Crowdfunding boosts challenge to controversial 
Arundel Bypass 5A

A "crowdjustice" campaign has been successfully launched to raise funds for a second legal challenge to Highways England. 

Please click on www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-arundels-countryside-from-bypass-ruin to read more.  You could help to reverse the plan to build a bypass through the Arun watermeadows and the South Downs National Park. 

In its first 36 hours, the campaign has already raised the first £5,000.  This covers the legal costs for applying to the court for a Judicial Review (JR).  About £30,000 more will still be needed to cover the legal costs of pursuing the case in court.

Local historian and grandmother Dr Emma Tristram is mounting the JR claim.  She is challenging the errors and omissions in Highways England's misleading and incompetent consultation.  She is asking the court to quash the decision for Option 5A. 

The job should be re-done with proper regard to evidence of impacts, and taking less damaging options into account.  Options which cause less damage and could be acceptable in planning terms might include New Single Purple (a lower-impact version of Option 1) or a tunnel.

Emma's Judicial Review case will complement the National Park's case, which we understand will focus on Highways England's disregard for planning law about major developments in National Parks.  Your support can make all the difference, whether it's £5, £50 or more.  Supporting her Judicial Review not only helps to pay the costs, it is also more evidence, for the judge, of the public interest at stake.

Click here to read the press release giving more of the story and quoting lots of supporter organizations.

What you can do to help

1.  Support Dr Emma Tristram's Judicial Review case 

-   Please become a Backer, donating whatever you feel comfortable with for now
-   Consider donating again in late July when her case has the court go-ahead.
-   Please also take every opportunity to share the crowdjustice site with others

2.  Sign our Petition (click here for link), if you have not yet already done so, and ask your friends to do the same.  Since the announcement, we have had nearly 500 new signatures, bringing the Petition to its previous target of 3,000.  We have now set a new target of 5,000 signatures - please help us to get there.

3.  Share this newsletter, the Crowdjustice site address and the Petition with your friends, and encourage them to sign up as supporters. 

Thank you

Your support means a lot to us.  We will keep you informed  about facts, developments, actions, demonstrations.

And remember:  we are fighting to be able to pass on a sustainable Sussex, rich in natural and cultural resources, to future generations. 

ABNC has been campaigning since the 1980s to protect our important landscapes in Binsted and more widely in Arun District. 

Click here to view information and videos on our website.  
 

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