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| The Government's Air Transport White Paper of 2003 backed a huge growth in air travel in the coming decades,including Gatwick. We are calling for the Government to rethink the policies in the White Paper to prevent loss of large tracts of our countryside. |
>Read about our concerns for Gatwick
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> Intrusion Map Sequence 1960 to 2007 |
| CPRE maps show the shocking impact of intrusion on our undisturbed countryside. With increased pressure from development in all forms our peaceful countryside could disappear in only 45 years, within the lifetime of our children. 65% of West Sussex countryside is affected by noise and visual intrusion, 56% in East Sussex |
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In a submission to ESCC, CPRE Sussex has invited the County Council to go back to the drawing board with its waste disposal strategy, because NONE of its proposed Areas of Search will yield an acceptable waste disposal site. The submission also challenges the County's waste water strategy, which could lead to a major sewage works in the Cuckmere Valley.
Director Stuart Meier told a public meeting packed by hundreds of objectors at Hailsham on Saturday January 23rd "the County Council needs to go back to the drawing board - their strategy is unsound and a rethink from scratch is needed. The County need to take urgent action to curtail waste tipping, pushing waste planning up the so-called waste hierarchy, by driving for waste avoidance, reuse and recycling. Tipping waste on greenfields as 'Landraise' is medieval and completely unacceptable". |
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Say NO to Land-Raise Waste Disposal in East Sussex
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East Sussex County Council is proposing "Land raise" - building a hill out of waste on a greenfield site - as the solution to the county's lack of waste disposal capacity, in its "Waste and Minerals Development Framework which went out to consultation in late 2009.
CPRE is objecting strenuously to the proposals, not only because the proposed “areas of search” for a site or sites will destroy greenfields and farmland, but because NONE of the areas will in CPRE's opinion yield a site which is not fundamentally flawed on detailed environmental grounds.
All the five search areas suggested by the county council are in the Low Weald, so avoiding the High Weald area of outstanding natural beauty and the South Downs National Park. However, the southernmost search area is on Laughton Levels, close to the villages of Glynde, Firle and Ripe, and highly visible from the South Downs Way . CPRE believes that its visual impact will be unacceptable to the setting of the National Park, and that it should therefore be rejected. Notably, the South Downs Joint Committee has already objected for this reason.
The four more northerly search areas share one feature apart from proximity to main roads – they would all affect areas of Ancient Woodland, directly or indirectly. While each also has other planning flaws, the protection of Ancient Woodland was greatly strengthened in 2005, and CPRE believes that none of the areas would be acceptable for this reason alone.
East Sussex unquestionably has a major problem with waste disposal, but CPRE Sussex believes that its strategy is fundamentally flawed and must be rethought from scratch, with a major county wide campaign of waste reduction, so that an overwhelming proportion of the county's waste is re-used, recycled, or converted into energy.
For more information please see here
You can find out more about the Consultation on the ESCC website (scroll down the page to find the documents to download)
Alternatively, you can download the Preferred Strategy only.
> Read the views of the local residents who object to the proposals
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South Downs National Park Designation Order
England's 10th National Park
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CPRE Sussex has welcomed with delight the designation of the South Downs National Park, Britain's ninth and newest national park. The Designation Order was signed on 12th November 2009, by Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for DEFRA, at a ceremony held at Ditchling, one of the areas added to the National Park as a result of the re-opened Public Inquiry .
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CPRE Sussex welcomes decision to drop Ford from Ecotown list
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CPRE Sussex has welcomed the news that Ford in Sussex has been struck off the list of Ecotowns in a statement made by the Housing Minister, John Healey.
This announcement follows extensive consultation by the Department of Communities and Local Government ending on 30 April 2009.
> Find out more
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South East Plan
too many houses in the wrong place
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CPRE Sussex is shocked that the final South East Plan is forcing 116,000 houses on Sussex , equivalent to a city the size of Brighton and Hove . Yet three quarters of Sussex is not available for major development at all, due to AONBs, the new National park, and other constraints!
The Argus* on 7th May described the Plan as having ‘ridden roughshod over critics of its house building targets'. We agree!
Other parts of the South East region may have reason to be pleased with the result, but CPRE Sussex is appalled at these housing allocations. The only slight improvement from previous proposals is the 1000 reduction in Brighton & Hove, but none of the countryside districts have been changed from previous excessive proposals.
CPRE Sussex will continue to resist these ill-considered and inappropriate housing allocations which are based on flawed housing projections which have been invalidated by the Credit Crunch.
*See The Argus
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Glyndebourne Wind Turbine Proved to be Hot Air
>Find out more |
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Downland Farm, Uckfield, Planning Appeal Refused
The Secretary of State has refused the application
>Find out more |
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CPRE has launched a major campaign led by their President, the well-known author, Bill Bryson, to target the growing problem of litter in the countryside.
>Find out more
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A growing problem in Sussex where land is subdivided into small plots and sold as if it has development potential. If you know of any such activity please report this to Development Control at your local Council and notify CPRE National Office to help maintain their database. Please email to info@cpre.org.uk titled 'Landbanking in Sussex'
> Find out more
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| Mr Peter Field, Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex and Charles Hendry MP were amongst the guests at the first ever CPRE Sussex Countryside Awards Ceremony, held at Braylsham Castle on 26th May 2009. |
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