Last week there was a short debate in the House of Commons about the Government’s proposals to change the planning procedures for onshore drilling for oil and gas.
On Monday I met some constituents who came to Westminster to attend an event hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Listed Properties, of which I’m a member.
When I was at school in the 1970s we hadn’t heard of the internet, personal computers were just being invented and it would be another two decades before the World Wide Web would be designed (by a British inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee).
On Sunday, September 23 a cycle race will take place across West Sussex. 15,000 amateur riders will take part in Velo South, taking a 100-mile route through the South Downs.
This week there has been further publicity – and understandable outcry – about the investigation of a decorated paratrooper over the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972.
This week the Government published its revised National Planning Policy Framework. This will be important in our area where so much new housing is planned.
This week I again met residents of River Road in Arundel to discuss the collapse of the river wall, and later at the Commons I again met representatives of the Environment Agency to receive an update on the issue. I am doing everything I can to resolve this problem.
This week in the Commons I once again raised the issue of the Thameslink timetable chaos, now in its seventh week, pointing out that steam trains a century ago provided a more reliable service.
