Most (83%) of Rother is covered by the High Weald AONB, so it is only on the edges that we have been affected by solar farm applications. One was granted with devastating effects. Luckily the Planning Committee saw the sense to refuse the neighbouring application in Catsfield, and we are now faced with the third application on this second site, as well as an appeal. See attachment below.


High Weald site pictured above before solar installation

July 2015 was to have been the opening date for the scar that is the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road. Clearly the road is long way off completion, and East Sussex have now clammed up in silence over when they think it might eventually be open.

One possibility to watch though would appear to be a shady group called the A21 Reference Group, whose aim is to dual the A21 from Pembury to Hastings. The two MPs, both cabinet members in the new Government who are active in this Group, need to be watched very carefully indeed.