Comment
Development and Site Allocations (DaSA) Local Plan - Options and Preferred Options
Representation ID: 22038
Received: 04/01/2017
Respondent: Mr Charles Coombes
Use Brownfield sites.
No development on the Pevensey Levels.
Improve the A259 before any development.
Create Green Barriers.
Make provision for the changing population.
Encourage any development to be sustainable and carbon neutral. Solar Tiles on all roofs and with a battery to allow them to go off line.
Is all of this development needed? Where are these people going to work?
I feel that the A259 needs a vast improvement or re-routing before any developments occur. the congestion at Little Common is making the use of 'Rat Runs' the norm and roads such as Sluice Lane and Herbrand Walk are at present NOT coping with the increased traffic.
If any of these developments go ahead and the demographic of Bexhill changes there will not be enough school places for additional pupils.
There needs to be a Green Barrier created between Hastings and Bexhill and Bexhill and Eastbourne.
The Pevensey Levels do this well at present and any encroachment onto this area of ecological importance should not be allowed.
Brownfield sites should be the first to be developed and for residential use, they would improve the urban environment and provide Affordable homes.