We attended the local plan consultation meeting at Chidham and Hambrook Village Hall on 10th January and would like to register our concern about lack of infrastructure to support another 500 new homes.

We have been told that the school is already full again, several years before that was forecast to happen. There are no medical facilities in Chidham or Hambrook, no chemist, no dentist and no convenience store. With 1250 more homes in Southbourne and 250 more in Bosham, we cannot begin to imagine how the two nearest Doctor's Surgeries will cope with their own increases, let alone the 500 additional households in Chidham and Hambrook.

Please would the Parish Council and District Council do their utmost to ensure the deficits to our infrastructure are remedied BEFORE any further house building is sanctioned.

Please ensure that the 2 form entry school is treated as an urgent priority. It was clearly required 2 years ago instead of wasting money on the temporary building. If this does not happen in the immediate future, new families moving to the many new properties already built/being built (e.g. Greenacres and the Saab site) will have to drive out of area, putting more cars on our busy roads, polluting the air quality and perpetuating the problem as any subsequent siblings may follow suit.

Until the deficits in infrastructure are remedied, Chidham and Hambrook are only likely to appeal to extremely healthy adults without school-age children, who enjoy church, public houses and walking!

It will be interesting to see what land is proffered to site the houses and school and we look forward to further consultation when that information is available.