Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1949

SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK (DESIGNATION) VARIATION ORDER 2004

Notice is hereby given that Robert Neil Parry, BA DipTP MRTPI, an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, will hear objections and representations that have been submitted relating to the above-mentioned Order, as part of the South Downs National Park Local Inquiry that is currently under way to hear objections and representations to the South Downs National Park (Designation) Order 2002. The Inquiry is being held at Chatsworth Hotel, Steyne, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 3DU. It will also hear objections to Orders revoking the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and comments on whether a National Park Authority is appropriate and, if so, how might it best be established and operate. Nigel Buchan BA (Hons), MLA (Harvard), MLI has been appointed as Landscape Assessor for the existing Inquiry and will assist the Inspector on matters relating to the above-mentioned Variation Order. Contact point at Defra—Alasdair Grant, Countryside (Recreation and Landscape) Division, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Zone 1/04 Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol BS1 6EB, telephone 18002 0117 372 8234 (via typetalk). Contact point at the Inquiry at Chatsworth Hotel—Barbara Bay, Programme Officer, telephone 01903 237677, fax 01903237678, e-mail barbara.bay@planning-inspectorate.gsi.gov.uk