Horsham District CPRE submitted a strong response to Horsham District Council's 'Horsham District Planning Framework Preferred Strategy Putting the Economy First' (August 2013) which was open to public consultation between 16 August and 11 October 2013.

17 December 2013

The Government-appointed Airports Commission has included Gatwick Airport in its shortlist of three options for runway expansion.

Reacting to the announcement, Georgia Wrighton, Director of Campaign to Protect Rural England (Sussex) said:

“A second runway at Gatwick, together with sprawling development and car parks anticipated on a massive scale, would concrete over cherished open countryside. A heady cocktail of increased flights, HGV traffic and cars would erode the tranquillity of rural communities, and the health and quality of life of people living under its shadow.

17 December 2013

Gatwick included in short-list

Joint media release by CPRE Sussec and Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign (GACC)

This is no surprise. For the past year GACC has assumed that Gatwick would be included in the short-list of potential sites for a new runway.

Brendon Sewill, chairman of GACC, said: ‘Now the battle is for real. The battle lines are drawn.’

Local campaigners, led by Campaign to Protect Rural England (Sussex) Trustee, Anne Reynolds, were successful in their bid to halt the controversial application to build a 375 pupil boarding school which was turned down at last Thursday’s South Downs National Park Authority planning committee meeting.

See our media release.

13 December 2013

Land at Shoreham Airport earmarked for development by Adur Council flooded last week as photographs taken by a CPRE member on 6 December shows. The Adur District Plan identifies 15,000 sq m of land north east of the airport for potential business development. 

4 December 2013

Hansard have published yesterday's debate in Westminster Hall on Mayfields Newtown, featuring local MPs Nicholas Soames and Nick Herbert.

Read it here.

4 December 2013

In an adjournment debate yesterday Westminster Hall today Nicholas Soames MP appealed to the Secretary of State for Planning to ensure that unsupported plans like those put forward by Mayfield Market Towns in Sussex should not be allowed. He said that “Even the most zealous supporter of the scheme could not call it sustainable.” He called the developers' plans “Grotesque and wholly unwanted".

4 December 2013

Countryside campaigners are united in fury at the news that the Mid Sussex District Plan has been rejected on a technicality- leaving the door open to speculative property developers who are determined to build on green field sites.

4 December 2013

CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND (SUSSEX) and LAMBS: MEDIA RELEASE 

ANOTHER ‘NAIL IN THE COFFIN’ FOR LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Countryside campaigners are united in fury at the news that the Mid Sussex District Plan has been rejected on a technicality- leaving the door open to speculative property developers who are determined to build on green field sites.

CPRE Sussex issued a media release on Monday 25 November urging Adur Council to rethink its proposals for major development on sensitive sites in the area, which it says will damage precious countryside and increase pressure on areas prone to flooding.

David Johnson, Chair of CPRE Sussex, said “The Adur Local Plan needs a significant rethink and we hope that the District Council will dig deep to find brownfield land and unlock sites held onto by developers to demonstrate that building on greenfield land in this way is inappropriate and unnecessary. We urge the Council to present a response to ‘top down’ government pressure on development, which protects the special character of Adur and ensures sustainable development for many years to come.” 

Read the full media release.