Nature Conservation Sites

East Grinstead

Ashplats Wood
Please take a look at our East Court & Ashplats wood page for more information.

Farm Close Meadows, Farm Close
A sloping site with grassland meadows, scrub and a pond. It also features a public footpath which offers good links to the countryside.

Herons Ghyll, Herontye Drive
A small sloping site with woodland and five ponds.

Lindfield

Eastern Road Local Nature Reserve, Eastern Road
Woodland, scrub rough grassland with mature trees and a pond.

Haywards Heath

Scrase Valley Local Nature Reserve - between Lindfield and Haywards Heath
A stream, woodland and rare wet meadow.

Blunts Wood and Paiges Meadows Local Nature Reserve, Blunts Wood Road.
Deciduous woodland, meadows, ancient hedges and wetlands.

Ashenground and Bolnore Woods Local Nature Reserve - west of the railway line, Bolnore.
Pockets of woodland including Catts Wood to the west of the village. For more information please visit the Friends of Ashenground and Bolnore Woods website.

Burgess Hill

Burgess Hill has a network of conservation sites around the town known as Burgess Hill Green Circle. For more information please visit the Friends of Burgess Hill Green Circle website.

Bedelands Farm Local Nature Reserve, Maple Drive - next to the playing fields at Leylands Park.
Woodland, scrub, grassland meadows, hedges and ponds. It is a Site of Nature Conservation Importance (SNCI). Valebridge Meadow was designated a Coronation Meadow in 2013.

Green Crescent - a continuous arc to the west and south of Jane Murray Way
Linked by public footpaths and bridleways with links to wider countryside.

Walk:

From Pangdean Lane meadows in the north
Through Malthouse Lane Meadows
And down to Hammonds Ridge and Nightingale Lane meadows to the south

Along the way you’ll see mature specimen trees in meadows, newly planted woodland, hedgerows and ponds.

The Landscape Character Assessment was produced to help protect and enhance the distinctive landscape character of the District, and to manage change and inform other strategic documents

• Cover, title, contents, foreword and guide
• Part One: Introduction and background
• Part Two: The Mid Sussex landscape

Part Three: Landscape Character Areas

• Introduction
• Devil's Dyke and Clayton Downs
• Fulking to Clayton Scarp (Area 2)
• Hurstpierpoint Scarp Foot slopes (Area 3)
• Hickstead Low Weald (Area 4)
• Upper Adur Valley (Area 5)
• High Weald (Area 6)
• High Weald Plateau (Area 7)
• Worth Forest (Area 8)
• Ouse Valley (Area 9)
• High Weald Fringes (Area 10)

Part Four: Landscape Management Guidelines

• Landscape Management Guidelines - introduction
• Map of Areas
• Eastern Downs (Sheet SD6)
• Upper Adur Valley (Sheet LW9)
• Eastern Low Weald (Sheet LW10)
• Eastern Scarp Foot slopes (Sheet LW11)
• High Weald (Sheet HW1)
• High Weald Forests (Sheet HW2)
• Upper Ouse Valley (Sheet HW3)
• High Weald Fringes (Sheet HW4)

Appendices

• 1. Policy Background
• 2. Mid Sussex Local Plan (2004)
• 3. Mechanisms for Implementation
• 4. Stakeholder Workshop
• 5. Cultural Perceptions of the South Downs and High Weald
• 6. Indicative Tree Planting Guide
• 7. Background Documents

Maps

• Map 1.1. National Character Areas and Landscape Character Areas in Mid Sussex
• Map 2.1 Topography of Mid Sussex
• Map 2.2 Simplified Geology of Mid Sussex
• Map 2.3 Principal Habitats of Mid Sussex
• Map 2.4 Designed Landscapes of Mid Sussex

Figures

• Figure 2.1. Geological Section Across Mid Sussex