Tim Slaney News Today

A national park in Sussex has become the first in the country to allow businesses to invest in its land.

National Park becomes first in the UK to launch formal green finance scheme to drive investment into Biodiversity Net Gain credits

The park authority has earmarked 500 hectares of land on farms and country estates to be transformed through green finance investment.

The South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) has welcomed new targets set by the government to support conversation and tackling climate change.

Plans for nearly 700 homes in a historic town have been approved.

Plans have been approved for the largest all-timber development in the UK

Tim Slaney has been appointed as the interim chief executive officer of the South Downs National Park Authority, succeeding Trevor Beattie.

An owner who was taken to court after building stables and keeping horses on her land in a National Park without permission has been fined £12,000 and ordered to remove them. On 4 September Jane Soul, 65, of Eastleigh, Hampshire, appeared at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court where she was found guilty of breaching three planning notices. […]

New cycle tracks, better bridleways, school playground improvements and work to enhance a precious chalk stream are among the projects to benefit…

A councillor took aim at the developer who wants to turn the landmark old St Dunstan’s home for blind ex-servicemen into luxury flats.