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The 60’ and 70’s brought significant changes to the town with a marked increase in house building. Large tracts of farm and woodland were turned into housing estates bringing the population up into the 20,000’s. This will now rise to 24,000 as more land is being developed, especially with the addition of Bolnore Village, a residential development that was planned as a self contained community on the southwest edge of town, where a 1000 homes, together with shops, community centre, recreational and sports facilities (and hopefully its own school), are under construction. The “village” also has its own comprehensive network of cycle paths, walk ways and public transport. The speed limit throughout the roads is 20 MPH to make a safe environment for its inhabitants. The development is served by the relief road on its outer perimeter, which will be the A272 once the arc is complete. This will take the main A road away from the centre of the town giving through traffic a quicker passage from one side of the town to the other. Since work started on this development the Government decreed that Councils must take more dwellings to the acre so the number of residential units has risen.

The development of the new village will fund the first half of the relief road, the other half will be financed by yet more housing on the hospital grounds to the south of the town. Here the former St Francis Hospital has been turned into houses and flats and re-named Southdowns Park, due to the lovely views it enjoys of the South Downs.

Throughout the town more and more developments of flats are shooting up, infilling the smallest of sites. Mainly one and two bedrooms units, these affordable homes are particularly popular for the many single people and couples new to the area, who commute daily to London. However a recent Healthcheck of the town showed concerns that flats were outnumbering family homes. It is felt that Haywards Heath is essentially a family oriented town.

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