'Flood plan housing "could be district's biggest mistake"'
Written by CPRE SussexArticle from Lancing Herald, 25 March 2016 on the Adur Council meeting which attempted to scrap plans to allocate up to 600 homes on flood plain at New Monks Farm, Lancing. Download the article below.
Thanks to everyone who came to our recent meeting about the Wealden Local Plan. Here are the notes from our discussion.
Letter: What happens when developers fail to meet District plan housing targets?
Written by Roger F SmithLetter published by the West Sussex County Council Times, 4 February 2016
The most significant story is the painfully rumbling saga of the District Council’s flailing attempts to pin down a draft of its new long term District Plan (it will run until 2031) that is fit to present to the Planning Inspectorate for public examination. We report separately below on the latest position, and on the representations that CPRE Sussex has made to the Council on the most recent changes that it has proposed to its draft plan. We remain deeply unhappy with key aspects of that draft Plan. It is too important and will be too long-lasting for it to be wrong.
It is not just the big development plans in our countryside that CPRE care passionately about: Stephen Hardy of Rother CPRE has campaigned against new individual proposals in Winchelsea Beach, a haven immediately next to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
Letter: there is an intrinsic link between the economy and the environment.
Written by CPRE SussexLetter published by the West Sussex County Times, 7 January 2016:
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There must be much more representation for biodiversity at Westminster and at every decision level below that to ensure sustainability.
