Comment

Development and Site Allocations (DaSA) Local Plan - Options and Preferred Options

Representation ID: 22101

Received: 24/01/2017

Respondent: Mrs Julia Tutt

Representation Summary:

To not consider at all taking the campus back to being an institutional site as I would not have considered living here if the prison was still in use. It will devalue my house and make it unsaleable. Houses will ruin our semi-rural living and be detrimental to our quiet way of life. Our roads are quiet and we have lovely fields and walks plus plenty of wildlife. Our children will lose their outdoor playing space and our privacy will be lost in our gardens which are used more than the back. Traffic on Barnhorn Road needs addressing first!

Full text:

I have lived at Northeye for 15 years. I was attracted to how quiet it is here, the countryside and walks, quiet road with low traffic and space for my children to play which is a precious commodity. I in no way support the suggestion of the UAE becoming an institutional centre as I would not have purchased my house here if it was still being used that way. It un-nerves me when you say that depending on demand will depend on how it will be used. You should elaborate as what you are suggesting exactly especially with rumours that have been banded around in the last year. This would make my house virtually unsaleable and would greatly de-value it. I wouldn't feel safe living here or letting my children out to play. I would seek compensation if this was to go ahead. I would be very sad to see housing go ahead as this would change our living status totally with busy roads, playing areas for children would be built on, our outlook ruined by fields being replaced with houses, the quiet would go and the privacy we currently have would be gone as we use our front gardens. We have amazing wildlife with rabbits on our gardens, owls, wood peckers, badgers, foxes and bats that all come to our gardens. You keep taking our countryside and building on it and we will lose our semi rural way of life which is why I moved here. The other two options would be preferred and create much needed jobs. You are already allowing Barnhorn Green to go ahead with many houses, plus planning is in for another 30 houses on Barnhorn Road and so I can't see how Little Common can possibly take being developed even more. School? Doctors? Traffic? What do you propose to do to ease the traffic as it has doubled since the bypass opened? How are you going to manage entering the road from Barnhorn Road? How are you going to manage the traffic out onto Coneyburrow Lane which is already dangerous and worse with traffic using it as a cut through now at 60MPH? We have asked on numerous occasions to have bollards erected on Barnhorn Road so that we can cross safely to the bus stop but have always been refused, the sheer volume of traffic now makes it even harder to cross and is dangerous. There must surely be some consideration if housing goes ahead to keeping our area similar and by building further into the campus than opposite Wartling Drive.The question of design of the properties should be sympathetic to what is already here as the new houses I have seen being built are eyesores! There are protected trees on this land and I also hope that the wildlife people look into badger sets etc to protect our animals. It is sad that you are taking away so much land in Bexhill to build houses and affordable housing is a fast as no developer will sell houses cheap if they don't have to. Affordable is take the price right back to ten years ago and then that is affordable.