Please see below my objections to the allocation of new sites and houses in Loxwood:
- Loxwood is situated on the Surrey/West Sussex border, already there has been 50+ houses built within the past 24 months. In addition to this within the 3-mile surrey border there are approved plans for sites in development for 2000 homes.
- Loxwood has a much higher allocation than other service villages in the new plan and this has been done without any of those other villages needing a new call for sites.
- The Employment opportunities for Loxwood residents resides at around 40 jobs given the facilities the village has. This is matched by Kirdford who have no additional housing allocated as part of this proposed plan.
- Loxwood has a history of flooding given its streams and Canal. Additional houses will remove the grass area drainage and be replaced with hard surface run off areas. This increases the risk of flooding to the already existing community.
- A number of the already proposed sites have a large number of wildlife that reside in the area for example deer, bats and Owls have been seen in the proposed site behind Pond Copse Lane.