Mid Sussex

From 23 March 2021 to 31 May 2021, we are accepting opinions and comments (submissions) from the public on where you believe ward  boundaries should be in Mid Sussex District Council.

The Commission is minded to recommend that Mid Sussex District Council should have 48 councillors in the future. This is 6 fewer than the current number of councillors.

The Commission now needs information from people and groups across Mid Sussex to help it to produce new ward boundaries to accommodate 48 councillors.

For more information, see our:

• News release 
• Letter to the Chief Executive of Mid Sussex District Council
• Electoral Figures*
• Promotional posters [1] [2]
• Mid Sussex polling district map (Please note, polling district mapping data has been supplied by Mid Sussex District Council and may contain boundary errors.)

To view an interactive map of the existing warding boundaries, visit our consultation area. You can search by area or postcode, and have your say. A non-interactive image of the current ward boundaries is also available.

You can make a submission to the Mid Sussex electoral review:

1. through our consultation area, 
2. by e-mailing [email protected], or
3. writing to the following address:

The Review Officer (Mid Sussex)

LGBCE

PO Box 133

Blyth

NE24 9FE

Information on how reviews work is available on our How Reviews Work Page.

For a quick guide on how to propose a pattern of wards click here.

You may also wish to read our document Electoral Reviews: Technical Guidance, which contains guidance on the review process and information on the legislation reviews are carried out under.

*Revised current electoral figures. Forecast figures remain unchanged. 

As part of the initial stages of the review, we consulted with Mid Sussex District Council on the most appropriate number of councillors to be elected to the council in future.

We received two submissions on council size:

• Mid Sussex District Council
• Green and Independent Burgess Hill Group

The Commission is minded to recommend that 48 councillors should serve Mid Sussex District Council in the future. This is six fewer than the current number of councillors.

An electoral review of Mid Sussex was started by the Local Government Commission for England (LGCE) on 10 July 2001, following the transfer of the LGCE's functions to The Electoral Commission on 1 April 2002, the review was completed by The Boundary Committee for England (BCFE).

The Order implementing The Electoral Commission's decision on the final recommendations of this review has been made and can be viewed on Her Majesty's Stationery Office's website. The Implementation Team section of the Commission's website explains how the Commission's decisions on The Boundary Committee for England's final recommendations are made into Orders. The current boundaries of the electoral wards and divisions can be viewed on Ordnance Survey's election maps website. Parish warding is not shown on the election maps website. It can be seen on the mapping from the Committee's final recommendations below; any modifications are listed in the Explanatory Note at the back of the Order.

Final report (PDF) was published 09 July 2002

Map 1 Existing wards in Mid Sussex; (PDF)

Map 2 The Committee's final recommendations for Mid Sussex; (PDF)

Map A1 Illustrates, in outline form, the proposed ward boundaries within the district and indicates the areas that are shown in more detail on Maps A2, A3 and the large map at the back of this report; (PDF)

Map A2 Illustrates the proposed parish warding of Slaugham Parish; (PDF)

Map A3 Illustrates the proposed parish warding of Cuckfield Rural Parish; (PDF)

Large map (6.9 Mb) illustrates the proposed warding arrangements for Burgess Hill, East Grinstead and Haywards Heath & Lindfield; (PDF)

Draft report (PDF) was published 26 February 2002

Map 1 Existing wards in Mid Sussex; (PDF)

Map 2 The Commission's draft recommendations for Mid Sussex; (PDF)

Map A1 Illustrates, the proposed ward boundaries within the district and indicates the areas that are shown in more detail on Maps A2, A3 and the large map; (PDF)

Map A2 Illustrates the proposed parish warding of Slaugham Parish; (PDF)

Map A3 Illustrates the proposed parish warding of Cuckfield Rural Parish; (PDF)

Large map (6.9 Mb) illustrating the existing and proposed warding arrangements for Burgess Hill, East Grinstead and Haywards Heath & Lindfield. This may take some time to download; (PDF)