It’s interesting how speculative housing development schemes on designated Green Space come into being.
Storrington is being offered a shiny, new, all-singing medical centre – but in the wrong location. Why are we not redeveloping the Mill Stream site in the centre of the village with its extensive parking, safer access and public transport connections? A surgery at Mill Stream would also help drive visitors and their spending into the village’s shops, breathing life into the High Street.
Instead we are told to accept a surgery on the busiest, most dangerous and most polluted roundabout in the village. And to have this building, we have to accept housing all over the historic Glebe Field – adjacent to Listed properties, our churches and Storrington’s Conservation Area.
How has the future of Storrington’s healthcare provision ended up in the clutches of the Glebe landowner… the Diocese of Chichester?
The story begins – and potentially ends – with the sale of the former doctor’s surgery back in 1984… Here’s the only declaration we’ve seen on the matter (handed out quietly at the first public consultation back in May 2016). The sale came with a covenant on the use of the existing Glebe Surgery which the Diocese views as its Trump Card to getting housing where there shouldn’t be any…
