
Roger F Smith
Letter: Government's desire to please developers
Letter published by the West Sussex Gazette, 23 May 2018
Letter: Crass threat to Neighbourhood Plans
Letter published by the West Sussex County Times, 19 April 2018
Sir,
Threat to Neighbourhood Plans: inequitable and crass
Letter: Mid Sussex set up to fail
Letter published by West Sussex Gazette 11 April 2018
Sir,
Mid Sussex set-up-to-fail
Letter: Intimidation of Councils and communities by Government
Letter published in West Sussex County Times 15 March 2018
Letter: HDC and housing associations are struggling to find enough affordable homes for low-income households
Letter published by the West Sussex County Times 8 February 2018
Sir,
Horsham District Council and housing associations in Horsham are struggling to find enough affordable homes for low-income households
Letter: Environment Plan doesn’t correlate with planning policy reality
Letter published by the West Sussex Gazette, 17 January 2018
Sir,
Environment Plan doesn’t correlate with planning policy reality
Dr Roger Smith meets DEFRA Minister, Lord Gardiner
The photograph above was taken during the DEFRA Minister, Lord Gardiner's visit to West Sussex, 1 December. It shows centuries-old oak, estimated 1000+years, (right of centre), one of several venerable trees that have survived to present day within Cowdray Park, near to Benbow Pond, Midhurst. This was the afternoon phase of a day-long event to support National Tree Week, hosted and facilitated by the South Downs National Park Authority, the Tree Council, and the Cowdray Estate.The theme of this phase, which involved myself, was ‘healthy trees, healthy landscape’.
Letter: Close loophole that is enbling developers to evade affordable-homes obligation
Letter published by West Sussex County Times, 7 December 2017
Numbers’ hocus-pocus has huge ramifications for Horsham District.
Approval in 2015 of the Horsham District’s local plan, the ‘HDPF’, by the examining Planning Inspector, was conditional on the Council’s acceptance of his imposed interim-housing target of 800 houses per year, to be reviewed by Horsham District Council (HDC) by November 2018.
Letter: the hocus pocus of housing target maths
Letter published by the West Sussex County Times 2 November 2017