Sussex Review: Spring/Summer 2014
The Sussex Countryside Charter; Fracking at Fernhurst; What 'localism' really looks like.
The CPRE Review is sent out as a magazine to members of CPRE Sussex. Download a free PDF copy here.
CPRE Sussex's response to the Gatwick Runway Consultation
Written by Justin French-Brooks23 May 2014
Below is is CPRE Sussex's response to the Gatwick Runway consultations, discussed earlier.
CPRE Sussex's response to the Gatwick Runway Consultation
Written by Justin French-Brooks23 May 2014
Below is is CPRE Sussex's response to the Gatwick Runway consultations, discussed earlier.
Your local plan: links
Need to see the state of your local plan? Or to see the bigger picture emerging across Sussex as local authorities put their plans in place?
Local planning authorities must prepare a local plan which sets planning policies in a local authority area. These are very important when deciding planning applications. The government also requires local planning authorities to publish Annual Monitoring Reports (AMRs). As they're published, this page will keep you up to date with Local Plans across Sussex.
Need to see the state of your local plan? Or to see the bigger picture emerging across Sussex as local authorities put their plans in place?
Local planning authorities must prepare a local plan which sets planning policies in a local authority area. These are very important when deciding planning applications. The government also requires local planning authorities to publish Annual Monitoring Reports (AMRs). As they're published, this page will keep you up to date with Local Plans across Sussex.
16 May 2014
The following letter was published in the Mid Sussex Times in response to claims made by Mayfield Market Towns Ltd:
In last week’s edition you publish a report that a new 10,000 house town near Henfield and Wineham that is being promoted by developers, Mayfield Market Towns Ltd, would destroy the habitat of an important barn owl population.
The would-be developers claim that the real issue is whether their new town there would provide a better solution to delivering much needed new housing for local people. This claim perpetuates two myths - firstly, that there is an accepted local need for a new town on the southern borders of Horsham and Mid Sussex, and secondly that its proposed location is suitable and sustainable.
Neither is true. Both Horsham and Mid Sussex District Councils are in advanced stages of developing long term plans for their Districts: neither of their plans calls for any new market town to meet their Districts’ housing needs. As to location, it is difficult to envisage somewhere less suited to a mega-development than the lovely open countryside around Wineham with no significant local unemployment, with no road, rail or other infrastructure, and on low lying fields prone to flooding from the Adur. Not to mention the barn owls, nightingales and other wonderful wildlife.
We challenge Mayfield to publish the ecological and flood reports that it claims to have commissioned so that we can all judge for ourselves.
Michael Brown
Trustee, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Sussex Branch
16 May 2014
The following letter was published in the Mid Sussex Times in response to claims made by Mayfield Market Towns Ltd:
In last week’s edition you publish a report that a new 10,000 house town near Henfield and Wineham that is being promoted by developers, Mayfield Market Towns Ltd, would destroy the habitat of an important barn owl population.
The would-be developers claim that the real issue is whether their new town there would provide a better solution to delivering much needed new housing for local people. This claim perpetuates two myths - firstly, that there is an accepted local need for a new town on the southern borders of Horsham and Mid Sussex, and secondly that its proposed location is suitable and sustainable.
Neither is true. Both Horsham and Mid Sussex District Councils are in advanced stages of developing long term plans for their Districts: neither of their plans calls for any new market town to meet their Districts’ housing needs. As to location, it is difficult to envisage somewhere less suited to a mega-development than the lovely open countryside around Wineham with no significant local unemployment, with no road, rail or other infrastructure, and on low lying fields prone to flooding from the Adur. Not to mention the barn owls, nightingales and other wonderful wildlife.
We challenge Mayfield to publish the ecological and flood reports that it claims to have commissioned so that we can all judge for ourselves.
Michael Brown
Trustee, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Sussex Branch
Policy Guidance: Points to address in responding to planning applications for exploratory drilling for gas and oil in Sussex
Written by William ShawThe document below was adopted in April 2015 by the Board of Trustees of CPRE Sussex as its Branch policy on shale gas exploration within the County (covering both exploration that uses fracking techniques and drilling that does not);. Our Branch policy builds on National office policy on fracking, and is intended primarily to guide those responding to planning applications for exploration drilling and flow evaluation permission.
[Page updated Sept 2015]
Policy Guidance: Points to address in responding to planning applications for exploratory drilling for gas and oil in Sussex
The document below was adopted in April 2015 by the Board of Trustees of CPRE Sussex as its Branch policy on shale gas exploration within the County (covering both exploration that uses fracking techniques and drilling that does not);. Our Branch policy builds on National office policy on fracking, and is intended primarily to guide those responding to planning applications for exploration drilling and flow evaluation permission.
