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Your Letters
Letter: No to academies
THE WEST Sussex Teachers’ Association (NUT), representing more than 4,000 teachers in the maintained and private sector in West Sussex, restated its opposition to academies in West Sussex at an executive meeting on February 4.
Letter: Olympic legacy
I RECENTLY wrote to Jeremy Hunt (Con, South West Surrey), Minister for Culture and Sport, regarding the possible closure of Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre.
Letter: Incorrect figures
FURTHER to your article in last week’s paper, as a Southwater parent, I was immensely relieved to learn that HCT/Oasis have admitted that their figures about projected pupil intake were incorrect and that there ARE sufficient places for our children at the existing secondary schools and there is no urgent need for an additional school in Southwater.
Letter: Deserve better
TEACHERS in West Sussex have joined the heads in Horsham in condemning the ill-conceived free school proposal for Southwater. This experimental free school will not even be required to employ qualified teachers.
Letter: Garden days for hospice
ARE YOU green-fingered and a keen gardener and want to share your joy?
Letter: Appeal to the PM
IT APPEARS that Horsham District Council is totally set on accepting the Berkeley’s development proposals in Southwater despite all the very good reasons against it.
Letter: Countdown to digital switchover
ANALOGUE TV viewers in parts of Horsham have just two weeks to get ready for the digital TV switchover, starting on February 29.
Letter: 24 per cent rise in water bill
FOLLOWING your article on February 2, where you disclose that Southern Water is raising its bills by an average of 8.2 per cent in 2012, I have to say that is a gross underestimate for those of us who have recently been fitted with a water meter.
Letter: Help for customers
I AM WRITING in response to the article in your newspaper (February 2) on support around water bills for people undergoing renal dialysis at home.
Letter: Stifled by regulations
I ENQUIRED about booking the sports hall at Southwater Leisure Centre for my seven-year-old son and some of his school friends to play football for an hour. You would think that would be fairly straightforward, wouldn’t you?
Letter: Resolve to volunteer
NEW YEAR is traditionally the time to make resolutions but for many of us those resolutions may wilt during the dark evenings and cold weather.
Letter: further £25,000 needed for Horsham church
HOLY Innocents’ parishioners are feeling the warmth of their new heating system. A big thank you to the public and parishioners for the £25,000 already raised.
Letter: Impact of extra traffic
IN ADDITION to all the other concerns about Waitrose’s plans for a superstore, in the heart of the Downland village of Storrington, is use of this site to act as a distribution centre for the John Lewis internet shopping business.
Letter: Quality brand
I, TOO, went to the recent parish council meeting in Sullington Parish Hall where the Waitrose expansion plan was discussed and various representations were made by local residents and a representative of Waitrose.
1 commentLetter: Forgotten veterans
THIS is a follow up to a letter I sent your publication late last year. I wish to update your readers on our progress and to thank those who contacted and joined Equality for Veterans Association (EfVA).
Letter: Work with Waitrose
I AM WRITING in response to a letter from Phillip Tapsfield in your edition of January 25, regarding many issues surrounding Storrington and Sullington Parish Council.
2 commentsLetter: No water competition
I SEE Southern Water is trying to rip its customers off again by putting up its charges for next year by 8.2 per cent.
Letter: Respect for the land
THE FARMLAND of Horsham’s Denne Park/Hill and Barrackfield together with the adjoining woodland has been privately owned by my family since the 1950s and the pasture is grazed by cattle year round.
Letter: Spring clean to help families
ACCORDING to comedian Michael Macintyre many of us have a ‘man-drawer’ in our homes - a repository for broken, obsolete everyday clutter like spent batteries and mobile phones.
Letter: Staggering water charges
MATTHEW Wright (Southern Water chief executive) justifies an 8.2 per cent increase in water rates on ‘supporting thousands of jobs while delivering improved services and a wide range of environmental improvements’.
1 commentLetter: Service to community
I WOULD like to thank Trevor Dayneswood (letters, February 2) for drawing attention to my long standing service to the community, examples of which have been given in literature recently delivered to homes in Slinfold.
Letter: Solutions to litter blight
I READ with interest and sad resignation your February 2 South Downs edition lead article on fly-tipping and littering and have to agree with the description you use: it is a blight on our otherwise wonderful country.
Letter: Risks from development
WITH reference to the article in the County Times of January 19 ‘Anthrax concerns raised at meeting’, I felt the public ought to be aware of the exact position in relation to the anthrax risk if Berkeley’s are granted outline planning permission to develop Great House Farm land to the west of Worthing Road in Southwater.
Letter: NIMBYs on radar
WHILE reading the County Times of February 2, I couldn’t help noticing that the dominant topic throughout the paper was the thorny issue of potential new housing and the possible locations of new developments.
1 commentLetter: It’s not all about money
WHAT has been very surprising over recent weeks, since the announcement of the proposed huge development on the A264 north of Horsham, is the lack of concern over the ‘environment’ - the pollution and the waste produced by a population increase of 25 per cent in the surrounding area.
Letter: Problem with litter in Rusper
I READ, with interest, Reg Roberts’ letter in the County Times (January 26) regarding the litter problem in Rusper.
Letter: All will be welcomed
I’D LIKE to thank Mary McCallen (letters, January 19) for providing us with the opportunity to assure parents and families who might be interested in sending their children to a school in Southwater, that both Horsham Churches Together and Oasis are passionate about ensuring that all children are included.
