Famous Artist call for support 

22nd May 2008 - Local artist Alexander Creswell, who lives in Ewhurst and is best known for the watercolours he painted of Windsor Castle, both after the fire and after the restoration, and who has had other commissions from the Queen, Prince Charles and a wide range of other famous patrons, has issued a plea to save the Surrey countryside.

“I urge you please to do just one thing: walk to the top of Pitch Hill (or Holmbury Hill, or Hascombe) and look at the view. This view has remained largely unchanged over the last 100 years. You are looking over a part of England's most populated rural county and yet the outlook is almost entirely rural. Amazing isn't it? And you're only 25 miles from Hyde Park Corner.

You see Dunsfold Aerodrome - a strip of green among the trees? You'll spot a Jumbo Jet parked there on the green. Well, how would this view would look with 230 Jumbo Jets parked there? That is precisely the impact of the proposed new town. Is that the legacy we want to leave for future generations who gaze out over the Weald from these beauty spots? I don't - that's why I've joined the Stop Dunsfold New Town Campaign. I urge you to join.”

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