Object

Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035

Representation ID: 186

Received: 17/01/2019

Respondent: Mr Simon Taube

Representation Summary:

Objects to allocation of 125 houses in Loxwood on following grounds:
- unequal distribution of houses
- pressure on services
- lack of sewage capacity
- flooding
- traffic issues

Full text:

I wish to register my strong objection to the local plan for Loxwood to build yet more houses. My main objections are as follows:

1. We have already had a new estate of houses just completed and yet a further 125 are proposed. The building of new homes is important and yet why is the responsibility not shared amongst neighbouring villages. Plaistow,,Ifold and Kirdford have not been allocated any. This is unreasonable and illogical and sacrifices Loxwood's village identity to spare those listed above.

2. Pressure on services. Both the doctor's surgery and the local school will not cope with demands resulting from the endless building applications.

3. It is accepted and formally acknowledges by Southern water that the Loxwood sewage capabilities have NO MORE CAPACITY

4. There are areas of Loxwood already prone to severe surface water flooding.

5. I live on Loxwood road and the traffic is already becoming a problem at rush hours. The council stubbornly doesn't change the limit from 40 mph to 30 mph and the limits are often massively exceeded. The last thing we need to do is add to the traffic.

This whole plan of expecting Loxwood to bear 100% of the brunt of the future building plans is as illogical as it is highly suspicious and I think questions should be asked as to why the other villages are so conspicuous by their absence in these plans.