Mid Sussex · Local news you can trust
Councillors approved both plans for fields south of the A264 at Copthorne Common: up to 86 homes, voted 9-1, and a 101-unit retirement village, 10-0.
Read the full story
East Grinstead
East Grinstead Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
East Grinstead weather today: overcast, 13°C by day and 5°C overnight, with a 0% chance of rain and winds up to 7 mph.
Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Haywards Heath weather today: overcast, 14°C by day and 7°C overnight, with a 0% chance of rain and winds up to 7 mph.
Lindfield
Lindfield Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Lindfield weather today: overcast, 14°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 0% chance of rain and winds up to 7 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
Christmas
Burgess Hill Ice Rink 2026: Free Skating 28 and 29 Nov
Free ice skating returns to Burgess Hill on 28 and 29 November, skates provided and no booking. Times, where it is, and the paid rink at Ardingly's Winter Fair.
Data
Mid Sussex Claimant Count 2,075, Fastest Rise in West Sussex
2,075 people in Mid Sussex claimed unemployment-related benefits in September, up 10.1% in a year: the steepest rise of West Sussex's seven districts.
Business
Lindfield's Orla Makes the MICHELIN Guide 18 Months In
Orla Restaurant & Rooms on Lindfield High Street is in the MICHELIN Guide, 18 months after opening. Head chef Ian Brunsdon runs it with his wife Ellen.
Local Info
Mid Sussex Petrol Prices: Cheapest Unleaded and Diesel Today
Cheapest petrol in Mid Sussex today: unleaded from 156.9p and diesel from 189.9p a litre, across 3 forecourts within 8 miles. Updated every morning from the...
Weather
Mid Sussex Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Mid Sussex weather today: overcast, 14°C by day and 6°C overnight, with a 0% chance of rain and winds up to 7 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
Planning
Ansty 33 Homes Approved 12-0, but the Footway Is a Catch
33 homes off Marwick Close, Ansty, approved 12-0. If the A272 footway land is not public highway, the plan goes back to committee on 3 December.
Local Info
Mid Sussex Roadworks This Week: Car Run and Bolney Slips
Car Run shuts northbound roads in Cuckfield and on Clayton Hill on Sunday 1 November; A23 Bolney slips shut 2 and 3 November nights; College Lane shut to 6 Nov.
Haywards Heath
Beech Hurst Gardens Wins Gold and Best Park at In Bloom
Beech Hurst Gardens in Haywards Heath won Gold and its park category at South and South East in Bloom 2026, and the district's volunteer rangers won two more.
Haywards Heath
Clair Hall: Cabinet Approves £1.5m, Wates Named Developer
Cabinet backed Wates Residential for Clair Hall and up to £1.5m of council reserves for a four-screen Digital Picture House venue and 39 homes. Planning comes next.
Mid Sussex is three towns and a lot of countryside between the Downs and the Surrey border. Haywards Heath grew up around the railway, Burgess Hill grew faster and more recently, and East Grinstead sits away to the north east with an older high street. Around them are Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint, Lindfield, Cuckfield, Ardingly and the villages of the Weald.
Mid Sussex News covers all of it from the public record. Mid Sussex District Council decides planning, bins, car parks and licensing; West Sussex County Council runs the roads and the schools; and inside the South Downs National Park boundary the park authority is the planning authority instead. We name which of them made a decision, every time, and link to the record.
Every fact is linked to the document it came from.