Site BX116 (Spindlewood Drive)

Infrastructure

Further to receiving details of your proposed building of many houses off Spindlewood Drive in
Little Common, I would ask you to read through my following comments:-

1. The position of this site and access to it are totally unacceptable both to residents and visitors
to Little Common. The access road via Meads Road and Spindlewood Drive is very narrow
causing a bottleneck for traffic in and out of Meads Road even now before building
commences. Once builders' lorries, builders and all the people connected with so many
houses being built as well as the new residents in the houses it will become a great deal worse
causing severe delays. It has always been a fairly quiet road and is used by children and
adults alike. It would seem there is no other access from Little Common apart from people
using Maple Avenue and Maple Walk from the other side of Spindlewood Drive where the road
in Maple Walk behind Hazelwood Close is extremely narrow.

2. As a resident of Maple Avenue, residents are extremely concerned that our road will become
a 'rat run' for traffic trying to avoid Meads Road. Maple Avenue and Maple Walk are both
unadopted roads which are totally unsuitable for extra traffic. They both have residents
associations who keep them in good order and have to pay for all maintenance and regular
resurfacing. However, it is impossible to keep them up to Council standards which would be
prohibitively expensive for residents and would be vital should such a development take place.

3. The local school for Little Common, Little Common Primary School, is already operating with
far more children than it was originally built for. Dreadful access to the school off Cooden Sea
Road during term time and at various times of the day is nothing less than appallingly dangerous.
Extra local children could not be safely accommodated. This needs to be urgently investigated
with or without the building of more houses.

4. Drainage on Site 116 is extremely poor and residents backing on to the site already suffer from
exceedingly wet gardens. This would need to be urgently reviewed before building could
commence.
5. Other sites which have applied for planning permission under the Government edict that Bexhill
should build over 3,000 new homes would be far more suitable and must be considered before Site
116 (Spindlewood Drive). The Northeye site is already a brownfield site so would immediately
come to mind ahead of sites such as Site 116 which is most certainly a 'greenfield' site which helps
lend Little Common its peaceful and rural reputation. It is most definitely not a suitable place for
building the proposed number of houses. I understand that a further site is under consideration off
the new bypass which will eventually run to the A21 . There is ample room for new schools and all
other facilities there as well as large scale housing well away from alt the other problems which
already exist in Little Common.

I would urge you please to consider my comments.