Tag archives for Natural England
Development Special: Destroying Green and Pleasant Land
Sandrock Bends Local residents are campaigning to save an area of land on The Ridge opposite Conqueror’s March pub from an estate of 65 houses. The hectare site is listed…
Action Man, Now!
LUKE FUNNELL - Founder and Director of Project Rewild - echoes David Attenborough’s view that no one will protect what they don’t care about, and no one will care about…
Hastings Country Park Maintains Funding
Hastings Borough Council has been successful in obtaining another 10-year Countryside Stewardship grant for Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve (HCPNR).This latest grant from HCPNR is estimated to be worth £70,000…
Time running out for North Queensway project?
The development project being promoted by Seachange Sussex at North Queensway with £ of public funds allocated by SELEP (South East Local Enterprise Partnership) may be running out of ;…
More Reasons to Save the Bathing Pool Site
Rod Webb shares his opinions on the area’s future In June this year I visited the former bathing pool site, realised what an important asset this area of West St…
England Coast Path Plans Welcomed by SEG
In our article “Waste, Potholes and Footpaths” featured last month (HIP 147), we suggested that the pressure group SEG (Save Ecclesbourne Glen) might be less than impressed by the upbeat…
Solar Panel Row Grows
The Friends of Hasting Country Park Nature Reserve (FHCP) have complained to the government advisory body Natural England about council proposals to site a solar panel farm in an officially…
Mind-body outdoor gymnastics
How much happier we would be, if we had all grown up infused with a feeling that we had the resources for what life was going to throw at us.…