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Mid Sussex is a local government district in West Sussex, England.The largest town is Haywards Heath, where the council is based.The district also contains the towns of Burgess Hill and East Grinstead plus surrounding rural areas, including many villages.
Following significant population growth, largely associated with the opening of the London and Brighton Railway, a local board was established in Haywards Heath in 1872. [1] After the local board was succeeded by Haywards Heath Urban District Council in 1894, [2] the new council decided to commission dedicated council offices. The site it ...
Haywards Heath (/ ˈ h eɪ w ə r d z ˈ h iː θ / ⓘ HAY-wərdz HEETH) is a town in West Sussex, England, 36 miles (58 km) south of London, 14 miles (23 km) north of Brighton, 13 miles (21 km) south of Gatwick Airport and 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the county town, Chichester.
The RH postcode area, also known as the Redhill postcode area, [2] is a group of twenty postcode districts in South East England, within seventeen post towns.These cover east Surrey (including Redhill, Reigate, Betchworth, Dorking, Lingfield, Horley, Oxted and Godstone) and northeastern West Sussex (including Crawley, Gatwick, Haywards Heath, Billingshurst, East Grinstead, Burgess Hill ...
The Greater Brighton City Region is an area in the south of England centred on Brighton, incorporating seven local government districts in East Sussex and West Sussex.The Greater Brighton Economic Board was created in April 2014 to oversee a 6-year programme of development and investment within the area, [1] which as of as of 2021 has about one million people.
Haywards Heath Town Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Sujan Wickremaratchi 951 35.9 −6.3 UKIP: Howard Burrell 614 23.2 N/A Liberal Democrats: Richard Bates 589 22.2 −23.8 Labour: Greg Mountain 495 18.7 +13.5 Majority 337 12.7 Turnout: 2,649 32.6 −7.9 Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats: Swing
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine West Sussex with East Sussex as a sub-region of the South East Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named East Grinstead and Uckfield.
The constituency is centred around the towns of Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill and takes in the southern half of the local government district of the same name.Located on the West Sussex side of the border with East Sussex, the constituency is well served by transport links, with rail connections to Brighton, Gatwick Airport, London and the Sussex coast, and the M23/A23 running through the ...