I certainly do not agree with the proposed development of the site off of Spindlewood Drive. I think it is a very bad idea as Spindlewood Drive is a narrow, residential road with parking of large vehicles at the entrance to Spindlewood Drive. This would prohibit any large construction vehicles being able to turn into the road during the construction period.

Even worse is the access to Spindlewood Drive from Meads Road, where there is already parking on both sides of the road — even at the entrance to Meads Road, which is double yellow-banded. Of course, as usual no-one does anything about the violation of illegal parking. Does the Council intend to make both Meads Road and Spindlewood Drive double yellowing parking with the necessary enforcement procedures required to ensure that no parking violations occur?

Meads Road is already suffering from degradation of the road surface with residents fearing that heavy construction vehicles and additional traffic from the proposed Spindlewood Drive site would only make the matter worse. Residents have already reported that their homes and Meads Road itself shakes when large vehicles, such as dustcarts, pass over the road. The use of heavy construction vehicles during the building stage could even lead to the road collapsing and having to be reinforced. This would, of course, be a huge expense to the Highways Authority and great
inconvenience to local residents.

If the proposal of 160 houses in Spindlewood Drive goes ahead, this would result in additional numbers of vehicles using both Spindlewood Drive and Meads Road with the ensuing chaos of vehicles trying to turn out of Meads Road onto Cooden Sea Road into Little Common. There would then be further chaos at the roundabout at Little common with the extra traffic coming from the new Barnhorn Green site of 350 plus houses. This would create a total pinch-point into Little Common effectively destroying the whole village.

New residents may decide not to use Meads Road but to turn right at the end of Spindlewood Drive into Maple Walk, which is an unadopted, extremely narrow road. This could lead to a total impasse of vehicles along this road. Maple Walk is already paid for by the residents and they should be compensated for any future wear and tear caused by extra vehicles from the proposed site if the development goes ahead.

Any social housing on the Spindlewood site would be totally out of keeping with
surrounding properties.

The local primary school in Little Common is already at breaking point and cannot accommodate any more young children.

Local GPs and the pharmacy in Little Common are greatly overstretched with the pharmacy dealing with over 800 prescriptions per day. They certainly could not deal with even more people moving into this fast becoming overcrowded part of East Sussex.

The proposed site is already home to several rare species of newts and fen raft spiders and despite the developer saying that he has carried out surveys and is taking them into account when building, I very much doubt that many of these species will remain unharmed.

There are already known problems with flooding at the bottom of the field off of Spindlewood Drive and building these homes will not improve that situation.

Air pollution levels around Little Common are close to breaching safety levels and certainly the addition of many more vehicles could lead to these levels rising to danger levels to all local residents.