I attended the public meeting on 9 December 2018 in this regard and wish to make my strong objections known. I do not believe Chichester District Council's (CDC) Local Plan (LP) to allocate a further 125 houses, plus small 'windfall' sites on top of the 60 houses already allocated in the Local Plan, are delivering sustainable development. This is because:

- Loxwood has little local demand for open market housing. Most houses are bought by folk moving from other places for different reasons.

- There are hardly any job opportunities within Loxwood and residents therefore need to drive elsewhere for work.

- In regards to infrastructure capacity and constraints, Loxwood does not have any viable public transport system. It's workers are therefore required to commute elsewhere for work. Also, Loxwood is seen as a rat run to Guildford, used by HGVs. Given the high volume of traffic passing through Loxwood, any developers should at least be required to fund a bypass to avoid the village.

- Given the significant development of housing nearby in Alfold Bars, Billingshurst, Rudgwick and Horsham, the roads in Loxwood would not cope with the increased traffic caused by the development of housing in these neighbouring parish councils. Our beautiful countryside will rapidly diminish.

- The sewage infrastructure for Loxwood cannot cope with an increase in usage. It is not sustainable to expect future developments to install holding tanks for sewage which need to be regularly emptied by tankers.

- Loxwood is susceptible in places, to water flooding and therefore should be avoided for development as a flood risk area, especially given that sewage holding tanks will need to be used in any new housing development.

- In the current Local Plan, Loxwood, Kirdford and Wisborough Green we're each allocated 60 new houses. In CDC's LP, 125 new houses are proposed in Loxwood; none in Kirdford, Plaistow or Ifold and only 25 in Wisborough Green. This is an unfair distribution and seems wholly driven by developers.

Based on the above, I conclude that the 125 proposed new houses in Loxwood, do not meet the sustainability tests defined in the draft Local Plan. Furthermore, CDC has not followed national planning guidance in developing its draft Local Plan.

I beg you to reconsider this proposal.