Gatwick: Stand up for your countryside before it’s too late!
Written by CPRE Sussex
You have until January 10 to object to proposals to expand Gatwick Airport from one to potentially three runways.
Volunteers from CPRE Sussex worked round the clock to prepare a response to the Wealden Local Plan.
Gatwick expansion: campaigners declare a Sussex "state of emergency"
Written by CPRE Sussex
CPRE Sussex has taken the unprecedented step of declaring a “Countryside State of Emergency” in response to Gatwick Airport’s new expansion ‘Master Plan’, published last week (Oct 18).
CPRE Sussex warns countryside on the front line of issues caused by rising temperatures
Written by Stephen HardyLetter, published in the Rye & Battle Observer, 12th October 2018
Council miscalculation could lead to a developer free for all, warns CPRE Sussex
Written by CPRE Sussex
CPRE Sussex is urging Lewes District Council to urgently update its housing figures after discovering that the council could lose control of its Local Plan due a ‘mis-assessed’ shortfall of just 6 houses.
CPRE Sussex has submitted an extensive response to the Wealden Local Plan.
Act now to ensure proper scrutiny of proposed huge IKEA at Lancing
Written by CPRE Sussex
Are you concerned about the traffic impacts of the proposed IKEA on the A27 between Shoreham and Lancing? Are you concerned about the loss of the Sussex Pad and a deterioration of access to the National Park for walkers, cyclists and equestrians? Are you worried about the impact on wildlife, heritage and the National Park? Do you think the issue of flood risk and the impact on existing properties has been adequately examined?
Last night (Oct 3 2018) in a controversial decision, Adur Council decoded by five votes to three to approve the New Monks Farm development. CPRE Sussex are calling on members of the public to urgently write to James Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to review the decision by calling it in.
In May, Highways England, the Government’s road building company, announced its preferred route for the A27 Arundel Bypass. All three options included in the public consultation were highly damaging but the one it chose was perhaps the worst. (No option avoided harming the National Park or ancient woodland or gave people a choice to reduce car use)
