Developers are exploiting a loophole in the planning system to reduce the number of affordable homes they are building in Sussex.
Pagam and Aldwick Greenfield Action Movement protest plans to build on farmland
CPRE Sussex is making a formal objection to the ‘mathematical trickery’ behind a new government paper which argues that the majority of new house building should be concentrated in the South-East of England.
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If, by the time that you finish reading this note, you end up confused as to the significance that Government and its Planning Inspectorate dogsbody attach to adopted neighbourhood plans (NPs) when it comes to deciding planning applications that don’t coincide with the NP, then you will be in the same boat as the author: so please don’t shoot the messenger.
The current Government, and its predecessor, have laid great public store on offering local communities a greater say in the planning of their towns and villages to suit and shape their local needs. A locally crafted neighbourhood plan is the vehicle by which local communities can express the way in which their area should be developed to meet their particular needs in the years ahead.
Land scheduled for development near Eastergate
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Local councils struggling to meet government housing targets are caught in an impossible ‘catch 22’ under existing planning laws, warns CPRE Sussex.
Great House Farm © Keep Southwater Green campaign
In a recent article in the West Sussex County Times, Dr Roger Smith explains how local people's opinions now count for very little in a planning process tilted towards the developers' goals, not the community's.
