The Brighton & Hove Local CPRE Group was reformed in the autumn of 2016, having been dormant for few years. Since then four meetings have been held in the Old Ship Hotel on Brighton seafront.
Numbers’ hocus-pocus has huge ramifications for Horsham District.
Written by Roger F SmithApproval 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.
CPRE Sussex responds to the South Downs Local Plan Pre-submission Consultation
Written by CPRE Sussex
CPRE Sussex has submitted comments as part of the South Downs Local Plan Pre-submission Consultation.
The principal focus of our work in Mid Sussex has continued to relate to the new draft District Plan, the details of which we reported in our July update and by letter to all CPRE members living in Mid Sussex. It is a draft Plan which intends to require new homes to be built at a rate of 876 dwellings p.a., a rate which the District has never consistently achieved before, and it is set to rise still further (to 1,090 dpa) from 2024. The challenge of finding sustainable locations for this massive hike in new building without ruining the prized rural character of Mid Sussex is going to be a formidable one. It will put huge pressure on the District Council (MSDC) to give proper weight to the environmental and countryside protections that planning rules purport to offer when assessing site allocations and planning applications. The role of CPRE has never been more important.
Chichester District has seen a number of issues relating to housing and infrastructure over the past year.
CPRE Sussex attended and spoke at the Examination in Public (EiP) of the new Arun Local Plan in September 2017. We expressed concerns about the lack of consultation, the level of housing proposed and the impact this would have on the local environment and the lack of a coherent strategy for ensuring that infrastructure is put in place at the right time to accommodate this development.
