Object

Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035

Representation ID: 537

Received: 24/01/2019

Respondent: Mrs Patricia Breakell

Representation Summary:

Concerns over allocation at Loxwood:
- sewage problems
- flooding
- dangerous roads
- use CPO to get land in other villages

Full text:

I was horrified to hear that the small village of Loxwood should absorb 125 houses when those being built at the moment cannot be served be the existing foul and surface drainage and another plot in the village plan have not even started because of the sewage problems.
Some house s still flood and Southern water have said they have no immediate plans to solve these problems.
The local roads within the village are dangerous at times particularly when children are being delivered and collected from school. The nearest main road to the village is the A281 which is totally inadequate to take more traffic and with no bus service and with no major employers within the village everyone has to use their cars to go anywhere.
The Council must think outside the box and if no land is offered by other equivalent villages then compulsory purchase should be considered.
I have lived in Loxwood since 1974, first on Plaistow Road towards Ifold and have now down sized to Spy Lane.