Rother & Hastings
The changing complexion of our Planning Committee; progress on the Development Site Allocation Plan... plus a plea for volunteers.
Letter published in the Bexhill Observer: Missed chance to set new targets.
Hastings may seem to most people to be thoroughly urban, but it is blessed with countryside for almost 180 degrees around its boundary, the remainder being sea! The problem is that the surrounding countryside is under serious threat at the moment.
CPRE Sussex warns countryside on the front line of issues caused by rising temperatures
Written by Stephen HardyLetter, published in the Rye & Battle Observer, 12th October 2018
Rother Council planners are trying to respond to the pressures brought about by the Government’s new planning regime (NPPF 2018) by speeding up the process of their Development and Site Allocation Plan (DaSA).
Tree felling at Hastings holiday park: "harmful to ANOB"
Written by CPRE SussexStephen Hardy, CPRE Sussex Trustee, was among the objectors to an application to fell 71 trees at Beauport Holiday Park.
Letter to Rye and Battle Observer, from Stephen Hardy, CPRE Sussex Trustee. Published 19 Jan 2018
The Campaign to Protect Rural England is pleased to see at last the Government's commitment to improving the environment shown in the 25-year plan launched last week, but we need actions, not simply warm words to ensure the Government provides the means to ensure we use resources wisely, from plastics to land.
Rother suffers as a planning authority from a permanent malaise – that of being always behind the curve. Yes, it produced a core strategy back in 2014 with what is for the South East a relatively modest housing requirement, but according to the latest planning agendas is down to providing only a 3.1 year housing supply. I do not really want to blame the Council because it is house builders who are not building out permissions granted, but the recent reaction to this supposed crisis is for Rother planners to recommend granting any application that comes in the High Weald AONB, no matter that most of the sites up for approval were categorised by the self-same Rother officers three years ago in their SHLAA as red (i.e. not suitable for whatever reasons to be developed) sites.
Letter: Where is the government's 25-year plan for the environment?
Written by Stephen HardyLetter to: Rye and Battle Observer
From: Stephen Hardy, MBE, Trustee, CPRE Sussex
Poignantly, the BBC last week showed a picture of the cottages at Birling Gap, just down the coast, which are predicted to collapse into the sea within 25 years.
From: Bexhill Environmental Group And Rother Environmental Group
Meeting: Don’t miss this unique opportunity. All are welcome to come and seek a positive way forward.
