I feel I must voice my concerns and objections to the proposed building of a large number of houses in Lowood, I don't feel the national planning policy the soundness of the draft local plane has been followed.
1. Southern water have stated that the infrastructure for sewage has no more capacity, and will not be updated until the earliest 2025.
2. Loxwood has no public transport
3. Loxwood has no employment locally so all residents have to travel by car putting more traffic on an all ready over loaded A281 and surrounding roads.
4. As parts of Loxwood already are prone to flooding more houses would only increase the risk
5. There is no local call for more housing so new residents to the area would increase the pressure on nursery's, schools and doctors surgery's and other local services.

I believe the new houses proposed do not meet the test of sustainability as stated in the draft local plan there for can't be considered to be sound as defined in the NPPF. The CDC stated the burden of housing should be shared by kirdford, Plaistow, Ifold, wisbourugh green, there has been no effort to share the burden of housing across the three parishes as defined by the CDC as service villages.
The CDC has not followed the national planning guidance in developing its draft plan. There has been no parish consultation about site allocation, national planning guidance states clearly that district councils should carry out desktop studies of potential sites and then consult, this has not happened.