PRESS RELEASE – IMMEDIATE
COURT HEARING FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW APPEAL
Friday the 5th October will see the Hastings Alliance in court to hear the result of their appeal for a judicial review of the Secretary of State’s decision to provide funding for the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road (BHLR).
Speaking for the Alliance, Chairman Nick Bingham said:
‘ This is a very important day for us in our 12 year campaign to shed light on what is a road scheme evidently based on shaky grounds and wildly optimistic assertions from promoters, East Sussex County Council.
Last weekend’s ‘Rally in the Valley’ – organized by the Combe Haven Defenders and attended by well over 100 protesters – showed us just how much local people resent the destruction predicted by a major and expensive road carrying up to 30,000 vehicles a day through a peaceful and beautiful valley.
‘Experts inside and outside government have already concluded that alternatives have not been fully and properly investigated. That alone is reason enough to halt this scheme – the worst by far for CO2 emissions among the 45 transport schemes currently in development in England’ concluded Mr Bingham’. (1)
ENDS.
Derrick Coffee for the Hastings Alliance)
Transport Futures East Sussex/Campaign for Better Transport / Hastings Alliance 
Not one person from my street attended this meeting. The impact of the proposed road resulting in a new town on our doorstep, farm land owned by: Trinity College, Cambridge. Three thousand houses, two industrial estates, maybe more. Resulting in: a huge loss of farm land and ancient rights of way.
Access-road to three thousand houses not a by-pass. The public have been duped. Sold a pup.
Glad the rally went well, I went to the one on Twyford Down the same day. Good to see the Hastings Alliance campaigners there too.