Tonight’s Town Council meeting heard good news on the building condition of the Park Centre where fears there might be an issue relating to the results of a condition survey on the building were allayed. The detailed costs to bring it back into operational use have still to be determined but this eliminates what would otherwise have been significant costs to replace beams and missing trusses.

A formal transfer of the property from West Sussex County Council to the independent Park Centre Burgess Hill CIO is still awaited but in the meantime the Town Council is supporting the new organisation to establish itself, the aim is to bring the building back into use as a centre for youth activities, as well as a wider community resource.

The Council has also recently established a youth council with representatives from seven schools meeting last week as a way of engaging and listening to the younger residents in our town, and with the aim of including the Youth Council in local events in the coming months.