The purpose of this mail is to object to the Local plan for Loxwood. The plan proposes an additional 125 houses, this is on top of 60 houses already in the plan.

The basis of my objections are:

Infrastructure:

* Southern Water have formally attested to the fact that the local sewage system is not fit for purpose, it is at capacity and is broken. The water system cannot cope with any additional volume. This have been proven by a recent significant development having to install emergency solution to waste - supposedly temporary but without any long term solution.
* Southern Water have attested to the fact that there is no plan to remediate the water system in the next 5 years.
* It is a fact that Loxwood is prone to flooding - more development will make Loxwood more vulnerable.
* Loxwood has only one bus per day to Guildford, there are no other public transport links. To this end any new residents require many cars - Loxwood already suffers from excess traffic and speeding through the village all hours of the day.
* Loxwood is a small village with no work. Anybody moving into the village will have to drive in order to perform their daily activities including commuting to work.
* To add more roads on/off Guildford road is dangerous. If the plan were to go ahead it would mean that within a few hundred meters there would be many new entrance/exit roads. This will destroy the feel of the village and increase the chance of road traffic accidents including putting children's safety at risk.
* The local amenities are already at full capacity, for example the local school is full and is struggling and serves many villages outside of Loxwood.

Availability of sites:

* Large sites are not readily accessible. This is because the main roads in Loxwood already have houses on either side. In order to access sites for large scale developments (ie green fields behind houses) - the developers are proposing to bulldoze historic, character houses. This will destroy the character of the village.
* The smaller sites mentioned - have proposals for around 10 houses - where currently there is only one. The village has a rural character - this will be destroyed with high density housing developments.
* There is little demand on the market for small urban style housing. Most residents move into Loxwood from larger conservations and cities in order to live in a genuine rural community - not congested housing estates with small gardens.

Environmental Constraints

* The only feasible way that an increase in housing would be feasible on this scale would be to knock down existing period properties (as one developer who has assumed the local plan will change to allow them to build).
* Knocking down period properties to make way for large developments only destroys the fabric, history and feel a village. Removing open green spaces that we as residents moved to the village to enjoy - will destroy the heart of Loxwood - and its integrity as a rural village.
* Fairness - other local villages such as Plaistow, Ifold and Kirdford appear not to have been allocated any housing developent. It is fundamentally not fair for one village to have to grow in double digit percentages and other, local villages to not be effected.