Update - 3 November

Hello,

Thank you so much for your continued engagement with the plans for the future of the Clair Hall site.

We all know that the current building requires significant investment to provide a fit-for-purpose cultural facility. Our very well attended engagement sessions gave us lots of feedback on the proposals we shared – we will be updating the engagement hub with videos and information from these shortly.

As agreed by the Cabinet we are also committed to considering community approaches. We are therefore asking for groups with proposals to submit them, including all background financial and technical information, by the 13th November 2023.

The future of the Clair Hall site is really important to our community, and there is a potential opportunity to deliver something significant for generations to come. We are therefore committed to taking the time to explore every option carefully, including those from community groups.

We need to ensure any proposal that we progress is financially and legally sound, operationally viable, and delivers against the desired outcomes for the long-term future of the Clair Hall site. However we recognise that a community group may not have the resources and expertise to put together a bid which details all this information. We will therefore be establishing an independent technical panel that will review the proposals and invite community groups to meet with them, for a roundtable discussion, to further explore their proposals.

This discussion between independent experts and community groups will be carried out with the newly formed, politically balanced, Executive Steering Group in attendance. The bids, the outcome of the technical panel, and the recommendations of the Executive Steering Group will then be published openly and presented to the Cabinet.

if you have any questions please do share them through the engagement hub Proposals should be submitted to louise.duffield@midsussex.gov.uk

We will continue to share further updates through the engagement hub as this work progresses.

Thank you for your continued engagement.

Best

Louise

Director of Resources and Organisational Development

Mid Sussex District Council