Hook
and Son Dairy Farm Threatened by Housing Development Planning
application reference number WD/2023/1684/MAO A planning application to
build 180 homes by Fernham Homes on ‘Land east of Battle Road.’ IN FACT, THE
LAND HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF LONGLEYS FARM Please write to the Wealden
District Council Case Officer, Mrs C Turner to OBJECT to the proposed
development, Go to Wealden District
Council’s website to see what is being proposed. Essentially, we will lose 40
acres of grazing land that we rent from the landowner. This is the best land on
the farm. Without this land we would have to reduce our herd size and Hook and
Son will no longer be viable. WE WOULD HAVE TO PACK UP MILKING OUR COWS
AND PRODUCING RAW MILK. Please feel free to use the
following reasons for objection: ·
The 40 acres of grazing land is integral to the farm’s viability. ·
Farms should not be fragmented. ·
Farmland producing food for local people should not be fragmented and lost
but protected from development. ·
How would statutory biodiversity gain be achieved on existing organic
farmland with the biodiversity that already provides? ·
The food our farm produces are important to you for different reasons
(raw dairy, organic). ·
Hook and Son are the main raw milk producer in the UK. ·
Hook and Son employ 20 full time and 6 part time people with those jobs
at stake. ·
It is the last dairy farm in Hailsham. ·
It organically farms land on the Pevensey Levels Site of Special
Scientific Interest. ·
It is an award-winning farm for its produce and featured in the film The
Moo Man which was showcased by the United Nations in 2014 in the UN ‘Year of
the Family Farm.’ As well as featuring at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Furthermore,
it is disgraceful that Hailsham Town Council have not objected to this
application.
BN8, BN20, BN21, BN22, BN23, BN24, BN26, BN27, TN21, TN33, TN35, TN34, TN37, TN38, TN39, TN40, TN19 Eastbourne, Willingdon, Polegate, Pevensey, Westham, Hailsham, Herstmonceux, Lewes, Halland, East Hoathly, Heathfield, Burwash, Hastings, Bexhill, Battle, Seaford, Alfriston, Berwick and surrounding areas  PLEASE GIVE US A CALL ON 01323 449494 OR EMAIL: sales@hookandson.co.uk You would be able to have our lovely organic, grass-fed, single herd, milk delivered the traditional way in returnable, reusable glass bottles, (or poly bottles if you prefer), along with our other products: grass-fed butter, cream, & ghee made from our organic milk; as well as free-range eggs from Dunsters' Farm at Cowbeech; organic smoothies from Court Lodge in Wartling; & local potatoes when in season Having difficulty placing an order? 
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