Watchdog for intrusive local development
Albourne and Sayers Common
Welcome to WILD for Albourne and Sayers Common, a membership organisation.
We will keep you informed and suggest actions to protect our local area.
The hearings for the MSDC district plan examination started on 24th February 2026. Find out more here.
OVER 2,300 HOUSES
ON GREEN FIELDS DWARFING ALBOURNE AND SAYERS COMMON VILLAGES!!
Mid Sussex are developing their district plan, which will say what housing should be built where up to the year 2039. This will affect all of us, not only up to 2039, but far beyond. One scheme, called Sayers Village, will build over 2,000 houses on agricultural land between Sayers Common and Albourne, merging the two villages and wrecking the local environment. Due to delays in the plan, schemes are currently being brought forward by developers around Sayers Common village (approx. 400 houses), which threaten to destroy it’s centre leaving residents to deal with the consequences.
Proposed Developments are shown in light blue.
If all schemes go ahead it will result in a combined population more than 3.5 times that of Sayers Common and Albourne at 900 and 700 respectively, (2021 census). The new population would amount to approx 7,400 people (including existing village populations)!
More detail here
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