William Shaw
Nick Boles: wrong on housing, wrong on the countryside
30 November 2012
Planning Minister Nick Boles’s call to increase the urbanised area of England is provocative and unnecessary, and casts a shadow over at least 25% of our undisturbed countryside, say countryside campaigners CPRE.
Respond to the CPRE's 2012 Annual Lecture by Secretary of State Patrick McLoughlin
On 13 November 2012, the CPRE's 2012 Annual Lecture, delivered by Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin explored how the Government's transport policies can balance economic and social needs with protecting our countryside.
"Local decisions are being taken away": CPRE Sussex on BBC
15 November 2012
"We're concerned that if decisions are taken away from the local level then developers’ interests come first," said CPRE Sussex Director Georgia Wrighton on the BBC's Sunday Politics South East, commenting on the Government's Growth and Infrastructure Bill which back tracks on commitments to localism.
Unnecessary road schemes costing £30 billion will ruin precious countryside
3 November 2012
Countryside campaigners, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), believe the priority for a new roads programme will devastate our precious countryside. New roads, including Sussex's controversial Bexhill-Hastings Link Road, are being promoted on the ill-considered leap of faith that road building can deliver economic growth and regeneration.
CPRE president Sir Andrew Motion said:
“New roads will ruin our precious landscape and produce even more misery-making bottlenecks and tailbacks. Other solutions are infinitely preferable - solutions that do not compromise unique and beautiful countryside.”
Gatwick U-turn threatens Sussex
17 October 2012
Gatwick has thrown its name into hat as part of the push to increase London's airport capacity. With Heathrow ruled out and plans for a third airport in the Thames Estuary proving controversial, Gatwick has declared that it is to immediately start drawing up detailed plans for a second runaway.
Bexhill - Hastings link protest: major turnout
17 October 2012
CPRE members were amongst a large crowd vociferously protesting at a Sussex County Council meeting in Lewes yesterday about the planned £93.8m link road between Bexhill and Hastings.
How many houses do we really need in Sussex?
CPRE Sussex Trustee Chris Lewis considers the facts behind the arguments around the need for new housing in our district.
Statistics and forecasts of the numbers of people and of households in Sussex have changed substantially during 2012. This is a consequence of the way such figures are produced. It means that all concerned with future planning of housing needs, including local authorities and CPRE Sussex need to keep their eyes open and redo all their calculations.
New Neigbourhood Planning Workshop
Thursday 1st November 2012
8:30am-5.00pm
Pulborough Village Hall
Swan View, Lower Street, Pulborough West Sussex RH20 2BF
Our second FREE one-day event hosted by CPRE Sussex is designed to help Parishes in Sussex get started with their Neighbourhood Plans. The workshop will provide the necessary information and support to allow communities to start work on their Neighbourhood Plans with confidence.
Bexhill - Hastings link protest: 16 October
25 September 2012
The Bexhill - Hastings Link Road will destroy countryside classified as a High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Fracking in Sussex?
17 September 2012
Members of CPRE Sussex recently attended a meeting to explore the impacts of Fracking, hosted by the Wiggonholt Association in Pulborough West Sussex.
We are concerned about the potential risk of major environmental harm to the Sussex countryside in particular by water contamination, earth tremors, HGV traffic generation and the industrialisation of the area in the event of large scale drilling, and that these could outweigh any potential benefits from energy generation or the creation of jobs.
