Category Archives: Local Developments

By Kevin Smith kevin.smith@sussexpost.co.uk   A government planning inspector has been asked to decide plans for a crematorium in Yapton.   Developer Landlink Estates has appealed against Arun District Council’s refusal of planning permission for the scheme.   Arun’s councillors

By Kevin Smith kevin.smith@sussexpost.co.uk   A green link from Bognor Regis seafront to the South Downs is planned.   The route of some five miles will connect the coastline to the countryside in the national park.   Initial backing for

By Kevin Smith kevin.smith@sussexpost.co.uk   Community inspectors have attacked the government for failing to improve Ford Prison.   The prison’s Independent Monitoring Board said the lack of action to upgrade the buildings at the category D open prison, pictured right,

Work started this week to reinforce the right-turn ban at Bognor Regis retail park junction.   Despite the alterations conducted in October last year to prevent right turning, some drivers continued to turn right, driving around or over the new

Improvements are to be made to well-used lifts at the multi-storey car park in Bognor Regis.   Arun District Council has decided to spend £175,133 refurbishing and modernising the lifts at the facility off Queensway.   The decision to award

Special measures will ensure a legally protected species is looked after while a store is built on the outskirts of Bognor Regis.   The mitigation work will be put in place so badgers which walk across the site of the

Realigning the A29 is ‘vital’ for Bognor Regis several councillors have argued as plans to scrap funding for the project were defeated.   The West Sussex County Council scheme will see a new 4.3km stretch of road to the east

Derelict properties are being knocked down under orders from Arun District Council.   The action was taken as the council stepped up its crackdown on the unoccupied houses.   Councillors have been told the legal authority to demolish three of

By Kevin Smith kevin.smith@sussexpost.co.uk   Determind homeowners remain on alert for demolition workers at a Middleton development site.   Residents from the Silver Birch Drive area have pledged to remain vigilant to the prospect of work at the former poultry

New government planning policies to provide housing for older people helped to see plans for a dementia care home in Climping approved.   Planning inspector Robert Parker backed the 64-bedroom scheme on land behind Baird’s farm shop.   His recent