A group of more than seventy Forest Row residents gathered at the northern entrance to the village on Friday (19th September) to launch a petition objecting to the Secretary of State, Hazel Blears’ recent proposal that neighbouring councils “will take the necessary steps to ensure that essential infrastructure is put in place” to support the East Grinstead development of 2500 houses and a relief road. (more…)
Archive for October, 2008
Forest Row Fights Back!
10th October, 2008
Government puts Pressure on Forest Row
10th October, 2008
On 17th July the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, published 450 pages of recommended changes to the all-powerful South East Plan. Lurking in the midst of this weighty document was a potentially devastating paragraph specifically relating to Forest Row.
“Where development is planned close to administrative boundaries, for example East Grinstead, neighbouring authorities will take the necessary steps to ensure that essential infrastructure is put in place to support development.”
