SEPTEMBER 9 2024 – URGENT CALL FOR PLANNING RE-THINK: THE ‘FIRST PHASE’ OF HOMES ENGLAND’S WEST OF IFIELD MASTERPLAN TO BECOME A COUNTRY PARK – TO PREVENT AN ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE

Richard Symonds

Homes England ”first phase’ of West of Ifield masterplan [outlined in red].  Ifield Golf Club [bottom left]. Ifield Brook Meadows and St Margaret’s Ancient Parish Fields [centre right]. Ifield Court and Moat Scheduled Monument [top centre]. Planned Crawley Western Relief Road running through the centre North East-South West [not shown clearly – but in faint white]. Maples development [bottom centre] – not shown.
An initial 3,250 homes are outlined to be built on the land to the west of Ifield

 

Ifield Brook Meadows [in green] – centre Crawley Western Relief Road [in orange] Ifield Golf Club [in white] – bottom left Ifield Court Moat Scheduled Monument – top centre

 

 

‘Ifield Brook Meadows and Beyond’ [Ifield Country Park proposal] – on left of picture ‘The Meadows’ – Homes England’s housing masterplan – on right of picture

 

 

Proposed Ifield Country Park – including Willoughby Fields Local Nature Reserve [LNR], Ifield Brook Meadows Local Green Space and Site of Nature Conservation Importance [LGS & SNCI] and Ifield Millpond and Watergardens Site of Nature Conservation Importance [SNCI]

 

 

SEPTEMBER 8 2024 – COMPLY WITH ‘WATER NEUTRALITY’ LEGAL REQUIREMENTS TO HELP PREVENT ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE WITHIN PROPOSED IFIELD COUNTRY PARK

 

SEPTEMBER 6 2024 – WATER NEUTRALITY – WEST OF IFIELD/CRAWLEY – HOUSING EMERGENCY – ECOLOGICAL EMERGENCY: ‘WATER RULES HIT HOUSING’ – CRAWLEY OBSERVER – SEPTEMBER 4 2024

 

AUGUST 30 2024 – MAKING A CASE FOR THE REFUSAL OF HOMES ENGLAND’S ‘WEST OF IFIELD’ PLANNING APPLICATION IN IFIELD BROOK MEADOWS AND BEYOND [THE IFIELD COUNTRY PARK PROPOSAL]