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There are two online sources for local weather news:
- The Pease Pottage Weather website, established in January 2011, provides trends, records, and current weather data for the village.
- The Staplefield Anorak website includes continuously updated current weather data as well as plenty of other useful information for local residents.
For weather forecasts, see the BBC website’s Crawley forecast.
January 2012: Proposed Housing Development
Redrow Homes have applied to Mid Sussex District Council for permission to build 48 houses on land adjacent to Black Swan Close in Pease Pottage. The proposed development is in addition to the seven houses being constructed on adjacent land by Hillreed Homes.
The proposed new housing estate would back onto Barn Close and the children’s playground on Horsham Road, and would extend westward as far as Cottesmore Golf Club.
Redrow applied in 2011 to build 68 houses and flats on this land. Their application was refused.
Details of the new application (reference no. 11/04085/FUL) can be found:
- At http://pa.midsussex.gov.uk/online-applications/ . Scroll down that page and enter the reference number in the search box.
- During office hours at the council building on Oaklands Road in Haywards Heath.
Anyone opposed to the revised plan will need to contact Mid Sussex District Council, either in writing or via the MSDC website. Please note:
- Objections must be received by MSDC before Saturday 10 February 2012.
- You must include the planning application reference number: 11/04085/FUL.
- Even if you registered your opposition to Redrow’s earlier application, you will need to register your opposition again to the new plan.
- Comments should be courteous and to the point.
Some grounds for objections might be:
- Traffic congestion The village already suffers from a substantial amount of traffic, especially during the morning rush hour. Traffic jams are common between 8am and 9am, making it almost impossible for residents to get in or out of the village by road. 48 extra dwellings would add noticeably to an already severe problem. If anything, measures should be put in place to reduce traffic through Pease Pottage, not increase it.
- Infrastructure Pease Pottage has more than doubled in size over the last 15 years, with the building of over 200 new houses and flats.
- Environment The new application would cover a large area of open land, and affect a substantial hedgerow.
November 2011: More Houses on Old Brighton Road
Thakeham Homes are proposing to build an unspecified number of houses and shops on land near Woodhurst hospital. There is also a proposal to build half a dozen houses on the land formerly occupied by the Grapes pub.
January 2010: Winter Wonderland
It snowed. For a few days, the traffic disappeared and villagers ventured out of their houses. Some people even started talking to each other. But things soon returned to normal. There are photographs of things covered in snow on the Gallery page.
2008: Closing Time
The Grapes shut its doors for the last time.
5 October 1837: Royal Visit
Queen Victoria passed through Pease Pottage on her way to Brighton, as reported by Henry Burstow in his Reminiscences of Horsham (1911), pp. 40–1:
We trudged on alone, through Roffey, hoping for a friendly waggoner to give us a lift, but none came along. At length we got to Peas Pottage, where we saw a large archway made of evergreens, with “VICTORIA REGINA” worked on it in various coloured dahlias; we were mightily impressed.