3 commentsLetter: Landscape will be lost at Warnham Mill Pond
REGARDING the fate of Warnham Mill Pond, we are told that the favoured solution just happens to be that which is both the cheapest and that which was being pushed forward by Horsham District Council.
Letter: County Times supports no political party
ONE OF the many roles of the local newspaper is to unoffically scrutinise the work and policies of the local authority, in Horsham’s case, Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council.
Letter: Choice is removed
I AM WRITING in regards to the proposed changes to the catchment areas of Heron Way and Kingslea primary schools in Horsham.
Letter: ‘Get together’ over development opposition
HAVING read so many letters in this paper from people who are obviously opposed to the proposed development over such a large area north of the A264, it would seem that it is time to get together and speak with one voice.
Letter: Countryside overwhelmed
PAUL Deacon (Comment, January 12) is not alone in stating he is filled with nausea at the plans to destroy irrevocably our countryside.
Letter: Effect on flooding to be considered
REGARDING development north of Horsham and West Sussex north of the South Downs, before any more development planning is considered an in-depth study needs to be taken on the effect on flooding and flood defences down the river in the catchments on both the Adur, and the Arun, for there is no point building thousands of new homes if it means wiping out thousands of homes down river.
Letter: Open season on green sites
I WAS shocked and absolutely appalled to read of Crickmay Chartered Surveyors’ plan to build on 800 acres of lovely countryside north of the Horsham bypass.
Letter: Fill 1,200 empty homes
AFTER attending the Horsham District Council Strategic Planning Advisory Group (SPAG) meeting on January 12 where, unfortunately, only a small number of councillors (ie, our elected representatives) seemed to understand the implications and problems with creating mass urbanisation of the district, I have devised a simple solution to the so-called housing problem.
Letter: North Horsham - ‘legalised vandalism’
I WRITE (yet again) regarding the proposed development on the side of the A264 within the ‘Strategic Gap’ between Horsham and Crawley. For many years I have objected to this development in many phases, but to even consider a new huge housing development in the present economic climate is beyond belief!
Letter: Absolutely disgraceful
LOOKING back over the last few months I have come to the conclusion that some members of Horsham District Council must meet together just between themselves to discuss what next they can propose that will upset the residents of Horsham.
Letter: Protect West Chiltington pub
I am writing with reference to your story on the development plans for the ‘Elephant & Castle’ former public house in Church Street, West Chiltington.
1 commentLetter: Steyning ramp worries
THE PUBLIC meeting held to debate the installation of a skateboard ramp in the Steyning Memorial Playing Field left many unanswered questions.The parish council made an undertaking during the meeting that they would not build a facility that would breach World Health Organisation (WHO) limits on noise levels. However their own presentation showed that even with 1500mm high grass bunds installed around the ramp and the latest surfacing, in the evenings noise levels for nearby residents would breach WHO guidelines. When asked whether fencing would be needed prevent the ramp being used on summer evenings they did not reply- leaving the prospect of unsightly high fencing being installed in this visually sensitive site adjoining the National Park.They also mentioned the creation of a footpath from Mill Lane and a drop-off parking area in Mill Lane but without showing on their plans where these would be sited and how further traffic could be accommodated in this already over-crowded,narrow street.The council said the skateboard facility would be withdrawn if anti-social behaviour resulted without explaining how this could be done once tons of concrete have been poured onto the playing field. Although they undertook not to breach noise guidelines they did not explain how this would be monitored nor how it could be remedied if breaches do result.
Letter: ‘Ripped off for parking in Horsham
I READ that the Government is urging local authorities not to have any increases in council tax which hopefully Horsham District Council will comply with.
Letter: Parking charge is prohibitive
I HAVE been an early morning, 7am swimmer at Horsham for many years, at the previous pool and the Pavilions.
1 commentLetter: ‘Out of touch with community mood’
WITH regard to councillor Roger Paterson’s response to our petition and concern over the ever changing Hurst Road, Horsham, car parking fee hike (County Times Horsham edition January 19), I took exception to the fact he thinks a 50 per cent increase is ‘small’.
1 commentLetter: ‘The Rotten Borough’ of Horsham
WHILE waiting for a bus in the Carfax, I re-read the WSCT Millennium Capsule Plaque where it gives a brief description of how and when Horsham began.
Letter: Southwater school is needed
FURTHER to articles about the free school proposal, it would seem that in the heat of the debate some common sense has been mislaid.
1 commentLetter: Creating divisions
I HAVE no problem about finding new ways to fund schools providing standards are as they should be, however I am very concerned about a group of churches funding the proposed school in Southwater.
Letter: Excellent prospect for Storrington
IN REACTION to the parish council’s decision to support the proposed Waitrose expansion in Storrington, almost a whole page of your latest edition was devoted to the views of the antis.
1 commentLetter: Concern at Storrington store plan
ALTHOUGH the parish council gave its approval in principle to the Waitrose application for Storrington, it was clear that councillors had more reservations than the Plains tribes of North America.
Letter: Waitrose decision flies in face of reservations
THE DECISION by Storrington and Sullington Parish Council to approve in principle the extension to Waitrose under DC/11/2334 flew in the face of councillors’ own reservations about the plans as well as those of residents.
Letter: Lack of facilities in Storrington
I AM WRITING to ask why there are no public toilets in Storrington?
Letter: Horror at litter trail in Rusper
I LIVE in the picturesque village of Rusper and have done so since emigrating from Australia some 30 years ago.
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