Following the successful campaign to prevent the sale of the land around Cissbury Ring, it was decided at the public meeting on 12th February (Details Here) to change the 'Stop the Cissbury Sell off' campaign into a volunteer organisation aiming to act as a public watchdog or 'defender' of the local countryside.

This organisation is now known as The Worthing Downlanders.

Click on the logo above to be redirected to our new website, or click Here.
 

A map of the Council Owned Downland areas is available by clicking on the map button above.

Can we take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been involved in the campaign, attended the protests and meetings, and contacted the council with your opposition - without all your support, our land at Cissbury would still be for sale!

 

DOWNLAND WHERE WE SHOULD ROAM FREE

These are the fields and little copses we walk with our children up to the Ring. These are the fields where we walk our dogs and meet our neighbours. These are the slopes where we blackberry, and picnic, and watch birds – Buzzards and Skylarks, and the Swallows and Warblers that rest and feed-up on the Cissbury Downs on their long spring and autumn journeys to and from the African Tropics.

This Council owned land at Cissbury is in two bits. One bit comprises a mile and a half along the ridge of Tenant Hill between Charmandean and Cissbury Ring. The other bit comprises three quarters of a mile of Downland on Mount Carvey, between Findon Valley and Cissbury Ring.

Sadly, Worthing councillors have forgotten the public purposes for which this Downland was acquired. It is our job to remind them: -
 

THIS LAND WAS ACQUIRED BY THE COUNCIL MANY YEARS AGO TO PROTECT IT, FOR THE BENEFIT OF WORTHING PEOPLE.

Click on the map below for a larger image of the areas involved.