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The Dever Society News keeps our members in touch with news, comment and latest developments affecting the mid-Hampshire countryside. Here you can browse the current issue, or look back over the years to 2003. All our newsletters open in a new window |
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We lead with the Government's controversial draft National Planning Policy Framework and, more locally, reflect on draft planning strategies for the Winchester District. Look out for the date of our 2012 AGM, too. | |||
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Winchester's new MP writes about his hopes for a fairer planning system in our winter newsletter. Other features include an update on Black Wood, planning consultations in Micheldever, and our upcoming 2011 AGM. | |||
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We feature the ongoing fight for Black Wood on our front page. We also have extensive coverage of the Coalition Government's planning policies, and the possible implications for our local area. | |||
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As the Society celebrates its 20th anniversary, we look back over the last two decades. In other news, the Chairman reviews the farming year and we welcome James Drewer to the Executive Committee. | |||
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Alongside a profile of the Society's new chairman, we bring you news of a reprieve for Black Wood. We also review the South East Plan, and ask how England's ninth National Park could affect planning in mid-Hampshire. |
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Our lead story reveals why the Government rejected Eagle Star's eco-town proposals. This packed issue also features planning policy updates, and news of Forest Holidays' latest plans for Black Wood. | |||
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After a intensive five-month fight against Eagle Star's recycled proposals for an eco-town at Micheldever Station, we look back at the campaign and the people who helped us to win. |
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We review new Government housing proposals, and encouraging progress with the South East Plan. We also report on a key local planning application and the global implications of agricultural change. |
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The draft South East Plan Examination in Public is our top story. Elsewhere in this issue we look at the pressure on local water supplies; good news for stone curlews; and the looming threat of pylons across mid-Hampshire. | |||
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We explain how the new spatial planning system will affect housing numbers in the south east, and look at the issue of using sewage sludge as a fertiliser. Two new committee members also make a first appearance. | |||
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Local and regional planning issues are well to the fore as we reveal that over 200,000 new homes could be built on south east flood plains. And there's a warm welcome for our new President, Prof Khalid Aziz. | |||
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The Society calls for the countryside between Winchester and Basingstoke to be designated as an official 'strategic gap'. On a lighter note, local author Richard Adams writes of his lifelong love of birdsong. | |||
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We report from a Winchester local planning inquiry, update readers on the outlook for stone curlews, and feature an ominous Daily Mail report that 'villages will disappear and rolling fields will be replaced by endless suburbia'. | |||
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Strategic planning issues take pride of place on our front page. On a more domestic note, we feature links with the Micheldever Rail Users Group, and Clive Dixon hands over the Chairman's role to Richard Cowen. | |||
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Beside news of a record shortage of building land, we report controversial claims by English Nature's Dr Keith Porter that 'housing estates in the English countryside would support more wildlife than arable agriculture'. | |||
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A leading planner tells us that new settlements in the countryside are Hampshire's last choice for new housing. Amongst other issues, we also report how local farmers are working to help breeding stone curlews. | |||
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26/10/11
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