As a resident of Loxwood Village I would like to make several objections to your proposal to build a further 125 homes in our area in the period 2019 to 2035, without fully appreciating the likely implications to our immediate area.

SUSTAINABILITY
Our general area, which is right up on the Surrey border, with Alfold being at the top of the hill less than half a mile away, is already experiencing the building of many new homes, and the traffic on the road we live on, the B2133, has dramatically increased as a result. In addition, as you will be aware, there have been many homes built in nearby Billingshurst, as well as in other nearby areas such as Cranleigh in Surrey where over 1000 new homes have been built: this is our nearest town and only ten minutes away. I am sure you will appreciate this means much more traffic. Also plans have recently been approved in Waverley District for more than 2000 new homes to be built on Dunsfold Airfield, which again is very near to us. All this expansion will increase traffic on our roads dramatically. The main road through Loxwood the B2133 has not been improved for many years. Both in the centre of Loxwood and in Alfold village when cars are parked, which is frequently, one way traffic exists. We also have increasingly seen large lorries using this run to avoid the A29. So, if another 125 more houses or thereabouts are built in Loxwood in this coming period, a lot of funding will be needed to be spent on our and surrounding areas' infrastructure.

SEWAGE SYSTEM
As you will be aware our sewage system in Loxwood is already inadequate for our needs and sewage holding tanks are already having to be used at our latest new village building site. Certain parts of the village also suffer with flooding from streams and surface water when the rains come, and this is before adding further waste water coming down from new building in nearby Surrey. I also understand that Southern Water have no plans for the next few years to improve their facilities in this area.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Currently we only have one bus a day that goes to Guildford, allowing one two hours there before having to return: not a lot of use. If you know the A281 from Guildford to Horsham you will realise that the road is so narrow in Bramley that there are regular traffic jams at rush hour. I appreciate that you are thinking of the needs of West Sussex however for us who live in this part of the county, nearby Surrey is critical for us.

EMPLOYMENT
There is very little employment nearby and good road communications are vital. Thus good new road improvements will be vital if your plans are to be implemented. The present rate of movements in the rush hours do not make for a contented work force.

UNEQUAL HOUSE PLANNING
It is obvious that 125 houses being allocated to Loxwood is totally unreasonable and the proposal has been driven by developers making your decision easier for choosing sites. How can you reasonably justify allocating only 25 new houses to Wisborough Green and none to Kirdford, when you know full well that 60 houses were allocated to all three sites in the previous plan. Why has no attempt been made to share the housing burden equitably across the three mentioned villages? I understand that no consultation of potential housing sites has been undertaken with Loxwood parish, if so where is the local democracy here that we hear so much about?

SCHOOL
With your proposed new building of 125 new homes think what allocation you will have to make for our school?. As you no doubt will know the school was built in the 1970s to last 25 years, and last year it celebrated its 50th anniversary and many basic items now urgently need replacing, and consider what allowance you will have to make for this? If your plans go ahead you will have to consider how many more children will need to enter the school?

You can see from this letter, and others that you will have received, that most of us are really upset that people who do not live in this area are trying to unilaterally ride roughshod over us. Please also do not forget
that unlike those of you who come from Chichester and many other areas, you do not also have to suffer from regular airplane noise from Gatwick Airport, which also we have little control over. Please consider all these aspects before enforcing your preliminary proposals in a non-democratic way, how is this fair and reasonable, we live here and will have to pay the price, not you!