Having experienced flooding in my house direct from the run off from Highgrove into Brooke's Lane five years ago, I am writing to express my deep concern about this development & its impact on the waste removal from this part of upper Bosham. The existing system is already overloaded taking effluent as it does from Funtington & the proposals to deal with the added pressure from the large number of new houses is quite inadequate.
The development will markedly decrease the absorbancy of rain water & the hard standings etc will increase runoff into the drains further exacerbating the situation.
The field is grade 2 agricultural land & if the Coronid virus scare has taught us anything it should be to treasure what food we can grow for ourselves. How much more use to the community that land would be as allotments, with 10 or 20 3 bedroom houses for sale to local people, either already resident in the area or the children/grandchildren of such.
There are many other reasons to BEG you to review your plans in the context of global warming (demanding better choice of materials); night sky disturbance (demanding serious controls on the type of lights to be used & for how long at night); Chichester Harbour water quality degradation (demanding serious control of effluents & run-off & the extreme decline in native species in West Sussex in my lifetime (I am 81).