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Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035

Representation ID: 2900

Received: 25/01/2019

Respondent: Matthew Folkes

Representation Summary:

Objection to Bethwines Farm:

1. Blackboy Lane is very narrow and cannot be widened.
2. School is full.
3. Loss of village identity.
4. Bethwines Farm is good arable land.
5. Bats, Deer, Foxes, Rabbits, Skylarks and many more - need open space.
6. Fishbourne has flooded in the past.
7. Fishbourne has already taken its quota for building in the village and more.
8. Fishbourne Harbour is an AONB.
9. The A27 which is already overloaded.
10. A smaller development on Bethwines Farm, will turn into a larger development of over 1000 homes.

Full text:

I am writing to object very strongly to any proposed building on Bethwines Farm.

Here are my reasons:
1. Blackboy Lane is a very narrow lane, that can not be widened. Any building on Bethwines Farm will create too much traffic for Blackboy Lane and create bottle necks at both ends where the lane narrows.
2. Fishbourne school is already full and can not take any more.
3. I always used to hear people say Fishbourne is a nice place to live, well it will no longer be a nice place to live with any building on Bethwines Farm. Any development will soon turn into a large development and will be very detrimental to Fishbourne.
Fishbourne will lose its village identity.
4. Bethwines Farm is perfectly good sustainable arable land and has been farmed on for over 80 years. It must not be built on.
5. On Bethwines Farm I see and hear wildlife passing by all the time. There are Bats, Deer, Foxes, Rabbits, Skylarks and many more, they need that vital wide open space, which will be devastated if there is any building on Bethwines.
6. Fisbourne has flooded in the past, any building on Bethwines Farm will make it worse.
7. Fishbourne has already taken its quota for building in the village and more. It is not sustainable to build on Bethwines Farm.
8. Fishbourne Harbour is an area of outstanding natural beauty and will be in grave danger of being over used, if there is more building, especially on Bethwines Farm.
9. The A27 which is already over loaded, is not currently being improved. So therefore no more building can be allowed to take place.
10. A smaller development on Bethwines Farm, will turn into a larger development of over 1000 homes. This is not sustainable.

I am very angry with the idea of building on Bethwines Farm. I have lived in Fishbourne all of my life and do not wish to see any more developments.
When will we stop and really think about environment around us, because if we do not look after it, then it can not look after us.

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