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Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035

Representation ID: 182

Received: 03/01/2019

Respondent: Ms Veronica McCredie

Representation Summary:

Please please do not build any more houses in this lovely village on following grounds
- air quality
- traffic generation
- leave fields for wildlife
- drainage

Full text:

Please please do not build any more houses in this lovely village.

Why did I retire to Fishbourne? My mother and all her family came from this area and she told me how beautiful it was and how good and kind the people are. I still have family in Sussex.

I worked for over forty years in the National Health Service and was awarded the MBE while working as a Nursing Sister at the Royal Free Hospital in London. I wanted to return to the countryside to be near to my relations and fresh air.

The people in Sussex tend to own 2 or more cars and it is not only because some may be elderly but because people are too lazy to walk. Walking is very good to keep one healthy. We have a very good bus service which they could use.

Salthill Road, a residential road, now has huge lorries turning through it, some at great speed plus a great number of cars which cause great pollution. I do not open my window because of this. They can pile up along the road and the car engines are kept running, waiting to get out on to the Portsmouth Road and also waiting for trains to run by.

There is a school with young children nearby, some of them walk to school or they are breathing in all these car and lorry fumes. Have you known or looked after anyone who suffers from cancer of the lung? I have and it is terrible for the patients and upsetting for the nursing staff who care for them.

Why do you not put tolls at each end and the middle of Salthill Road to make the air better for the residents and make money for St Richards Hospital and repairing the roads.

Salthill Road has potholes and cracks in the roads. Speed limit, what is that? It appears to be unknown in Sussex.

One pedestrian crossing and all these cars. If traffic in Edinburgh, Princes Street, can be curtailed, why not Salthill Road? Traffic in Hampstead can be curtailed, why not Salthill Road, Fishbourne???

Please do not touch our playing fields and stop taking the fields around Fishbourne and on the way to Bosham and Emsworth. Leave the fields around the Roman Palace please and the countryside for the Wildlife.

The bus I came home in yesterday nearly crashed with cars in Clay Lane yesterday, the bus driver was brilliant and saved a crash from happening.

Everything that is in the "Fishbourne Village Voice" is correct. Please, please all of you "TAKE IN" what the people have said. Listen to the people for once please.

Land drainage must be allowed to happen and it will not with all new houses.

I had to have people out to clear the drains in Salthill Road and also water in part of my land. The Council told me who to get.

"Please, please, listen to what the people say". They are not stupid.

For one hour one day I watched cars go by over 50% had only one person in them, the driver, and we are short of doctors so it could not have been them.