'˜Future looks bright' for Billingshurst

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Mar 2016, 06:08 BST
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The '˜future looks bright' for Billingshurst as plans to improve its village centre are set to go out for consultation.

Enhancements to the centre of the village are set to be funded from £750,000 developer contributions from a number of housing sites and up to a £2.2m proportion from a 475-home development planned east of Billingshurst.

Improving character and design, sense of arrival, choice and vitality, open spaces and public realm, and car parking in the village were identified as key aims by the Billingshurst Working Group, which was made up of representatives from the county, district and parish councils and the village’s chamber of commerce.

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A Billingshurst Village Centre Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), which sets out future priorities for the village, was approved for public consultation by Horsham District Council last Wednesday (February 24).

Gordon Lindsay (Con, Billingshurst and Shipley), cabinet member for the local economy, said: “It’s basically dealing with how we propose to spend the section 106 money that’s going to be available for Billingshurst with all the new development.”