The Western Manhood's requirement for affordable housing is fully met, we understand.
In the first 4 years of the adopted Local Plan Birdham has provided 94 (79 in Neighbourhood Plan, 15 windfall) houses built, under construction, or with planning permission, 88% more than our requirement of 50. If we are required to build another 125, we would have a total increase of 220, which is an increase of about 33% on our pre Adopted Plan housing total. The total district requirement, using the proposed figures, seems to us to be about 20% for the whole district. It seems to us as unreasonable that Birdham should accept more than its share of the District burden, especially as these houses would have to be built within a few hundred metres of the Chichester Harbour AONB, a very small AONB already under enormous pressure. It seems to us that a reasonable number of houses for Birdham to be allocated in the review period would be 50, as that would keep our village's growth in line with the district as a whole.