Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has written to the Minister for Housing, Esther McVey MP, asking that a Hassocks planning application is ‘called-in’ for the Government’s own scrutiny.
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Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has written to the leader of Mid Sussex District Council, Jonathan Ash-Edwards, asking him to postpone a planning meeting at which an application for housing on Friars Oak Fields in Hassocks will be considered.
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Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert and Mid Sussex MP Sir Nicholas Soames joined Horsham and Mid Sussex district council candidates near Henfield on Saturday (27 April) to unite in their opposition to a Mayfields new town.
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Nick's speech in the Commons Chamber arguing for local oversight on permitted development applications by drilling firms in National Parks.
Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert cut the ribbon to open Thakeham’s new village hall at a special celebration on Friday (8 March).
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Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has co-sponsored a Parliamentary Bill to give neighbourhood plans more protection from speculative planning applications by developers.
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Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has written to Mid Sussex District Council urging its Planning Committee to reject new housing on Friars Oak Fields in Hassocks.
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Nick’s article on housing policy for the London Evening Standard, published 8 October.
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In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick discusses another busy week in the life of an MP, including his campaigns on West Sussex heritage, rail service and environmental planning permissions for fracking.
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In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick discusses the new revised National Planning Policy Framework and what it means for local development.
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Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has called for planning loopholes which allow developers cynically to “game the system” to be closed, warning that public support for democratically-agreed neighbourhood plans is being undermined.
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Nick’s speech in the Westminster Hall debate on the Five-year Land Supply.
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Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has expressed his “extreme disappointment” over the decision of the Planning Inspector to endorse proposals for a development of 500 houses in Hassocks when signing off on Mid Sussex’s District Plan.
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Nick's intervention on the Secretary of State's statement to the House
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In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick describes another busy week in the life of an MP.
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In his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick discusses local planning, rural banking services, women in public life and Katie Price's campaign against online abuse.
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Read MoreIn his article for the West Sussex County Times, Worthing Herald & Chichester Observer, Nick reaffirms his support for neighbourhood planning.
Read MoreNick's speech in the Westminster Hall debate
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The Liberal Democrat Peer Lord Taylor of Goss Moor has authored a pamphlet published today by Policy Exchange, 'Garden Villages: Empowering localism to solve the housing crisis'. What a pity that Lord Taylor fails to mention in his pamphlet that he is a director of Mayfield Market Towns Limited, a developer which has been trying to build a "new market town" of up to 10,000 houses in open countryside in my West Sussex constituency.
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