Category Archives: Mayfield
A defeat for Mayfield
An emphatic rejection by a Government Planning Inspector states that Mayfields’ proposals are “not appropriate or lawful.” It also describes the rural location as unsustainable, unviable, undeliverable and “severely disadvantaged.” More here
Albourne Park & Ride
Photo courtesy alegriphotos.com.
LAMBS Bug Shot Competition
Most Notable Species:
Brown Argus Butterfly by Dave Hill (photographed in Twineham)
Beauty or Beast:
Orange-tip butterfly by Deborah Herbert (taken between Shermanbury and Henfield)
Weird or Wonderful
Oak Eggar Caterpillar with water droplets by Kat Mitchell (photographed in Albourne)
Runners-up
Bee at work by Andie Melvin Harris
Great Green Bush Cricket by Paul Everest
Cinnabar Caterpillars by John Sandford Pike
Hummingbird Moth by Sharon Dowson
The sun sets on Twineham
Phillip Coote (Con, Crawley Down and Turners Hill) asked if they should “all live in mud huts and burn wood” instead.
Colin Trumble (Con, Hurstpierpoint and Downs) added: “In terms of planning there’s not a lot we can do about it, but I do feel sympathy with the people and the villagers who are going to be affected.”
Annie Hirst, chairman of Twineham Parish Council, spoke of their “disappointment” at the officers’ decision to recommend the application be approved, and felt the large-scale solar farm would have an “additional cumulative industrialising effect” on the area.
[With apologies to Princeton University for the wilful abuse of their photograph.]
LAMBS Ball 2015
Booking is now open for this year’s Yellow Ribbon Ball at Hickstead on Saturday, 26th September. You can reserve a table and bring your friends for an evening of food, fun and dancing. Tickets are £65 (per person) and include a three course meal, dancing to Cinnamon Street and illusions from magician Tom. Email lambsfundraising@gmail.com now to reserve tickets for this year’s event (and save the countryside at the same time).
Bug Shot Competition
Just get out your camera (or phone) and take a close-up of any insect you come across in roughly the area that Mayfield Market Towns hopes to destroy (the rectangle of the Low Weald bounded by the A23 to the east, the A272 to the north, and the A281 to the south and west). Your photo may just prove to be the vital piece of evidence which ends up protecting the area forever. The subjects of all your photos will be identified by our wildlife experts and then judged in the categories of: Beauty or Beast, Weird or Wonderful, or Most Notable Species. Given the rationale for the competition, the quality of your photo is not as important as the subject. The winners in each category will receive copies of the both of first two books in Nils Vissers’s Wyrd Wood Series which are based in the Sussex Weald. Nils is a huge supporter and has already pledged half of the proceeds of his second book to our campaign. Please take part if you can and encourage your family and friends to enter as well. There is no limit to the number of entries.
Submit entries by September 1st 2015 via Facebook or by email to press@lambs.org.uk.
The Colossus of John Rhodes
John Rhodes repeatedly called on the Inspector to reject the [Horsham District Council] plan as “unsound.” Three years ago Mr Rhodes was one of four experts on the Practitioners Advisory Group which helped to draft the government’s National Planning Policy Framework, so he is well placed to negotiate every loophole in the law.