List of top Haywards Heath road improvement priorities revealed

By The Newsroom
Published 31st Dec 2015, 06:58 BST
Traffic passing the Muster Green Gyratory in Haywards HeathTraffic passing the Muster Green Gyratory in Haywards Heath
Traffic passing the Muster Green Gyratory in Haywards Heath

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A list of top priorities for road improvements in Haywards Heath has been published by West Sussex County Council.

Public realm upgrades to both South Road and the Muster Green Gyratory, an east-west cycle route through Clair Park, new bus shelters and real-time passenger information screens, and improvements to the Commercial Square roundabout have been ranked as ‘level one priority schemes’.

They are all included in the Haywards Heath Town Centre Transport Study, which was carried out after the Haywards Heath Relief Road opened in 2014, allowing traffic to be diverted away from the heart of the town.

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The study aimed to develop proposals that would make the town centre more attractive and vibrant.

All schemes are at the feasibility stage and no preferred options have been identified by the county council, and for any of them to go forward they would need to be included in WSCC’s capital programme.

The priorities were ranked by the Haywards Heath Town Centre Transport Study Working Group, which included elected representatives from Mid Sussex District Council, Haywards Heath Town Council, and the county council after consultation with key stakeholders.

WSCC’s Central Mid Sussex County Local Committee endorsed the priorities at a meeting on Tuesday December 15, and councillors requested that they were taken into account when future investment decisions were made by the county council.