East Wittering/Bracklesham is a relatively inaccessible small coastal settlement with no secondary or higher education provision, few employment opportunities and no access to the railway network. It is positioned at the bottom of what can only be described as a cul-de-sac, squeezed by the sea to the south and the A27 to the north.

Any accessibility to access important facilities - senior schools, sports centres, and places of employment is via the A286 to the A27. This one road is unreliable, it is gridlocked throughout the high tourism season. Add to that, when there is an accident and subsequent road closures, households only diversionary routes are country lanes not built for high traffic volumes- an example being the serious and distressing accident on Saturday 2/2/2019 at around 11am. There were two further subsequent accidents on the country lanes and no household could get to or from East Witterings without queuing in heavy traffic. Please see attachment google map taken at 14:00 on 2/2/2019.

This area contributes to the £141m annual tourism revenue from the Manhood Peninsula by attracting holiday makers and the ever increasing stay vacation economy with Its small-scale low-key seaside village character and being in the close vicinity of protected local natural wildlife areas and the blue flag beach.

Many of the new developments are promoted by developers to Londoners for second homes. What is needed is affordable housing for the local community out priced from the local housing market. Merely building homes is not the answer. A focus has to be on affordable housing for the local community.

Common sense dictates that building more homes on a cul-de-sac, on land which is close to sea level and considering the Environment Agency stating that climate change is causing sea levels to rise, with one escape route via the congested A286; this is a humanitarian disaster just waiting to happen.

Any further housing developments within this Plan area are ridiculous. However if CDC's hands are fully tied by Westminster as the District's Leader has stated alongside his Cabinet Member for Planning, replace 'a minimum of 350 dwellings' with a 'maximum of 350 dwellings' and ensure that any development is in keeping with the seaside village character on which the area's economy depends