District News
Francis Maude MP urged to intervene in Billinghurst planning fiasco
Written by CPRE Sussex
2 June 2014
A news report in the West Sussex County Times reflected the increasing frustration locals in the Billingshurst district feel about their views being overruled by Horsham District Council's Development Control South committee. In the absence of an adopted planning framework, council officers recommended that councillors approve another in a series of major developments in Billingshurst on the grounds that it would be passed at Appeal by the Planning Inspectorate should they refuse it. The majority voted to approve the development at Marringdean Road.
Update from Chichester District:
Report coming soon.
For those concerned with the protection of our countryside and rural communities, the planning picture within Mid Sussex remains deeply depressing: as previously reported, the District Council’s draft Local Plan was withdrawn from examination at the request of the Planning Inspector last December by reason of the Council’s failure to meet its duty to co-operate with neighbouring authorities over housing and other matters of mutual concern.
City Plan and the Lightwoods Proposed Development at Ovingdean / Woodingdean
The Brighton & Hove group initiated contacts that have led to CPRE Sussex becoming actively engaged with the Deans Protection Group in Ovingdean and Rottingdean, who are campaigning under the banner of “Save Our Deans.” Save Our Deans is fighting proposals by Lightwoods Property for the construction of 112 houses on Meadow Vale field, a greenfield site at the junction of the villages of Woodingdean, Ovingdean and Rottingdean, bordering the South Downs National Park.
LOCAL PLAN
Horsham District Planning Framework (HDPF) Proposed Submission May 2014.
Six week consultation ends 27 June at 4.00pm:
13000 houses (650 houses pa) in the HDPF plan-period 2011-31.
