CPRE South East: CPRE Sussex: South East Plan too many houses, in the wrong place


	CPRE Sussex: South East Plan: too many houses, in the wrong place
CPRE South East Campaigning to Protect the South East's Countryside Home News Campaigns & Issues About CPRE South East Search CPRE CPRE Berkshire CPRE Buckinghamshire CPRE Hampshire CPRE Kent CPRE Oxfordshire CPRE Surrey CPRE Sussex CPRE national website	11 May 2009 CPRE Sussex has hit out at government housing plans, expressing grave disappointment that the South East Plan is forcing 116,000 new houses on Sussex. Rodney Chambers from CPRE Sussex said â€œThis is equivalent to an extra city the size of Brighton and Hove combined, yet three quarters of Sussex is not available for major development at all.â€ Â â€œWe are fortunate that Sussex is incredibly beautiful with the new South Downs National Park, areas of outstanding natural beauty like the High Weald and important wildlife areas like Chichester Harbour and Pevensey Marshes. But those areas mean that all those houses will be crammed into the remaining spaces. It is simply absurdâ€. Â â€œThe Plan may have been greeted with relief in some parts of the South East Region, but here in Sussex we are 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 has been changed from previous excessive proposalsâ€, he continued Â â€œCPRE Sussex say they will continue to resist what they describe as â€œill-considered and inappropriate housing allocations, based on flawed housing projections which are invalid after the Credit Crunchâ€. â€œAlthough we recognise the need for new housing, it has to be the right kind of housing in the right placesâ€ â€This government plan will soon be up for review, and we will be demanding big reductions because it is simply unsustainableâ€ Mr Chambers concluded. Â [ends] Â CPRE Sussex is the Sussex branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. ItÂ is a charity, based at Blackboys in East Sussex, which represents nearly 2000 organisations and individuals who are concerned that the countryside should be protected from inappropriate development.

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