Brighton & Hove
Brighton & Hove District Group Up-date September 2019
Written by CPRE Sussex
Find out about the hard work and commitment of our volunteers in Brighton & Hove ...
Plant Your Postcode is an exciting initiative to increase the number of trees on streets and in parks throughout towns and cities across Sussex. Initially we are focussing on the Brighton & Hove area but hope to roll out the project more widely in time.
CPRE Brighton is focusing on 3 areas of work;
The Brighton & Hove Local CPRE Group was reformed in the autumn of 2016, having been dormant for few years. Since then four meetings have been held in the Old Ship Hotel on Brighton seafront.
Councillors reject sale of Plumpton Hill and Poynings Field
Written by CPRE SussexCity Councillors on BHCC’s Policy, Resources & Growth Committee rejected a senior officers’ recommendation to resume the sale of Plumpton Hill and Poynings Field at their meeting yesterday, 19th January.
A GreenSpaces demonstration took place on Tuesday outside Hove Town Hall directed at the Brighton & Hove City Council's Environment, Transport and Sustainability Committee. Questions were put to the committee from groups involved in the recently formed Save Our Green Spaces SOGS and in the new year the council will prioritise what it funds based on it's recent questionnaire the 'Big Conversation' i.e. it will make cuts to those areas deemed less popular. Pressure will continue in this direction. The next committee meeting is on 17th Jan (4pm, Hove Town Hall).
CPRE Sussex requests dialogue over sale of Downland.
Written by CPRE SussexThe Chairs of CPRE Sussex and the South Downs Society have written to Council Leader Warren Morgan requesting a dialogue about land sales.
Freedom of Information request reveals Brighton Council's downland sales
Written by CPRE Sussex
Under a Freedom of Information information request made by Dave Bangs, Brighton and Hove City Council have revealed information about recent sales of downland land.
The areas marked in purple are the areas sold for a total of £378,100.
Sussex Street Tree Shortlisted for National Tree of the Year
Written by CPRE Sussex
An Elm tree in Brighton’s Seven Dials has been shortlisted for the Woodland Trust’s ‘Tree of the Year’.
An 85-home development on greenfield land between Ovingdean, Rottingdean and Woodingdean has been dismissed at appeal.
The application to build 85 homes at Meadow Vale was rejected by Brighton and Hove City Council’s planning committee last year, but the developers, Lightwood Strategic, appealed the decision.
