As a resident of Hunston I completely object this plan by CDC to build 200 houses in the village of Hunston. The village simply cannot take this amount of added houses. Furthermore, they are planned to be built on arable land, much too close to Ancient Woodland & would almost join Hunston to Mundham. The traffic on the Peninsula is already at capacity. Adding 200 houses will most certainly add at least 400 more cars in the village. Advising that Church Lane can be one of the access points for the new housing is of particular worry. Not only is it already difficult to get out of the Lane , it is a conservation area. The Lane is exactly that, a Lane. It already sees high volume of traffic from residents, dog walkers, church goers & farm machinery & vehicles. Add to this number the further houses planned for Selsy & Pagham, CDC are suggesting that they are happy to add approximately 1700 new cars all meeting at the roundabout north of Hunston. Since the opening of the new Free School traffic has obviously become considerably worse. I have to regularly queue, dangerously on the roundabout on the A27 & on 3 occasions have witnessed the emergency services struggling to get through.
It appears that there has also been no thought given to education. The local schools are at capacity & there is certainly no space to build any more. This will only add to the current traffic problems & increasing air polution further.It is noted that among those houses to be built Hunston is to see more social housing. Hunston already has the highest percentage of social housing in the area.
In 2018 a study carried out by CDC identifies that Hunston can only take a small amount of developement. 200 houses is not small. How does CDC reach its conclusions? Every aspect of this plan has given no thought to the environment, sustainability, transport, services & especially no thought to the residents of Hunston. Further to this there is no evidence of housing needed.