
Roger F Smith
Letter: Will councillors stand up for communities or developers?
Letter published by the West Sussex County Times 21 March 2019
Letter: Most of Sussex fails the Housing Delivery test
Letter published in the West Sussex County Times 28 February 2019: "Those who govern us have chosen to ignore this reality and are instead blaming and punishing councils and communities."
Horsham District update - 2019
Update: Parishes with "in progress" plans targeted by developers; Horsham DC's review of the HDPF up to 2036 in progress; questions over viability of house building targets and more.
Hocus pocus targets make the countryside vulnerable
Letter published by the West Sussex County Times 24 January 2019
Sir,
Our countryside made vulnerable to large-scale development by Government policies
Horsham District Council’s review of the local plan is in progress and to calculate what the new house- building target should be the Council must use the Government’s new formula-based method, which by means of hocus pocus with numbers has been rigged to achieve an-over England target of at least 300,000 new homes per year.
CPRE Sussex Response: Planning consultation
Read the full text of the CPRE Sussex response to the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: ‘Technical consultation on updates to national planning policy and guidance’
Housing target for Horsham District to be increased
Horsham’s Local Plan, the Horsham District Planning Framework (HDPF), adopted November 2015, is subject to a now-in-progress review by Horsham District Council (HDC), as required by the examining Planning Inspector in his Report to HDC, October 2015.
Letter: Affordable-homes viability-loophole
Letter published by West Sussex Gazette 15 August 2018
Letter: Neighbourhood Plans undermined by new NPPF
Letter published by West Sussex County Times 1 August 2018
Letter: Arun should examine Planning Inspector’s report closely
Letter published by West Sussex Gazette 11 July 2018
Letter: Vulnerable to imposed development if Neighbourhood Plan ‘out-of-date’
Letter published by West Sussex County Times 5 July 2018