Category Archives: Mayfield

The Mayfield New Town proposal and the LAMBS opposition to it.

Not in our front yard

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Housing allocation sites MSDC HDC
The Midhurst and Petworth Observer has an interesting report from a Chichester local plan hearing:

Ian Ellis, director of Southern Planning Practice, [said]

The [South Downs] National Park will do the least it possibly can to meet its objectively-assessed housing need, whatever that is going to turn out to be. It will expect a proportion of its objectively-assessed housing need is met by other authorities. My experience is when they go forward with the local plan, they will be .. saying ‘can you accommodate X per cent because we don’t want to accommodate it here and we don’t have to’.

In response, the SDNPA’s strategic planning lead Lucy Howard said the plan was yet to finalise its decisions: “The authority does need to consider the purpose and duty of a national park,” she said, highlighting its ‘landscape sensitiviy’ .. the SDNPA was in the ‘early stages’ of working on its strategic housing market assessment. “We do realise that if necessary we will be approaching neighbouring local planning authorities, but we’re simply not at that stage yet”.

The BBC to film Mayfield — update

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Mayfield on The One Show
Look out for the story on LAMBS’ battle against Mayfield Market Towns to be broadcast on The One Show tomorrow evening from 7:00pm.

The One Show was filming in the locality yesterday looking at Mayfields’ proposals and the wall of opposition from local people. Andy Kershaw and the film crew began at The Royal Oak in Wineham just after breakfast where they spoke to leafleting volunteers before moving to Twineham to interview a local land owner. By lunchtime they were up on Devil’s Dyke talking to LAMBS and the CPRE and then on to Haywards Heath for comments from Mid Sussex District Council and a spokesman from Mayfields.

The BBC to film Mayfield

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Mayfield on The One Show
The BBC’s One Show is coming to the area this Monday evening/Tuesday morning to film a story on Mayfield, LAMBS, the local councils, the MPs and the land owners. Their schedule is unknown but LAMBS hopes to see the immediate area saturated with yellow ribbons to show how strong local opposition to Mayfield is.

New Albourne Road roundabouts

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New Albourne Road roundabouts
Mayfield Market Towns claim that

it is accepted by West Sussex County Council and the Highways Agency that .. proposals are shown and are agreed for how the development will relate to the A23 and to other major roads in the area. In essence, 4,000 dwellings can be serviced from a grade separated new junction at Albourne and closure of the Sayers Common junction, and Mayfield control the land to implement these two proposals.

[Mayfield Market Towns submission to HDC]

Greetings from Crawley New Town

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Greetings from Crawley New Town
LAMBS inspects a vision of the future,

The provision of small socially mixed residential areas, each with its own individuality and its own centre, in order to promote neighbourliness and the social development of the town. Practically all homes are within one-third of a mile of their neighbourhood shops and within one and a quarter miles of the town centre. The character of the individual neighbourhood centres will vary and the design will spring from the natural features of the area, local place names have been retained for the neighbourhoods in all cases and the affix ‘Green’ .. has suggested the creation of a typical English Green at the centre of each neighbourhood.

from sixty five years ago. Well worth a read.

How to Engage in the Planning Process for the Benefit of Wildlife

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How to Engage in the Planning Process for the Benefit of Wildlife
[If you are planning to convert your fields into a new market town, or trying to stop someone else from doing so, then this brief tutorial may be just what you need.]

Laura Brook and Jess Price look at how to engage with planning processes and its impact on wildlife with reference to biodiversity legislation and how to respond to planning applications on biodiversity grounds: (i) an introduction to the planning system in England and key biodiversity legislation & guidance; (ii) the process involved in responding to a planning application on biodiversity grounds; and (iii) some examples of planning applications. A basic run through of the planning system in England and key biodiversity legislation and guidance. An outline of the process involved in responding to a planning application on biodiversity grounds. The course will be run from an ecological stand point and will not cover other planning issues.

Woods Mill, Saturday 4th October, 10:00am–12:30pm. Book here.