Digital Futures West Sussex has announced three business leaders as Digital Futures ambassadors for the county. These are; Mark Bullen, MD, GB Electronics; Luke Mead, CEO LMS Group; Barney Durrant, Director, Bluebell Digital based in East Grinstead. They will be the business voice for the Digital Futures programme which will run through 2023, impro...
An ambitious project to create a new ultra-low-carbon secondary school in Burgess Hill has taken another significant step forward with the appointment of a contractor. Following a competitive tendering process, West Sussex County Council has appointed Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd to deliver the new £57m school, with initial work set to begin on ...
Mid Sussex councillors have welcomed the news that air quality in the district has generally improved over the past five years. Councillors examined the annual status report on air quality at a meeting of Scrutiny Committee for Community, Customer Services and Service Delivery on Wednesday 1 February 2023. Mid Sussex District Council monitors air q...
Rents continue to rise due to demand significantly outweighing supply across the Mid Sussex industrial market, according to SHW's Q1 2023 South East Industrial Focus. Tim Hardwicke, SHW's Partner and Head of Agency, comments: "On the whole, 2022 saw a good level of take up across all size ranges, with lower take levels generally in locations where ...
Universal Quantum, based in Haywards Heath has been commissioned by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to build a fully scalable trapped ion quantum computer. This will open the door to the next step in quantum computing – the development of real-world applications on a scalable quantum computer. Read more here
An artisan cheesemaker, based near Haywards Heath, is celebrating an un-brie-lievable achievement after one of its cheeses was named among the top 100 in the world. Read more here: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23107859.sussex-cheese-named-among-worlds-best-awards-ceremony/
Mid Sussex District Council has adopted Net Zero targets for both the Council and the wider District to help tackle climate change and reduce global warming. At a meeting of Full Council on 2 November 2022, Councillors overwhelmingly agreed to reduce direct council-controlled carbon emissions to Net Zero by 2040 and support the wider District to re...
Mid Sussex District Council has thanked the residents taking part in a new food waste collection trial after they recycled more than 29,000 Kilograms (29 Tonnes) of food in the first four weeks. Residents in the trial areas have embraced the new collection system by placing any food waste they have into a dedicated food waste bin, which is collecte...
A combined sustainability and economic growth strategy lies at centre of one the UK's most exciting regeneration projects, creating an innovative community culture in the heart of Sussex which aims to combine quality of life with knowledge-intensive economic growth. Mid Sussex District Council's 'trail-blazing' combined Sustainable Economy Strategy...