Tesco Plans Submitted
Tesco have submitted a formal planning application for the Upper High Street development site. This follows an exhibition of their proposals during the summer months.
4 Oct 2009
National News
Home Office must stop fiddling figures to justify holding innocents' DNA - Huhne
Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary Chris Huhne has written to the Home Secretary to raise concerns over the misleading use of statistics to justify holding the DNA of innocent people on the Government's database.
4 Oct 2009
Yes to Europe
The 67% Irish vote in favour of the Lisbon Treaty is a vote against the Conservative and UKIP politicians who tried to urge a no vote and who would like to see us withdraw from Europe at the cost of local jobs. The Conservatives are tied to their Eurosceptic wing who forced David Cameron to withdraw his MEP's from a mainstream caucus in the European Parliament, and instead to align themselves with a handful of east European extreme right wingers. It is no coincidence that the Conservative who described the NHS as "a sixty year mistake" is an MEP representing the same strand of rightwing Eurosceptics that seem to want to see us out of Europe whatever the cost to our economy.
4 Oct 2009
Conservative Council plans to dump new housing on Burgess Hill
Mid Sussex District Council seems intent on imposing the bulk of the housing required under the government's housing targets onto Burgess Hill, having issued a press release outlining its favoured sites without consultation or discussion with any of the district's three town councils. It proposes 3,800 or 82% of the identified houses to be built to the north and north west of Burgess Hill (the 'Northern Arc'), as well as 570 houses on land to the west of East Grinstead (Imberhorne Farm) and 275 houses at Hurst Farm, Haywards Heath.
3 Oct 2009
Developers seeking permission for 400 new homes in Lower Sunbury
Two major developments are being proposed by developers for sites in Lower Sunbury. Between them the developments would comprise about 400 units with over 300 on the London Irish site and 88 at the Environment Agency on Fordbridge Road.
3 Oct 2009
Looking into the cost of Blindness
Annette Brooke MP recently met up with the Eye Health Alliance to learn more about the importance of eye health and regular sight tests.
3 Oct 2009