Its Taken Over 60 Years But At Last We have A National Park

Thursday, 12 November 2009 will go down in history as the day campaigners succeeded against formidable opposition and witnessed Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs sign the papers authorising the creation of the South Downs National Park.

Whilst our campaign joined with all the other groups to ensure the Park was created, the bit we were determined to have included was the Ancient Woodland off Titnore Lane Worthing. However whilst we didn't succeed in getting all of it included, Castle Goring and its Parkland, together with the land and woodland to the west, as far as Titnore Lane has now been included. Clearly had we known in the early 1990's that the remainder of the Greenfield's etc to the south were to be earmarked for a massive urban sprawl, we would have tried to put a stop to it being included in the structure plan for the area.

However our campaign to save Titnore Lane, the remainder of the ancient woodland and the hedgerows outside the Park from developers will now be stepped up. To that end we have decided to help the Ramblers prevent an ancient Right of Way (FP 3114) leading north from Fulbeck Avenue (see) being lost so that Tesco can get their lorries into the massive store being built on one of the green fields.

For a map of the Titnore area now included in the Park click

For all the other Park documents click

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