I appreciate the need for more housing so my concerns lay with the infrastructure and my view that planners do not live in the real world. The plans contain the stock phrases about transport links but the reality is people like to use their own vehicles. In our small close we have up to 40 vehicles - I admit that I am guilty of adding to that number, but it is so convenient. The local roads struggle at peak times and the railway crossing at Southbourne can be a nightmare, forcing locals to use the Inlands Road crossing. The occupiers of any new housing north of the railway line will naturally use the back roads via Westbourne (wholly impractical) and Woodmancote to access Havant, Petersfield direction and Chichester. The local schools will have to expand with a resultant gridlock on local roads at peak times. Parents use cars to transport their children to school (often in large vehicles). This is a fact which planners seem to ignore. The surgery will also have to expand. I have real concerns about what this area will look like in a few years time and the problems we will have in getting from A to B. Will our local villages lose their identities and be merged in to one conurbation between Havant and Chichester? I hope not