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The Rogate Parish Plan is available for all to view on this website Click-on the link and have a look right now! parishplan2007.pdf |
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ROGATE SCHOOL & ITS EXCELLENT OFSTED REPORT:~ If you would like to read the full Rogate School’s excellent 2007 Ofsted Report please Click HERE You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the report Also, please enable Pop-Ups for this site! or go to the schools own site at http://www.rogate.w-sussex.sch.uk/default.htm Just some of the great comments: "This is a good school where standards are above average and pupils of all abilities make good progress." "One parent said, ‘It is a fantastic school with a very caring, nurturing attitude. All the staff are very dedicated and conscientious, and we have every confidence in them" "Pupils say there is nothing it could do to be better" "Lesson planning is of a high quality, identifying the needs of different groups and individuals within the class and with good detail about how teachers will deliver the content of their lessons" "Teachers have good subject knowledge & prepare their lessons well with appropriate resources, including information & communication technology." |
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Planning White Paper 21st May 2007. Key points from Secretary of State’s announcement to Parliament. This year is the 60th anniversary of Town &Country Planning Act . Barker & Eddington reviews in 2006 highlighted shortcomings of the planning system Present system favours well resourced people who have more influence over outcomes than the less well off. Decision making very slow causing costs and prolonged uncertainty, in no one’s interest. Where there is delay in good & necessary development it can deny society access to improved infrastructure. Proposals in White Paper designed to improve decisions on major infrastructure applications at one extreme and Introduce new approach to householder minor applications whilst protecting interests of neighbours. White Paper consultation period 21st May – 17th August & Major infrastructure proposals Govt. will issue national policy statements about infrastructure required for next 10 – 25 years. These will be subject to close parliamentary scrutiny and intense public debate. Overlapping ‘consent regimes’ will be replaced by a single system. New independent infrastructure planning commission will be created comprising lawyers, planners, environmentalists and communities. Commission will oversee the Inquiry process and take final decision on go ahead. Householder minor applications Makes it easier to carry out minor improvements to domestic dwellings e.g. conservatories or extensions while continuing to protect the interests of neighbours. Will allow householders to install small scale renewable technologies such as solar panels to reduce fuel bills and carbon footprint, without going through a rigorous application process. Strengthened role of Local Govt. Wish to enable local authorities to use planning as an effective tool to achieve their vision for an area. Work with Local Govt Assoc and planning profession to improve performance. Aim to devolve further decision making to LAs and reduce the number of applications called in by the Secretary of State. Reduction in householder applications will enable councils to focus resources on difficult cases. Govt. will speed up the appeals process. For those of you who would like to read more detailed information, click on the link to read the full facts; planning2007 |
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ROGATE PARISH COUNCIL Nick Bainton Esq. Planning Services – Development Group West Sussex County Council. 23rd October 2007.
Dear Sir, As requested we are writing to you regarding the proposed “Regularisation” of the use of Farm Land at Home Farm, Dangstein, Rogate. Application No RG/ /07? Grid Ref: 482089,123894.
By its very nature the wording used by yourselves implies you except the work is being carried out already, despite a “Cessation Enforcement Notice”. We would therefore ask why is this application even being given of both yours, ourselves and many surrounding households, time and effort when being already subject to what one would hope to be a legibly enforceable “Notice”. You may note the use of the wording “Farm Land” at the beginning of this letter, words used correctly in this case as this is indeed farming type land in the middle of a AONB and not industrial or commercial land in the middle of what is already deemed/designated an industrial development area. Whilst being a local grassroots council we are very aware of the difficulties faced by farmers over recent years and have always supported them in anyway possible, however we have not, never will ever do this to the detriment of all other members of both our Parish and other users of our countryside.
We are constantly appealing to local and national Government as well as road users including the road transport and hauliers various associations, to downgrade the A272 through our narrow village but this new application sets out to add another 10 or more large lorries to the already dangerous problems faced by our local people and community as a whole.
We feel we cannot emphasise enough, the total lack of regard or thought for their surrounding community or indeed the local countryside this application shows. For it is not just the noise, the pollution, the dangers of commercialisation of an area of outstanding natural beauty, the major increase in traffic movements to name but a few, it is also about standing up for what is right, not just what we as a Parish Council feel is right for our communities but what they, the very people that chose to live, to work or just to come to admire our very special part of this world have a right to expect, peace and harmony not some great big (and it would be big) industrial cacophony.
We sincerely hope that you will take the same view as ourselves, that of this planning application cannot be allowed, not now nor in the future.
Yours faithfully Ian Croucher. Clerk to RPC 2007. |
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ROGATE PARISH COUNCIL To: David Few Esq. Area Planning Manager. Development & Building Control Department Chichester District Council East Pallant House 1 East Pallant CHICHESTER West Sussex PO19 1TY. 10th December 2007
Dear David, With reference: RG/07/05386/CMA. Rother Valley Organics. Land At Home Farm. Dangstein. Dangstein Road. Rogate. West Sussex. GU31 5BZ. Regularisation of the use of the land for agriculture. The importation, storage, sorting and processing, shredding and recycling of waste wood and for the importation, storage and composting of green waste and your departments ”NO OBJECTION” by “Delegated Decision”
To say we are appalled at the apparent lack of consultation by your department on this most sensitive of issues, would be an understatement to put it mildly.
Looking at your website, we are of the opinion that no attention was given by your department to any previous site history or correspondence appertaining this long running problem.
At the moment there is, as far as I understand a “Cessation Enforcement Notice” in place prohibiting the continuation of recycling on this site, subject to appeal I would grant you but never the less still in place. I notice on your pages on the CDC website, your department failed or so it would appear to a layman, to take any notice of this or ask us, the local Parish Council, of our thoughts and views.
You failed to take in the massive traffic increase and its impact on our village. You failed to get the necessary paperwork and site history from WSCC and finally, failed to delegate the responsibility to one of your officers properly, for if you read the paperwork posted on your portal, it would not be unfair to say that the left hand had lost touch with that of the right hand, as two officers appear to think each other would be dealing with it. In the end who ever did, failed miserably.
Finally I notice with some irony, your own CDC website proclaims:- Our aim is to offer a service which: Protects and enhances the district's natural environment and resources. Consults with and listens to the views of residents, business and others who use planning services. Copied & pasted direct from your own departments pages.
It therefore saddens me that I find myself writing to you like this, we have spoken before and I for one were under the impression we had a good working relationship with yourselves. I sincerely hope you can put both mine and that of my council colleagues, mines at rest and tell us this was but a mistake by your department and not what we should expect in the future. I await your considered comments in due course.
Yours sincerely Ian Croucher. Clerk to RPC 2007. |