Category: "in-your-area"
Love to Ride
Let's get more people riding Love to Ride is all about showing more people how easy and enjoyable cycling is. If you love to ride, then let's spread the love! Show your support for cycling and together we can get more people cycling. Follow this link to find your local read more »
Next steps agreed for Selsey Haven
Project partners have agreed to commit further funds to continue investigating the possibility of creating a harbour in Selsey. Initial feasibility work on the Selsey Haven Project began in 2015 to look at the possibility of building a small harbour at East Beach, to provide protection for the town's vital... read more »
STOMP
New funding to support sustainable tourism on the Manhood Peninsula has been secured Working with local industry partners, the University of Chichester Business School has secured a grant of £69,000 from the Rural Development Programme for England Growth Programme to develop... read more »
'Captain Catch' Silent Films
‘Captain Catch’s Silent Film Festival’ is a project funded by the Seafish Strategic Investment Fund and delivered by Beard Askew. Involving five classes of primary school pupils from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales the project helped illustrate a number of important seafood industry topics. Is this... read more »
Land Settlement Association
The Novium Museum, Chichester, is current host to the extremely successful exhibition on the Sidlesham Land Settlement Association (LSA) and visitor trail produced by Dr Bill Martin and the Manhood Wildlife & Heritage Group. The exhibition explores the 20 LSAs set up across England following the industrial depression of the late... read more »
Magic Seaweed
The Magic Seaweed surfers' website tells you all the exciting news in surfing, and most importantly, the latest in surf height and prevailing conditions in many places on the UK coast where surfing takes place. This includes East Wittering & Bracklesham and West Wittering. Web cams in both places take you right... read more »
Hydrogen Powered Catamaran
A HYDROGEN-fuel catamaran built by Cheetah Marine has demonstrated the potential of zero CO2 technology in the marine industry. The catamaran is the first marine example of Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine (HICE) technology and has been tested throughout the spring, concluding with a 100km round the Island voyage in... read more »
Mapping Saltmarsh Carbon Stocks
The CBESS (A hierarchical approach to the examination of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service flows across coastal margins) project has produced a free tool for predicting and mapping carbon stock in salt marshes. The tool is for governmental and non-governmental organisations that have interests in salt... read more »
A27 Chichester Bypass Consultation
Highways England has begun the consultation on the A27 Improvement Scheme. Congestion and extensive queuing occur daily at most of the junctions along the bypass, especially during the seasonal peaks. The traffic volumes and congestion on the bypass also have an impact on air quality and noise in the... read more »
Green Guide
Chichester Harbour Conservancy have a few green words of advice to offer people visiting Chichester Harbour. We feel they are extremely useful wherever you are on the footpaths and byways of the Manhood Peninsula: Respect the landscape, wildlife and heritage of Chichester Harbour When visiting the harbour, please keep to... read more »
New Conservancy Appointment
Chichester Harbour Conservancy is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Craven to the new post of Director and Harbour Master. This is part of a wider restructure of the organisation, which sees the amalgamation of the posts of Harbour Master and Director. Roger Price, Chairman of the Conservancy said,... read more »
Marine Socio Economics
To influence long-lasting sustainable change in how marine resources are managed, the New Economics Foundation (NEF) have produced a collection of resources as a reference pack for NGOs and those people who may be new to the economic concepts and language that underpin many socio-economic issues. It’s also for anyone with an interest in socio-economics, the... read more »
Planning Improvements for AONBs
National Trust report suggests planning improvements for AONBs Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) like Chichester Harbour are some of the most special and most loved places in England, due to their distinctive character and natural beauty. However, many of these protected areas are coming under increased pressure from development so... read more »
Project FLOW
The Manhood Wildlife & Heritage Group (MWHG) is delighted to announce that HLF has awarded it funding to support Project FLOW - Fixing and Linking Our Wetlands. The project was designed by MWHG to enhance and improve the environment on the Manhood Peninsula and to help reduce flood risk. MWHG now has permission... read more »
Selsey Festival 2015
Selsey Festival takes place this August and features a huge variety of events. Shows, talks, exhibitions, fetes, pop-up cinema, fairs and sport ending with the Bank Holiday weekend Selsey Carnival. This year there is a special East Beach Weekend on East Beach Green, Selsey from Fri 21 - Sun 23... read more »
Blue New Deal
The Blue New Deal sets a vision for revitalising coastal communities and protecting the natural resources they depend on. Their aim is to balance the economic and social needs of communities with those of our marine environment, ensuring their return to prosperity. The UK coast and seas are assets to... read more »
East Head Adaptive Management
East Head is one of the fastest moving sand and shingle spits in the United Kingdom, and one of the last surviving pieces of natural coastline in West Sussex. The sand dunes of East Head are important features at the entrance to Chichester Harbour, which are used for recreation... read more »
RSPB Medmerry Map
The RSPB have issued a new map showing the path round Medmerry. Although a path has been created round most of the reserve, the RSPB are keen to point out that agreements with landowners have not been obtained for the whole route. People are asked to respect the section... read more »
Flooding Reference Guide
The Home Owners' Guide to Flood Resilience is written especially with the home owner in mind. The guide illustrates the variety of ways a home can be protected and aims to reduce the worry about what flood protection products to use. It also explains when it is appropriate to use them. The guide has... read more »
Novium free entry from 17th Nov
From Monday the 17th of November, entry to the Novium Museum in central Chichester will be free. Their collections span thousands of years of human history - from Prehistoric stone tools to protest banners from the 1990s. Collections of social history artefacts, archaeology and geology collections catalogue the history of the district and directly connect local... read more »