Burgess Hill Uncovered

23/01/2025

As from today (Thursday) 'Park Night' has arrived in Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath and East Grinstead. Charges are in play from 8am-8pm Monday to Saturday. Increased from 6pm cut-off.

Free parking on Sundays has gone. The chargeable hours are 9am-5pm. Cost £1.

Bank Holidays will also be chargeable from 9am-5pm.

MSDC want the extra cash, but a year on from saying that village car parks may have to charge too, the consultation hasn't even begun yet!

Let's hope this isn't an election ploy where party success at the (uncertain to take place) County Council elections is more important than the public purse.

15/01/2025

‼️Breaking News‼️
Burgess Hill Town Council To Propose A Whopping 12.3% Increase To Their Element Of The Council Tax

14/01/2025

🚨Come and watch your Town Councillors in action on Wednesday evening at the Council chambers in Church Walk at 7pm where your elected representatives will be tackling a mammoth agenda, featuring:

🔵The 'Success' of the 'Shop Local' scheme and its future.
🟣Thrilling Plans to mark 'Railway 200'
🟢A Help Point report
🟡Map Printing and associated costs!
🔵A possible new plastic sign for the Customer Services Desk
🟣Beautifying The Stone Garden
🟢Hanging Baskets
🟡The uncertain future of Burgess Hill's Christmas Lights
🔵Folders Meadow Playground Equipment Maintenance
🟣News from the council's new depot in....Bolney
🟢A Maintenance Team Report
🟡Allotment Report
🔵The Magic Money Tree

Could this end up being the longest Key Area group meeting ever? Will some councillors finally find their voices? Will there be more than three members of the public in attendance for once?

We'll find out Wednesday night for this unmissable meeting 😉

13/01/2025

Look how neat Lidl looked in the Martlets Shopping Centre.

All the canopies, lamposts and bins were painted a lovely, vibrant shade of blue.

The date on the digital file is 30th January 2006!

12/01/2025

The 2025 West Sussex County Council elections - due to be held this May - are likely to be scrapped as West Sussex County Council AND Mid Sussex District Council are both in line to be abolished fully by mid-2027. They will be replaced with something like a Sussex Super Council with an elected Mayor of Sussex.

The exact workings are yet to be decided, but WSCC, East Sussex County Council and Brighton City Council have all jointly submitted an expression of interest to be considered for the Government’s Devolution Priority Programme.

Things will move pretty fast over the next few months - with a consultation due to take place to see if the people of Sussex actually want one authority to be responsible for everything.

We all know how successful consultations are here in these parts: ''𝐷𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟? W𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜 𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦!'

𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘅?

West Sussex County Council and Mid Sussex District Council could both be gone by May 2026 with a new super sussex unitary authority replacing them, along with electing a Mayor of Sussex

11/01/2025

🍻🥂Wetherspoon have applied to extend the opening hours of The Six Gold Martlets on Church Walk, Burgess Hill by an extra hour Sunday-Thursday (to close at 12:30am) and by another half an hour on Fridays and Saturdays (to 1:30am)

⏰🍳🥞The venue would also open half an hour earlier for breakfast on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings (7am from the existing 7:30am)

🏨 Burgess Hill Town Council are very much opposed to the proposals and have sent in a representation to MSDC's licensing department.

❓What do you think? Should 'Spoons be allowed to stay open later?

The Six Gold Marltets seek to close an hour later Sunday-Thursday, but Burgess Hill Town Council are against the proposals for the town centre location.

08/01/2025

Enjoying Fairfield Recreation Ground!

06/01/2025

Will you miss Millets? Their last day of trade was on Saturday. What type of business do you think will replace them...at some point?

05/01/2025

Your choice of 24-hour gyms in Burgess Hill could be set to expand if permission is granted for a new fitness facility on the site of the former Mabel's Emporium on Victoria Way - literally a stone's throw from PureGym.

The building would receive a two-storey rear extension if approved.

Fears over parking provision and noise at night have been raised as part of the objections from locals.

Would you welcome this as a new addition to Burgess Hill?

A new 24-hour gym is loooking to move into the former 'Mabel's Emporium' in Victoria Way, Burgess Hill. Would you welcome it?

30/12/2024

Here's the top 5 most-viewed BHU videos from 2024.

The view count on a few of these videos will raise some eyebrows!

Did Gordon and the Beehive make the list? Find out here.....

Where did Mr BHU in a Kayak rank in the top 5 most watched Burgess Hill Videos of 2024?

23/11/2024

Great to see the Christmas lights this year featuring festive colours and a festive theme 😀

What do you think of them? Were you among the small number of people who actually came to Church Walk to see them lit up for the first time on Saturday evening?

27/10/2024

🚨🚨🚨The publicly available 'Mid Sussex District Council
Parking Strategy Refresh – Phase 2/3 Report
January 2020' states:

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

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Do you think Burgess Hill Town Centre has more to offer in 2024 then it did in January 2020? Are the car parks so full of an evening and Sundays that MSDC should now introduce charges?

Mid Sussex District Council are looking to charge for evenings and Sundays, despite the report from expert consultants suggesting that now isn't the right time.

Feedback for the poorly promoted second consultation needs to be emailed to 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧@𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐱.𝐠𝐨𝐯.𝐮𝐤 by 12 noon on 31 October 2024.
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07/10/2024

An information evening regarding the future plans for Park Centre Burgess Hill is taking place on Tuesday 22nd October at 7pm, held at The Burgess Hill Academy.

If you have an affinity with the building, seeking to help in getting it back up and running, or just want to know the next steps for its revival, then please do come along!

More information here....

7pm on Tuesday 22nd October @ The Burgess Hill Academy

03/10/2024

Even the Metro website has picked up on the closure of the big high-street names in Burgess Hill....

The shoe-seller, which has been a fixture of the British high street since 1980, closed 13 stores in 2023.

02/10/2024

Following the sell-out show earlier in the year, the Burgess Hill Academy PTA have organised another fundraising comedy night with Funny That Comedy which takes place on Friday 11th October.

Tickets are available here: https://tinyurl.com/mr3tcjm9

Join us for an evening of outstanding live comedy at the Burgess Hill Academy Drama Studio. 🎭 🎤 😂

Multi award-winning Stephen Grant will be MC for this superb show, featuring;

🔹 Charlie Baker

🔹 Nick Elleray

🔹 Matt Richardson

Click here for the Burgess Hill Academy Comedy Night - complete with cheap drinks, snacks and free parking!!! 😎

22/09/2024

Shoe Zone are not renewing their lease at Market Place Shopping Centre, therefore the store will be closing in the near future. Sorry to hear this for the staff.

How long do you think it'll take the agent to fill the unit (if at all!) and what would you like to see come into the centre in its place?