M.P. Delivers Public Inquiry Request.
Peter Bottomley M.P has been sent
the letter he promised to give to Ruth Kelly M.P. Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government and Minister for Women. This follows the
meeting between the M.P, Protect Our Woodland, The Worthing Society and Worthing
Friends of the Earth to discuss the Titnore Wood treetop protest and at which he
offered to ensure that a letter (1) from the Groups and who are supported by
Dame Anita Roddick, requesting that the controversial West Durrington
Development be called in
for examination at a Public Inquiry would be handed to the Secretary of State.
John Clark on behalf of the Groups said: "We are most grateful to Mr
Bottomley for his help in seeing that our concerns reach the Secretary of State.
With such a large development impacting on an important ecological area and so
many areas of life for local residents, together with the unfair pressure placed
upon the local authority to provide an unsustainable amount of new housing, we
believe that without a full examination of this development in public there
would be the serious risk of a breakdown in local democracy".
ENDS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Editors Notes:
(1). The letter is published in full on our website: www.protectourwoodland.co.uk/pi.htm
(2) Concerns raised in the letter are: The effect on the setting of the National
Park should Titnore Lane be altered. Contravention of the Worthing Local Plan.
The muddled Highways Agency policy. Local public concern. The woefully
inadequate environmental impact assessment.