£1bn+ Burgess Hill Strategic Growth Programme, delivering 5,000 homes and 15,000 jobs as well as major infrastructure improvements including:
The Burgess Hill Brookleigh (formerly Northern Arc) flagship Homes England development, delivering 3,500 new homes, and 25,000m2 of employment space, alongside three neighbourhood centres, three new schools and 800,000m2 of open space.
Panattoni Park (formerly The Hub) employment space providing 50,000m2 of employment space, much of which is available for high value technology-led businesses.
A ‘next generation’ 130,000 sq m Science and Technology Park, providing 100,000m2 of employment space generating 2,500 new jobs.
Strategically located on the A23/M23 road corridor, the Park will develop business infrastructure, invest in sustainable growth and create skills for the future, pioneering innovation in high growth, and knowledge-based businesses.
The Park will benefit from traffic free walking and cycling links to the town’s main employment, retail and leisure areas, public transport hubs and nearby strategic residential development, and will inherit a sense of community, and promote knowledge sharing, enterprise and innovation.
The Park will benefit from traffic free walking and cycling links to the town’s main employment, retail and leisure areas, public transport hubs and nearby strategic residential development, and will inherit a sense of community, and promote knowledge sharing, enterprise and innovation.
£65m redevelopment of the Martlets Shopping Centre in Burgess Hill, which will provide 8,500m2 of retail space, leisure uses, a hotel, and more than 170 new homes.
An open access fibre ring, providing world leading gigabit connectivity and dark fibre for tech clusters.
Delivery of major supporting infrastructure delivery:
- £23m to widen and improve the A2300 corridor between Burgess Hill and the A23/M23 (due for completion early 2022)
- £22.8m to support new sustainable transport infrastructure (over 10km of improvements to date), and
- £10.5m to provide infrastructure to unlock 6.5ha of development land via the delivery of improvements to Goddards Green Wastewater Treatment Works.