Object

Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035

Representation ID: 2161

Received: 07/02/2019

Respondent: Olivia Shepherd

Representation Summary:

Object to AL6 allocation on the following grounds:
- Building on flood plain
- Loss of wildlife habitat
- Increase in road traffic
- Air and noise pollution
- Road safety
- Schools
- Doctors surgeries

Full text:

I fully object to the plans proposed. I am extremely shocked and upset about the plans proposed and the affects it will have not only on myself but the whole parish of Donnington and surrounding areas. I don't believe the plans proposed have been thought through or in fact are up to date with the current layout of the local area.

Firstly how you will be completely ruining an area of such natural beauty, an area where we are proud and fortunate to live. An area a whole world away from the busy London lifestyle we came from. Your plans will ruin this for us. I will no longer look out on to natural farm land and the beautiful wildlife that calls it home. Instead my view will be destroyed by 100's of rabbit hutch houses, with light, sound and air pollution. Where will the wildlife go from there? Do you plan to kill them to "fit in" with your plans or will there be a survey on the area to see what habitats you will be destroying? As a lover of nature since a very young age I find it extremely distressing to know that these innocent animals will lose their natural habitat all for the benefit of your pockets.

What about the fact you will be building on a NATURAL flood plain? (Policy AL16) How will this affect the local area and my family's property? It rains on average 156.2 days per year, now call me uneducated but where is that all going to go, into surrounding rivers? But as an outcome of this you will have to elevate the banks and also the surrounding roads to stop it flooding over. Your plans to prevent this do not convince me.

As a daily road user I am a custom to the traffic in Chichester from leaving for work first thing in the morning to travelling home in the evening. Building houses will result in an increase in the number of cars. Chichester can barely handle the amount traffic it has now let alone adding more cars into this mix. Increasing journey times and air pollution. Have you ever been to West Wittering on a summer's day or at least tried to get there. The traffic is piled up outside our house from 8am onwards and carries on throughout the day until the evening until they all decide to come home. I ask how adding an average of two cars per home to this mix will help. The roads around the area can be very dangerous especially when trying to cross and the number of cars that exceed the speed limits in place causing a serious risk to cyclists,pedestrians and other car users like myself that stick to the speed limits. As an 19 year old I have felt unsafe at times and I am certain the elderly members of our parish and parents with children feel this concern as well. Increasing the flow through traffic of Donnington increases the danger and can only end badly.

This leads me on to my next point the plans you have sneaked through the back door to add to the A27 SLR and 'traffic improvements' which is basically the options rejected under the A27 consultation. The SLR was rejected by the community and its impact on a raised road will have a devastating effect on the area, its close proximity to the AONB boundary will adversely affect the ecology of the site creating noise, air and light pollution to a sensitive habitat. That just isnt sensible or acceptable and the impact outweighs any perceived justification. Stockbridge\Donnington already suffers high pollution levels generally it now faces being surrounded on all sides by pollution. The health issues will multiply in the vicinity and the noise adversely affect the possibility of wildlife remaining in the area, a huge loss to residents and visitors alike. The light pollution will remove any possibility of the Dark Skies goal of the conservation areas, to be able to observe the night skys is precious and its value only recognised when you can compare it to the view in built up areas which we would end up with. The Roundabout changes are going to impact local residents having to increase their journeys just to access Stockbridge Road if travelling from the West, Whilst they prioritise through traffic how is that improving things for local traffic, it isn't. it's not as if these were not discounted during the last time they were raised, to reintroduce it at a local level is disappointing from our local Council supposedly sensitive to residents views and needs. This is just going to create further bottlenecks in multiple locations. The BABA27 proposals were supposedly the consensus way forward but these have been dealt a bitter blow by these proposals.

The Air quality in Stockbridge already exceeds the recommended air quality levels. With adding in such a large development into the area this can have no benefit on our air quality level. Affecting the elderly people of our parish affecting their health conditions and creating problems for the younger people of our parish giving them long term conditions such as Asthma and eventually could develop into conditions such as COPD and CHD. It is not a situation that will get better with you destroying the natural landscape and will only continue to get worse. Is this fair on generations to come?

There has been no mention of building new schools or new GP surgeries. I work for the NHS in an extremely popular Doctors surgery in Chichester. We have had a major spike in new patients joining the practice and this will only continue with the development of the area. Appointments go within ten minutes of phone lines opening at the moment causing an extreme amount of stress on our services but for patients also. If Chichester keeps developing there has to be more infrastructure added. Children need local schools to attend and Surgeries need to be funded so they can provide a service that patients deserve.