A West Sussex Action Group Committed to Protecting a Valued Local Asset
The Liaison meeting discussed the area outlined in the image below. Many of the people who attended the meeting appeared frustrated that so little detail of the wider developments road layout was shown or explained. An important point was established regarding access for people onto Centurion Way. It was agreed that the park area is…
Sarah Hughes is the Community Wildlife Officer for Chichester District Council. She has contacted Sarah Sharp (our Green City Councillor) to ask if she knows local people who can give information about types of animals that use ‘Wildlife Corridors’ in the Chichester area. If path users can report what wildlife is seen on Centurion Way…
Alister Linton-Crook who is the Cycling Project Officer for the South Downs National Park Authority, has informed us on behalf of National Park Authority that: “We are pleased to announce the submission of the planning application for the next section of Centurion Way which is an important step towards the realisation of this much desired…
Philip Maber (an active member of the FoCW) has discovered from the Shoreham-by-cycle group that Sustrans have a new campaign to remove 16,000 barriers to cycling from the National Cycling Network. If we as a group can preserve the existing route of Centurion Way we will be very lucky. Our path already has extremely few…
Website Revamp Visitors to these pages may notice the FoCW webpages are being revamped. Believe it or not, the FoCW website has been on-line almost a full year. Members of FoCW know development plans are in the pipeline that threaten our path and we want to be sure even more people are ready to engage with…
BBC News are running an interesting story about “Young couples trapped in car dependency“. The news report highlights issues with recent relaxation of planing requirements intended to stimulate the creation of new housing developments. Some residents of these developments are hit by a double whammy of having few community amenities while also suffering from limited…
Southdowns National Park have published an open invitation to come and view their Centurion Way Planning Drawings for the stretch from West Dean to the South Downs Way, Cocking. 24 October 3pm to 7pm Cocking Village Hall, Bell Ln, Cocking, GU29 0HU Read the full details of their invitation here SDNPA Project Update Stakeholders Sept_2018…
Late this summer Adam Bell reported issues with Centurion Way Path to our local authorities. There was a long and reasonably wide crack along the centre of the path at it’s southern end. It was an especial nasty if cycling at night. In virtually no time at all the local authorities repaired crack in the…
Clare Balding hears the uplifting story of how walking helped a young man recover from a brain injury. Click here for link to podcast. At the age of 23, Matt Masson fell off a roof during a night out. He was in a coma for six weeks and, when he awoke, couldn’t walk, talk or…
Philip Maber caught this interesting image at night on the 18th August. It shows interesting nocturnal activities of some of the Friends of Centurion Way participating in a walk to find bats. A young bat enthusiast Francesca can be seen on the right of the image holding a bat detector and third from the right…