DECEMBER 5 2022 – FROM THE ARCHIVES [JULY 17 2021] – SA101: LAND WEST OF IFIELD – “WHAT PART OF ‘NOT CURRENTLY DEVELOPABLE’ DOES HDC CABINET FAIL TO UNDERSTAND?”

 

JULY 17 2021 – SA 101 [LAND WEST OF IFIELD]: “WHAT PART OF ‘NOT CURRENTLY DEVELOPABLE’ DOES HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL CABINET FAIL TO UNDERSTAND?”

 

SA 101 [LAND WEST OF IFIELD] – “NOT CURRENTLY DEVELOPABLE” – STRATEGIC HOUSING AND ECONOMIC LAND AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT [SHELAA] – HOUSING REPORT 2018 [PUBLISHED JANUARY 2019] – HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL

 

Ifield Society demands Independent Inquiry into Homes England and Sir Edward Lister

The Queen Elizabeth II Bewbush Water Gardens Walk took place last Saturday [Dec 3] to mark 10 years of protection by Fields in Trust.

Raymond Smith of Ifield Mill showed walkers the remains of Bewbush Water Mill, bordering the Kilnwood Vale housing development – a former landfill site which used to be two large ponds.

It was a shock to discover the extent of destruction and pollution on this building site within this ancient Parish.

There is a possibility of serious contamination to Bewbush Brook at the Mill Pond & Water Gardens SNCI [Site of Nature Conservation Importance], Ifield Brook in Ifield Brook Meadows LGS [Local Green Space] and the River Mole at Willoughby Fields LNR [Local Nature Reserve]. Has this proposed Queen Elizabeth II Nature Reserve full protection, or is this a ‘community catastrophe times 10,000’ waiting to happen?

Richard W. Symonds – The Ifield Society

Poem adapted from “the unofficial county motto ‘We wunt be druv'” by Victor Cook, written in 1914

‘WE WUNT BE DRUV IN IFIELD’

by Richard W. Symonds

 

Some folks as come to Ifield

They reckons as they know

A durn sight better what to do

Than simple folks, like me and you

 

But them as comes to Ifield

They mustn’t push and shove.

For Ifield will be Ifield,

And Ifield wunt be druv.

 

There ain’t no place like Ifield

Until ye goos above,

For Ifield will be Ifield 

And Ifield won’t be druv.