Creation of a new Sussex

[Mo Gosfield]

What about Mid-Sussex.? Why can't this be the ' third split ' in county status.
Haywards Heath would be the county town and deservedly so, with its upwardly mobile, affluent and successful heritage. For those in the North of the County feeling left out, create a fourth county split, North Sussex, with Horsham as the county town.
The more the merrier.

 

[halbpro]

my understanding is that although the city is administered by a unitary authority, it is still part of the county of East Sussex in non-administrative terms!

Yes, I think it's the difference between administrative and ceremonial. Ceremonial doesn't really matter that much any more to the best of my knowledge though.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

my understanding is that although the city is administered by a unitary authority, it is still part of the county of East Sussex in non-administrative terms!

That is correct. Anyone who thinks that just because Brighton is now not a part of East Sussex simply because it is a unitary authority is mistaken.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Hurstpierpoint and towns and villages to the north of it used to be in East Sussex. The boundary crossed the Albourne - Henfield road. Hurstpierpoint was in the old Cuckfield Rural District Council area of East Sussex which became Mid Sussex DC - in the county of West Sussex - in the 70s as part of a local government reorganisation during Ted Heath's time.

Hurstpierpoint at that time was in the old Lewes constituency, which had the exotically-named Tufton Beamish as its MP.

The Royal Mail no longer asks people to put the county name on envelopes so there is no reason why we can't put 'Sussex' if we wish. A nice idea. And amalgamating the administrations of the two counties wouldn't be difficult surely.

The police are already one organisation.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

There has NEVER been a single administrative county covering the whole of Sussex.

Once upon a time there was a kingdom, but that came to an end some time around the end of the eighth century.

How old were you at the time, Ed ?

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

I have been calling for the boundaries of Sussex to be redrawn for some time now.

Surrey can have Crawley & we will have Tunbridge Wells

 

[Phat Baz 68]

No no no no no We are far to posh and brilliant and things in East Sussex !!

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Not on my watch lad!

 

[Stat Brother]

No no no no no We are far to posh and brilliant and things in East Sussex !!

Fook off, you boys aren't fit to lick our boots.

 

[Stat Brother]

Not on my watch lad!

Right with you, brother.

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

What would be the benefit? I am West Sussex, and want nothing to do with the loony Brighton council and want them to have absolute no influence on my area at all.

I have to agree with you here. Although technically Brighton "Isn't apart of Sussex" In that sense. I would be one to leave ye olde kindom of Sussex If It had Brighton Council/Authority Rule. I hate the scumbags worse than Crystal Palace and Portsmouth put together.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

In spirit, Sussex has always been a place. If someone asks where I come from I always say Sussex. Apart from being a Lincolnshire YellowBelly I am also a South Saxon, not a South Saxon (West). Perhaps those against amalgamation could write new anthems called Good Old East Sussex By The Sea and Good Old West Sussex By the Sea.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Fook off, you boys aren't fit to lick our boots.

We wouldnt dirty ourselves by crossing the boarder to do it ha ha !!

 

[Stat Brother]

We wouldnt dirty ourselves by crossing the boarder to do it ha ha !!

Exactly my point.
The moment you step outside of Lesser Sussex, you'll have nobody there to tell you how wonderfully avant garde and bohemian you are, while you munch on your mong bean spicy dal.

 

[Drumstick]

Exactly my point.
The moment you step outside of Lesser Sussex, you'll have nobody there to tell you how wonderfully avant garde and bohemian you are, while you munch on your mong bean spicy dal.

You thought that out haven't you Not busy keeping up with the neigbours in your suburban hell? oooh look the new ford mondeo...

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Because we are unique, which makes Sussex even more awesome.

What, like West, South and North Yorkshire?

 

[APACHE]

Home rule for Sussex, we've got a city , a port, let's get the border points up. Oh and we've got our own anthem.

 

[Badger]

Home rule for Sussex, we've got a city , a port, let's get the border points up. Oh and we've got our own anthem.

Our football league would be like the MTL, Brighton and Crawley followed by a load of minnows. We could even pretend it's one of the top leagues in Europe.

 

[Gazwag]

I have no objections, would that make us the longest county in the country? It would make things easier - Sussex CCC would be correct, as would many other things, St John Ambulance has been calling itself County Of Sussex incorrectly for years.

 

[Kumquat]

What about Mid-Sussex.? Why can't this be the ' third split ' in county status.
Haywards Heath would be the county town and deservedly so, with its upwardly mobile, affluent and successful heritage. For those in the North of the County feeling left out, create a fourth county split, North Sussex, with Horsham as the county town.
The more the merrier.

Interesting this. I visited a Sussex Council (can't say which one) to interview them just as the recession kicked in. They were talking a lot about the Gatwick Diamond an dhow they would survive the recession because they could rely on jobs from Gatwick. They were really pushing for splitting West Sussex into North and South and leaving East Sussex. They reckoned that the south coast from adur to arun was dragging the north of the county down because of its poverty and getting all the resources.