Building a housing estate on the field behind Spindlewood is totally unacceptable.

There are brownfield sites within Rother that are more suitable. Isn't Spindlewood
greenbelt? Aren't brownfield sites preferred over green? Doesn't it state in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) paras 17, 89 and 111 that a brownfield site should always be preferred over green.

As mentioned in a previous question the field floods along the bottom, we've had hardly any rain so far this season and already it's boggy underfoot.

What about access? Presumably the builders lorries will drive down Meads Road which is itself unstable and all the other roads are unadopted and unsuitable for heavy vehicles.

Single access from Spindlewood is not sufficient.

If planning were to proceed it would have a huge impact on everyone living in the area, not just Meads Road but all the surrounding roads. When people realise that they can't get out at the Meads Road/Cooden Sea Road junction they will use the neighbouring roads of Maple Walk and Maple Avenue as a rat run to avoid the congestion.

The old Co-op site has plans for 9 residential flats, 11 residential parking spaces and 3 retail shops for which according GTA civils executive report deliveries will be made within the lay-by or within Meads Road. The lay-by is rarely empty so one must assume all deliveries will be made in Meads Road. The report finishes with 'Overall there are no unacceptable highway or transport impacts as a result of the proposed development'. Well the builders lorries wanting to access Spindlewood won't be able to get through for one! What with the delivery lorries, blue badge holders and the take a chancers all parking at the top of Meads Road sometimes you can barely get a car through let alone a lorry! Incidentally where will these lorries turn round having made their deliveries?

If planning should go ahead what safeguards are in place to ensure that the central
green is not developed.

Have all the old oak trees on the site had preservation orders put on them?