{"id":4103,"date":"2012-04-27T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2012-04-27T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T14:37:27","slug":"village-green-ruling-at-newhaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4103","title":{"rendered":"Village green ruling at Newhaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A High Court judge has decided that West Beach at Newhaven in East Sussex is not a village green as Mr. Justice Ouseley ruled it did not qualify because its use by local people for informal recreation was incompatible with its statutory use as a port by the owner, Newhaven Port and Properties Ltd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Newhaven Town Council applied to East Sussex County Council for the 15 acres to be registered as a green when the owner erected fences and closed off the beach to the public in 2008. The council, after holding a public inquiry, agreed to register the green but the company challenged the decision in the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Ashbrook, general secretary of the Open Spaces Society which advised Newhaven Town Council, said: \u2018We are disappointed that this case appears to have been lost on a technicality. It was held that because the port authority had statutory authority to run a port here, this conflicts in law with the use of the land as a green. But there is no such conflict in practice, people have enjoyed this land for decades &#8211; and continue to do so despite the fencing which was erected to keep them out.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read the Newhaven Town Council report at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhaventowncouncil.gov.uk\/news \" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2012\/mar12\/280312\/280312_7\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court judge has decided that West Beach at Newhaven in East Sussex is not a village green as Mr. Justice Ouseley ruled it did not qualify because its use by local people for informal recreation was incompatible with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4104,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}