Alarm bells should ring about the latest planning appeal decision made by the Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government who has allowed a proposed 40 posh home development to proceed at Birchin Fields in the fast diminishing green gap between Haywards Heath and Lindfield.
Mid Sussex CPRE Shocked At SoS Decision In Relation To Sunte House
Written by Michael Brown
Alarm bells should ring about the latest planning appeal decision made by the Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government who has allowed a proposed 40 posh home development to proceed at Birchin Fields in the fast diminishing green gap between Haywards Heath and Lindfield.
"A decision to expand Gatwick is not a choice between protecting the environment or growing the economy. It means rejecting both. And in doing so it would betray local residents, future generations and businesses across the whole of the UK."
Download SCATE's latest release on the A27 Arundel bypass plans.
Download SCATE's latest release on the A27 Arundel bypass plans.
Mid Sussex planning issues update as at end July 2016
Written by Michael BrownThere has been no public progress on finalising MSDC’s District Plan to the point where it can be submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for public examination. Submission was originally due in September 2015, but has been repeatedly delayed with no public explanation, and with no minuted discussion at Council scrutiny or cabinet level. The officer responsible for the delivery of the Plan left the Council in May. All deeply disturbing and wholly unsatisfactory.
The District Council has again deferred submitting its draft District Plan to the Planning Inspectorate for public examination. Late substantive amendments to its proposals significantly to increase the District’s housing target and to allocate for a 600 home development a site within the High Weald AONB near to Pease Pottage – a site that the Council itself had described last summer as “very unsuitable” for housing – have proved to be very controversial. We await the submission version of the draft Plan with mixed interest and trepidation. Meanwhile, MSDC’s Head of Economic and Planning has announced that she is leaving.
Crouchland Biogas: is this sustainable development?
Written by CPRE Sussex
CPRE Sussex is supporting 'Protect Our Rural Environment' (PORE) and voicing concern about the Crouchland Biogas plant in Plaistow, West Sussex.
On Sunday 24 July CPRE Sussex joined the festivities at the Binsted strawberry fair. As well as talking to the local community about threats to the countryside, we showed our support for the Arundel Bypass Neighbourhood Committee (ABNC) in opposing damaging options for the Arundel bypass.
