Earlier this year a major five-year £500,000 project was launched to help safeguard the chalk aquifer of the South Downs that supplies water to 1.2m people and is under increasing threat from climate change. The Aquifer Partnership (TAP) will work to protect groundwater in the Brighton Chalk Block from pollution, as well as increase resilience […]

Planning enforcement is a key service provided by the National Park Authority and teams have been busy throughout the lockdown period ensuring that approved plans and conditions are followed. Site visits resumed in May with social distancing in place after a short, temporary pause. Heather Lealan, Development Management Lead who oversees the enforcement function of […]

Conservation Officer Michael Scammell takes an in-depth look at one fascinating feature of the National Park’s built heritage. It is well known that the National Trust is one of the largest landowners in Britain, but less widely appreciated that around one fifth of that land, over 50,000 hectares, was given over the years as a […]