The National Park Authority is a statutory consultee on plans to extend the Rampion offshore wind farm. Vicki Colwell, Principal Planning Officer, shares an update. The location of the South Downs National Park means that as well as serving a much larger wider population, it also plays host to and is impacted by large-scale infrastructure.  […]

Dr Lynsey Robinson, Ecology Planning Lead, gives her latest lowdown on Biodiversity Net Gain and how to navigate the changes. Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is a way of creating and improving biodiversity by requiring development to have a positive impact on biodiversity. BNG is broadly trying to achieve four things: change how development happens change where development […]

Think of “National Parks” and I doubt planning is the first thing that springs to most people’s minds. Beautiful views, wildlife, access trails, country pubs and castles, perhaps. Yet planning lies at the very heart of everything a National Park is. In my opinion, it’s the glue that holds everything together, providing the framework for […]

An appeal against enforcement action by the Authority over two mobile homes was dismissed by a Government Planning Inspector. The National Park’s enforcement team was made aware in the summer of 2022 that an agricultural field to the southeast of Clappers Lane, Fulking, had been partly covered in hardstanding and two mobile homes placed on […]

  Plans for a hotel complex close to the A3 have been refused because of harm to the landscape. An outline application went before the National Park’s Planning Committee for a hotel, cycle centre and cafe on a 2.5 hectare greenfield site near Buriton, Hampshire. Petersfield Town Council objected to the plan, arguing that the […]