Category: "in-your-area"
'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 »