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Moonshine Meadow, Cuckfield Road, Ansty

6011079·Mid Sussex·10 Sept 2026dismissed·DM/25/3108

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶5

“health and other local services”

Summary

A five-pitch Gypsy site on a paddock in open countryside between Ansty and Hurstpierpoint. It was a resubmission after a 2025 appeal dismissal. The council accepted it could not show a five-year supply of pitches. The appeal was dismissed anyway. The site failed HO12 on access to services because the only route was an unlit, national-speed-limit road with no footway, so it fell outside S5(1)(g) and into S5(4). A new flood-risk failure (F4/F7: no assessment of safe access along a road with a history of flooding) was also decisive, and it ruled out a temporary permission.

Why this is cited

This decision was picked up by the search on the words above, which refer to services, not to a settlement tier. generic.

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