long history and many places to visit. Ditchling is a picturesque drive north from the coast via the …