The group of so called "North villages" once formed part of the Petworth district. Petworth has enormous potential to offer easily all of this housing requirement in a sensitive development to the South-west of the current town. The town, could be regenerated and provide all including the aging population of the area, with a great place to live, that absorbs most of the outlined pressures of a balanced solution.

The plan for Loxwood has not realistically assessed the villages suitability or capability to accommodate this huge increase in housing numbers and only refers to an already over subscribed health-centre as the main attribute. I don't believe that sustainability was seriously considered in reaching your numbers and aspirations of this scale. I need not remind you Loxwood does not currently have a village shop and lacks any major employment opportunities. Therefore only a car journey of not much under a minimum of 30 minutes each way, one hour in total is needed to facilitate this and if Crawley is your destination this can be doubled. The location of Loxwood is remote and requires using a transport method that is not aligned with the climate emergency on a road network that quite frankly is seriously lacking!