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David Bangs (1950-ish – present) is a naturalist, social historian, public artist and author. He has written extensively on the countryside management, both historically and present day in English county of Sussex.

Biography
David has been in the leadership of several successful campaigns to stop the privatisation of Brighton Council’s huge Downland Estate, Worthing Council’s Downland Estate, and Eastbourne Council’s Downland Estate.

He co-led the successful campaign against the privatisation (‘stock transfer’) of the City of Brighton’s council housing (2005-7).

He co-lead the Sussex campaign for the ‘right to roam’ prior to the passing of the CROW Act (Countryside and Rights of Way Act, 2000) which brought in a right to roam on certain types of ‘open country’ – mountain, moor, heath, down, and common.

He was raised in Hove, and returned to Brighton after 25 years away, largely living in Kings Cross, London. He’s been a public artist (mostly painting murals), a care worker, and a gardener.

Works authored
David Bangs has written three books, Whitehawk Hill: Where the Turf meets the Surf, a landscape history and natural history of Brighton’s most remarkable Downland survival (2004), A Freedom to Roam Guide to the Brighton Downs: from Shoreham to Newhaven and Beeding to Lewes (2008) , and The Land of the Brighton Line: A Field Guide to the Middle Sussex and Southeast Surrey Weald (2018).

He has a website for his third book, Land of the Brighton Line and has produced videos describing the ownership and ecological status of the Brighton Downs, Brightons Big Secret: The Downland We Own

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