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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Stanley Murphy-Johns

More than 20,000 new homes approved to be built in Sussex after four-year delay

The Arun Valley in East Sussex (Alamy/PA) -

Thousands of new homes are to be built in Sussex after a four-year delay over water and wildlife concerns, the Government has said.

Building work for 21,000 new homes in parts of Horsham, Crawley and Chichester has been halted since 2021 because of concerns about the amount of water being taken from rivers and wetlands in the Arun Valley.

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