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We have booked a speaking slot on 1 September to urge Lewes District Council’s Planning Applications Committee to reject a retrospective application for illuminated brick piers on Chailey Common in East Sussex.
The planning application has been submitted by Mr and Mrs John Gibson of White Cottage, Haywards Heath Road, North Chailey. They have erected [...]

We have objected to plans by Awel Aman Tawe to erect a wind turbine, hard standing and access tracks on common land in south Wales. The threatened common is Cefn Gwrhyd Common in the community of Cwmllynfell in Neath Port Talbot. We were consulted about the application for works on common land [...]

We have objected to plans to site two new schools at Whittington Way on the south side of Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire, because they will severely interfere with the Hertfordshire Way long-distance footpath.(1)
The governors of the Bishop’s Stortford and Herts & Essex High Schools want to move the two schools to the Whittington Way [...]

The path across the former slip bridge on Swansea’s seafront is to be closed. The decision was made by Sue Arnott, the inspector acting for Welsh Ministers, at a public inquiry in June into Swansea Council’s proposed extinguishment of the route.
The plan was opposed by the Swansea Slip Bridge Civic Society, ourselves and others. [...]

An inspector acting for the environment secretary has ruled that Rawtenstall public footpath number 237 should be closed, to enable Lancashire County Council to build a new Waterfoot Primary School.
There were nine objections, from the Open Spaces Society, Rossendale Ramblers and others, to Lancashire County Council’s plan to stop up the path, and a hearing [...]

The London Development Agency’s plan to flog off part of Crystal Palace Park, in the London Borough of Bromley, has been approved, following a public inquiry last summer.
The plans from the LDA form part of an ambitious regeneration scheme for the park, with disposal of parts of the park for private housing helping to fund [...]

Swansea Council’s South West Area Planning Committee has rejected an application from Carrington Moore Estates, in which the former Welsh rugby captain Andy Moore has an interest, which threatened Picket Mead Common at Newton.(2)
The planning application was for five detached dwellings and associated works at Picket Mead House, Murton Lane. The officers recommended approval [...]

Three new tennis-courts and other works have been permitted on Therfield Heath Common in Hertfordshire.
The Conservators of Therfield Heath, on behalf of Royston Tennis Club, sought consent from the Planning Inspectorate, under section 38 of the Commons Act 2006, for three new and three replacement tennis-courts, lighting columns, a log-cabin clubhouse and mesh fencing on [...]

‘The unique landscape of Mynydd y Gwair should be treasured not trashed.’
So says the Open Spaces Society(1) as the public inquiry opens into RWE Npower Renewables’ application to build 19 wind turbines on the lovely mountain top of Mynydd y Gwair, eight miles north of Swansea. The inquiry started on Tuesday 20 July.
We are [...]

Plans for eight wind-turbines at Palmers Hollow, Bottesford, Leicestershire, have been rejected by a government inspector.
The developer, Ridgewind, appealed because Melton Borough Council failed to determine the planning application within the statutory period, and the case was heard by inspector Chris Frost at an 11-day public inquiry. We objected to the application, [...]